Shewchuk-Dann & Associates Psychology Professional Corporation

Workshops

Please note that all our workshops, seminars and courses may be tailored to the population that you serve and the needs of your community. The following workshops have been offered on the past and are periodically offered.

Generally Workshops are divided into: 

  • "Workshops for the Child Therapist"
  • "Workshops for the Therapist working with Adolescents"
  • "Workshops for the Adult and Family therapist"
  • "Popular workshops tailored to First Nations"
 

Workshops for the Child Therapist

  • Counselling children 18 months to 6 years
  • Counselling children 2 to 12 years
  • Therapeutic Storytelling
  • Counselling Sexually abused children
  • Parent awareness of when children may require therapy
  • What is developmentally appropriate child sexual development 
  • When children act out sexually: abuse reactive children
  • Grief and loss
  • Counselling traumatized children - Developmental considerations
  • Working with children deemed to be "behaviour disordered"
  • Introduction to sand tray therapy
  • Introduction to Play Therapy, Intermediate play therapy, Advanced play therapy
  • Conducting bibliotherapy (including how to choose resources, sequence them, and use them for children with difficulties)
  • Teaching social skills
  • Interrupting posttraumatic play and sexually inappropriate behaviours
  • Solution-focused language in the work with children
  • Solution-focused approaches to working with children
  • Providing impromptu family therapy during family visits (including how to appropriately coach the family and how to teach families appropriate family behaviours).

Workshops for the Therapist Working with Adolescents

  • All of the Above Workshops as well as the following:
  • Developmentally useful counselling approaches with Adolescents
  • Developing Healthy Sexuality; including:
    • What is within the norm and outside of the norm;
    • Sexual abuse and how to promote healing;
    • What are personal boundaries?
    • Group participation in boundary exercises;
    • Safe sexuality; and
    • Safety in general
  • How to decide when professional intervention in needed and
  • How to choose a professional to work with

Workshops for the Adult and Family Therapist

  • Grief and loss
  • Working with sexual offenders
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), a research and treatment review
  • Complex PTSD and its treatment
  • Working with individuals with multiple traumas
  • Working with individuals with multiple concurrent problems
  • Working with individuals who have extreme difficulty in "trusting"
  • Spirituality and counselling
  • Working with First Nations Peoples/Multiculturism

Professional supervision

  • For all of the areas listed above

Please see First Nations page for Workshops geared toward the First Nations Community

Generally these workshops are geared towards counsellors in the field (e.g. Psychologists, Social workers, Clinical counsellors, etc). Participants must have a minimum of a Bachelors degree in an appropriate discipline.