professional development for therapists

Workshops on different therapeutic modalities: Art Therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy, Gestalt Play Therapy,
​IMAGO Couple Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Psychodrama, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

current professional development offerings

I am offering the next round of my professional development workshops in Fall 2026. Each workshop is 6 sessions total.

Introduction to Psychodrama Interventions Professional Development 
Biweekly Wednesdays at 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EST
September 9-November 18, 2026
via ZOOM

Participants can expect to learn how to utilize these psychodrama interventions for adolescent and adult clients:
  • sociometric warmups (locograms, spectograms, etc.)
  • attachment and resilience timelines
  • social atoms
  • letter writing
  • roleplay/empty chair work

Each 80-minute session is $80. There is no refund for missed sessions. There will be a maximum of 8 participants. 

Email [email protected] to register.

previous professional development offerings

Keynote Speaker Series

Talks designed to meet your business, corporate, and school wellness goals: Attachment Theory, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Managing Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression, ​etc.

PREVIOUS speaking engagements

Conversations Corner Podcast Episode with Nashema Rocha

selected speaker & workshop partners

WELLNESS WORKSHOPS

ADULTS AND ADOLESCENTS

creative expression

Workshops on acting, drama games, improvisation, movement, playwriting, and/or creative writing.

dbt art therapy

Explores the tenants of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy: mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal skills through art making.

PSYCHODRAMA

Explores emotion regulation, family, relationships, self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-nurturing through the tenants of Psychodrama: sociometrics, timelines, letter writing, and roleplay.

CHILDREN

PLAY therapy

Explores self-awareness, emotions, polarities, self-acceptance, and self-nurturing through art, movement, sound, and storytelling.

SOCIODRAMA

Explores social issues using group dynamics, enactment, improvisation and psychodramatic techniques (i.e., doubling, role reversal, soliloquy, the mirror, and asides). Forum theatre and process drama techniques will also be utilized (i.e., corridor of voices, hot seat interviewing, thought-tracking, etc.).

wellness workshop rates

Lunch 'n Learn $300

1.5 hours maximum

Half-Day Session $600

3 hours maximum

Full-Day Session $1200

6 hours maximum

DBT Art Therapy workshop
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*Artwork shared with permission from participants

PSYCHODRAMA workshop gallery

*Photographs shared with permission from participants

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