Qualifications

Victim Stance - Externalizing Blame - Time Perspective - Power & Control - Grandiosity & Neurodevelopment Narcism - Awfulizing - Perfectionism - Procrastination - Lying by Omission - Emotional Reasoning

how to deepen the resilient zone for ourselves, our children and our families in order to create calm

Mindfulness for children

The seven core parenting principles that can lead to more effective parenting and increased confidence

Set your child up for success

Douglas Maughan is a leading expert in the brain and DBT. He created the Family Preservation Program, providing resources for families with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Douglas' expereince includes fifteen years working with Utah’s Division of Services for People with Disabilities working as a Case Manager, Supervisor, Clinical Director, Regional Director, and Associate Division Director. He is currently a clinical consultant for Daniels Academy in Utah. 

Including diagnosis, child trauma, past traumatic stress disorder and medication management

Vision Therapy helps people with visual difficulties relating to a wide range of conditions, skills, and/or symptoms, such as; ADD-ADHD, learning disabilities, non verbal learning disorder (NLD) and many more.

Home visits can be one of the most stressful and anxiety building steps for parents! In this session you will learn ideas and skills to create the best possible scenario for your home visits and best practice for medication administration. 

Controlling our emotions before they control us

The program for parents and mentors with teens or young adults in treatment

control, anger, rage, arguing and contention, lying and inconsistency, the traps of being critical and unforgiving, teenage retirement, rescuing, lecturing and insight, nagging, conditional love and acceptance, parental disunity, quick fix and making exceptions, misusing rewards and punishments, excessive or insufficient punishment, favoritism, surrogate spouse, scapegoat, guilt, unrealistic expectations and perfectionism, button-pushing and overreacting

Piaget's (1936) theory of cognitive development explains how a child constructs a mental model of the world. He disagreed with the idea that intelligence was a fixed trait, and regarded cognitive development as a process which occurs due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment.

limit setting, consistency, empathetic listening, family rules and making moments meaningful

What is ASD? The deficits and dysfunctions. undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, prevalence, ASD profile, strengths of ASD student, how to make it go right, goes and approaches of treatment

Learn to experientially focus on increasing your contextual and interpersonal awareness. Great for families looking to improve their communication and perceptual understanding. .

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us

What is the limbic brain? How it affects behavior and emotions in our children and how the limbic brain directs how we must manage these behavioral and emotional changes.

More in depth information on the limbic brains' implications to Neurological Development.

Where do the troubles start for middle school aged boys? What type of academic problems do middle school aged boys seem to have? What tips do you have for parents of boys and those working with boys? 

Growing alongside your child in treatment

How to deal with fear, guilt and worry, frustration, sadness, overwhelm and anxiety

Recognizing emotions in self and others, understanding the causes and consequences of emotions, labeling emotions accurately, expressing emotions appropriately and regulating emotions effectively

How to resolve the heart of conflict and how and why we contribute to the divisions and problems we blame on others and the surprising way that these problems can be solved