Building Connection with Your Child: 4-Week Parenting Workshop
Parents and caregivers will learn how to teach, mentor, coach and connect their child by gaining a basic understanding of their own caregiving patterns, how to build nurturing connection, and how to implement corrective parenting strategies. Participants will leave armed with tools, knowledge, and new ideas to implement in the home. This training is meant for any parent that has a child that struggles with behavioral outbursts and non-compliance and wants to correct while enhancing the parent-child relationship.
Curriculum is based on the Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®) Correcting Principles Class Series, a focus on learning skills to help children learn social and behavioral competence though attachment-based parenting strategies that enhance your understanding about how to interpret behavior and respond appropriately.
WHAT IS TBRI®?
TBRI® offers practical tools for parents, caregivers, teachers, or anyone who works with children, to see the “whole child” in their care and help that child reach his highest potential. TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the complex needs of children.
WHEN: Wednesdays, October 12 – November 2, 2022 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm (4 weeks)
WHO: Parents and caregivers of children or teens
WHERE: Virtual, link will be sent to participants
COST: $50/week for individuals, $75/week for couples (strongly encouraged in 2-parent homes), free for military with proof of eligibility
- payment plans and/or discount available based on need
- includes a workbook
- workshop is kept small to assist in personalizing interventions
- no show/late cancellation fees will apply
REGISTER: Call 512-451-7337, option 8 or email frontoffice@samaritan-center.org
Registration Deadline: October 6, 2022
Facilitator:
Kamini Verma, LCSW-S, RPT-S is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Supervisor and a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor. She completed the TBRI® Practitioner and Educator training in 2014 and for the past 12+ years has specialized in working with children and adolescents. Kamini supports families on issues related to healing from trauma and abuse, creating home stability, adoption/foster care, attachment, ADHD, depression, and anxiety.
Couples Workshop: Creating a Healthier Relationship, a Two-Hour Workshop
This two-hour workshop for couples will discuss the most important things you need to know about creating a healthy and committed relationship.
In this workshop you will learn:
- Five foundational principles of a committed relationship
- Two fundamental pillars of a healthy relationship
- Four things you never want to do in your relationship, and the things to do instead
- The one skill to dramatically improve communication
- How to have a check- in conversation and not a check-up conversation
- And more helpful resources!
Each workshop is limited to 4 couples so reserve your spot soon.
Note: This workshop is not appropriate for couples with a history of domestic violence, alcohol or substance abuse (unless in recovery), ongoing infidelity, or an untreated serious or chronic mental disorder.
WHEN: 1st Saturday of each month, 10:00-12:00 pm
WHO: Couples (both partners must attend)
WHERE: Virtual, link will be sent to participants
COST: Sliding scale based on need and free for military-connected individuals (veteran, service member, or family member) with proof of eligibility, up to $50/couple
REGISTER: Call 512-451-7337, option 8 or email frontoffice@samaritan-center.org
Facilitator:
Don Zappone, LPC assists clients in identifying and making needed changes by providing them with insight and appropriate skills. He works with persons experiencing anxiety, depression, anger, relationship difficulties, and spiritual issues. Don is a Licensed Professional Counselor.
Women’s Healing Trauma Group: For Survivors of Sexual Assault or Domestic Violence Trauma
Research has shown that trauma has profound effect on the lives of trauma survivors. These effects include not only damage to the survivor’s mental health, but also to her physical health. This support group will address both of these areas.
Group members will participate in group discussions guided by a workbook entitled Help End Abusive Relationship Tendencies (HEART) that focuses on issues survivor’s deal with after the occurrence of personal violence. The group will learn and experience somatic exercises using Peter Levine’s book, Healing Trauma, as a guide. Levine uses his somatic experiencing exercises to reconnect with the body and release the trauma energy stored there. The group will learn and experience a new exercise each week. The group is designed to offer survivors opportunities for personal growth as they work toward healing their trauma(s).
WHEN: Wednesdays, 5:00 - 6:30 pm
WHO: Woman survivors of sexual assault or domestic violence trauma
WHERE: Virtual, link will be sent to participants
COST: Sliding scale based on need and free for military-connected individuals (veteran, service member, or family member) with proof of eligibility, up to $50/session
REGISTER: Call 512-451-7337, option 8 or email frontoffice@samaritan-center.org
Co-facilitators:
Rochelle Pearce, LPC: Rochelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor with extensive experience working with survivors of abuse and sexual assault and the associated judicial process. She strives to instill hope and understanding of the meaning in our experiences and the purpose to our lives. She is a proud wife of a US Army veteran.
Cristina Mata: Cristina is a Mental Health Peer Specialist. She is a Marine Corps (Ret.) veteran. Since retirement, Cristina has earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and Spanish from St. Edward’s University and is currently finishing a master’s degree in counseling from St. Edward’s University.
Parent Support Group
Are you concerned about your child’s behavior?
Do you wonder about how to respond to your child in certain moments?
Do you feel stressed?
Just want to touch base with other parents?
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
We offer a safe and supportive environment for parents and caregivers to come together and discuss their experiences with raising children. Meet with other parents in an online parenting support group to share concerns and ideas. The group is facilitated by an experienced therapist who sees both children and adults and has raised children of her own.
WHEN: 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month, 5:30 – 6:30 pm
WHO: Open to anyone in a parenting role
WHERE: Virtual, link will be sent to participants
COST: $25/session per family (individual or couple) with sliding scale based on need; free for military-connected individuals with proof of eligibility
REGISTER: Call 512-451-7337, option 8 or email frontoffice@samaritan-center.org
Facilitator:
Nelda Carpenter, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been with Samaritan Center since 1998. She has many years of experience working with diverse populations of children, teens, and adults. She feels goals are best met when physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects are considered in the therapeutic process. Nelda draws from a variety of counseling theories in her practice. She works with many issues including grief and loss, trauma, abuse, marital issues, anxiety, depression, bipolar, and healing from divorce or personal hurts in families and churches. She utilizes hypnosis and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and she uses play therapy with children as young as two years of age. She recognizes the importance of laughter in healing and, when appropriate, introduces fun into therapy. Nelda has served on the state board of Texas Association of Play Therapy.