Attachment patterns only make sense when viewed through the lens of the nervous system. This session helps you recognize what's truly driving a child's responses—so your interventions support regulation before relationship repair.

• Nervous system cues that distinguish attachment distress from trauma responses and baseline temperament
• Guardrails for using attachment language without over-pathologizing neurodivergent or culturally diverse children
• Regulation-supportive responses that de-escalate survival states rather than intensify them
• A clearer clinical lens for choosing interventions that restore safety and capacity for connection

Get simple, high-impact strategies that help kids regulate big feelings, calm their bodies, and stay focused—no special equipment, no long explanations.

• Grounding and breathing techniques that build body awareness and steady emotional reactions.
• Coping tools that truly "fit" a child's sensory needs, intensity level, and developmental stage.
• Playful, sensory-friendly methods that boost focus, motivation, and emotional flexibility.
• Safe, structured outlets for anger that prevent escalation and support healthy release.

In this intimate fireside chat, Mona Delahooke, PhD is joined by her husband, Scott, and her longtime collaborator, Connie Lillas, RN, LMFT, PhD, for a personal conversation about how relationships, co-regulation, and neurodevelopment shape the inner worlds of children and teens—especially those who struggle to communicate what they're experiencing.

Following a life-threatening brain aneurysm, Dr. Delahooke's own recovery was guided by the very nervous-system-informed principles she has taught for decades. Her return brings rare depth to this work, grounded in both neuroscience and lived experience.

Together, they explore how body-to-brain pathways support regulation and therapeutic readiness, how neuroception and interoception inform our understanding of stress responses in kids, and how principles from the NeuroRelational Framework and coma research highlight the power of safe, simple, non-activating sensory-motor input. Video moments from Mona's recovery bring these ideas to life, offering clinicians a clear, human lens on supporting regulation and healing in children and adolescents.

Simple, science-based tools that help kids feel steadier, braver, and more in charge of their internal world:

• A sharper lens for spotting hidden anxiety behaviors often mistaken for defiance, distraction, or mood issues
• Language and metaphors that help kids talk about anxiety without shame or shutdown
• Engagement strategies to keep anxious kids participating even when avoidance kicks in
• Simple ways to involve caregivers, so progress continues outside the therapy room or classroom

When survival responses dominate, words alone often aren't accessible. This session explores how creative, body-based approaches can help restore regulation and connection for youth experiencing profound distress.

• A nervous-system-informed lens for understanding self-injury and suicidality as signals of overwhelm, not pathology
• Connection-first, regulation-focused responses that reduce fear and open pathways to safety
• Strategies for staying grounded and present amid intense emotions and high-risk moments
• Practical clinician wellness practices that support regulation, capacity, and long-term resilience

Explore a clear roadmap for digital-era stressors, healthy social development, and guiding teens toward safer, more grounded online-to-offline interactions.

• Patterns of digital communication shaping teen connection
• Signals of unhealthy online influence on mood, self-worth, and friendship dynamics
• Frameworks for supporting safe exploration of digital-age dating
• Kid-friendly language for explaining online pressure, comparison, and emotional overload
• Tools for strengthening boundaries, digital balance, and real-world social skills

This session cuts through the noise and gets real about what today's students are facing—and what adults can actually do about it to restore safety, regulation, and belonging within school environments.

You'll walk away with:

• Nervous-system-informed indicators for recognizing distress before it escalates into behavior or shutdown
• Regulation-supportive, trauma-responsive tools you can use immediately in classrooms and school settings
• Collaboration strategies that align schools, families, and clinicians around shared cues of safety and support
• Simple, regulation-based self-care resets to help you stay grounded, effective, and compassionate
• Culturally humble practices that promote felt safety and inclusion for diverse learners

Level 1 autistic youth are often missed precisely because their nervous systems work hard to adapt, mask, and perform. This session helps clinicians recognize subtle autistic presentations and adjust treatment to support regulation, safety, and authentic engagement.

• Key indicators of internalized, masked, or late-identified autistic traits across developmental stages
• Nervous-system and neurotype distinctions between autism, anxiety, ADHD, trauma responses, and giftedness
• Cognitive, sensory, and regulatory patterns that shape stress responses and therapy fit
• Practical adaptations across CBT, DBT-informed work, and visual or structured supports that align with autistic nervous systems

This session shows how ACT can support regulation and flexibility so students can re-engage with learning, relationships, and values despite anxiety.

In this session, you'll learn:

• Common patterns of school-based anxiety across developmental stages and neurotypes, viewed through a nervous-system lens
• ACT processes that promote grounding, psychological flexibility, and values-aligned action under stress
• Practical tools for unhooking from worry loops, avoidance cycles, and threat-based thinking
• Strategies that strengthen resilience across academic, social, and performance-related demands
• How reassurance traps, over-accommodation, and overcorrection can inadvertently reinforce survival responses

Generational trauma lives not just in stories, but in nervous systems—shaping how families respond to stress, conflict, and connection. This session offers a regulation-informed framework for understanding inherited patterns and supporting youth and families toward greater safety and stability.

• A clear, nervous-system-aware framework for differentiating generational trauma from acute, developmental, or situational stress
• Trauma-informed, shame-free conversation strategies that reduce defensiveness and increase felt safety for youth and caregivers
• Family-stabilization tools that interrupt survival-based patterns such as repetition, conflict, and emotional withdrawal
• System-level resilience approaches that support regulation, connection, and healing across the family unit

Gain the clinical insight you need to confidently navigate medication discussions and strengthen collaborative relationships with prescribers treating children and teens.

• Key principles behind responsible prescribing and therapist-prescriber collaboration
• Target symptoms, developmental factors, and safety considerations in medication decision-making
• Foundations of informed consent, including child assent and complex family situations
• Risks, limitations, and realities of research and off-label medication use

Gain a clear, practical understanding of how trauma shows up in school settings and what clinicians must recognize to support students with ACE-related challenges.

• Indicators of fight, flight, and freeze states in classroom and peer interactions
• Key findings from the ACEs study and relevance for school-based assessment
• Influences of poverty and mental health challenges on student functioning
• SEL-aligned supports that strengthen impulse control and conflict resolution