Advanced Training & Professional Engagements

Trauma-Informed 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (RYT-200), pending 2025

Sound Practitioner, First Annual “Nurturing the Grieving Self” Event, February 2025
Provided Sound Healing/Sound Bath experiences to 50+ participants at the first annual Nurturing the Grieving Self: A Day of Wellness + Community Connections, facilitated by Common Ground Grief Center + Stephy’s Place and hosted at Brielle Elementary School.

Presenter, Supporting Our Children + Teens’ Mental Health, February 2025
Guest speaker/presenter providing a parent workshop centered on supporting children + teens’ mental health. This workshop includes review of statistics + trends, psycho-education on the nervous system + neurobiological underpinnings, teaching of actionable strategies to support emotion-regulation, strategies for effective communication, tips for finding a therapist for your child, review of community resources, recommended readings, practical applications of learned information and a Q+A portion. All participants received a “Parent Information Packet” containing an overview of the entire workshop for future reference.

Myofascial Cupping Practitioner, International Diploma, pending 2025
In depth training to educate practitioners on the theory & clinical application of myofascial cupping. Training includes education on research + effectiveness of myofascial cupping, various types of cups, contraindications, passive movement + glide cupping techniques, active + mobilization cupping techniques, myofascial cupping + neural mobilization and cupping to treat scars. Anatomical + physiological specifications for each cupping technique are reviewed in detail.

Sound Bath Practitioner Training, 65-hours, 2024
In depth experiential training allowing practitioners to discover how to utilize sound as a healing tool, guide and facilitate one-on-one & group sound baths, connect with community, learn through shared experience/review of research and deepen skills for holding a safe & healing space for the Self and others.

Clinical Applications of Internal Family Systems Therapy, 2024

Step-by-Step procedures for healing traumatic wounds and alleviating anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction & more through an Internal Family Systems lens.

Polyvagal Theory for Embodied Trauma Recovery
, 2024
This immersive training instills research-based somatic tools, yoga-based breath, movement, and awareness practices to reduce the burdens of trauma, anxiety, obsessive thinking, and feelings of hopelessness from the body and mind.

Guest Speaker for Social Work Career Panel hosted by Monmouth University Graduate & Undergraduate Schools of Social Work, March 2024

Four Blinks Version of Flash: An Open Approach to Trauma Reprocessing, 2024

Post-graduate Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies, 70-hours, 2023
This intensive post-graduate level certificate program consists of 32-weeks of immersion into the fundamental issues necessary to become an expert clinician treating adults and children who suffer from traumatic stress. This program bridges advanced research on PTSD and developmental trauma with today’s most optimal clinical methods, treatments and modalities to improve outcomes and help clients heal.

Polyvagal Theory In Clinical Practice, 2023
Exploration of the science behind Polyvagal Theory (PVT) & its implications for clinical practice. Application of PVT into a trauma-informed model of care. Engaging the nervous system’s parasympathetic response to support healing.

An Anti-Inflammatory Lifestyle, 2023
In depth analysis of how mind-body connections affect inflammation. Exploration of clinical implications of diet and an anti-inflammatory lifestyle habits as they relate to stress, anxiety, mood and sleep. Presented by Sally Fisher, MD, MS.

Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Basic Training, 50-hours, 2022
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Course, 11-hours, 2022
2-Day Conference: The Body Keeps the Score-Trauma Healing with Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., 2021
The Neurobiology of Trauma & PTSD, 2021
The Effects of Trauma Across the Developmental Spectrum, 2021
Family Treatment Approaches in Working With Trauma, 2021
Group Treatment Approaches in Working with Trauma, 2021
Supporting Youth with Disabilities in the Transition to Adult Life, 2021
Children's Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Incorporating Cultural Competence into Ethical Decision Making, 2021
Multidisciplinary Training on Domestic Violence, 2021
Hiding In Plain Sight: Working Together to Prevent Youth Suicide, 2021
The Nurtured Heart Approach, 2020
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder & Exposure Response Prevention: An Overview, 2020
Mindfulness, Healing and Transformation: The Pain and the Promise of Befriending the Full Catastrophe, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., 2020
Mindfulness Fundamentals, 16-hours, 2019

Managing ADHD in School: The Best Evidence-­Based Methods, 2019
Mindfulness Certificate Course for Treating Kids and Teens: Interventions for ADHD, Anxiety, Trauma, Emotional Regulation and More, 2018
Certificate: Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Children & Teens, 19 hours, 2017
Guest Speaker for Inter-professional Panel on Autism at the First Annual Inter-professional Research Conference, Monmouth University, 2016
Guest Speaker at the Youth GED & Career Pathways Program, Brookdale University, 2015