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Post Institute Speakers
The Post Institute often receives requests from various mental health and child welfare organizations for speaking engagements on key topics related to attachment, bonding, and the family dynamic. In order to provide better service in this area, we have coordinated an exceptional team of Family-Centered therapists available for speaking engagements and have listed their information below as well as their honorariums and sampling of lecture topics.
Please call 866-848-7678 or email
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Eric Guy, LSW
Eric is the owner and director of Center for Victory based in Beaver Falls, PA. He is a nationally recognized specialist in the treatment of behavioral and emotional disturbances of children, adults, and families. Mr. Guy currently lectures around the country and provides expert
consultations on various topics including foster care and adoption;
trauma; attachment and bonding; and
residential treatment. These lectures
are intended to increase success for
families and agencies.
Through the therapeutic process, Mr.
Guy's goal is to use the knowledge
and experience he has gained to help
one increase feelings of security,
address issues and reach new
conclusions about his or her life
experiences.
Individuals and families are provided
with intensive customized
programming that empowers the
individual or family's awareness and
understanding of dysregulation in
today's world.
Presentations & Workshops for Agencies:
* 7 Steps to Creating Successful Foster & Adoptive Placements *
This presentation assists agencies in developing effective strategies designed to create successful placements for adoptive and foster care children. Keep children from falling through the cracks!.....Full day 5½ - 6 hours.
* Improving Parent/Provider Relations Overnight *
Building and maintaining a positive relationship with the families of children in your care is essential. Learn how to more effectively commu- nicate with parents, encourage a higher rate of participation and elimi- nates common difficulties. This gives your agency and those you serve the greatest opportunity for success........ Full day 5½ - 6 hours.
* Successful Community Outreach in Less Time *
This seminar helps agencies refocus on the key elements of their agency. Learn how to become a more successful organization by adding credibility and value to your community and those you serve.....Full day 5½ - 6 hours.
* Beyond Achieving: Making Good Teams Great! *
This intensive seminar is designed for agencies determined to go to the next level. Learn how to increase individual productivity and responsibility, strengthen teamwork and communication, improve morale, and retain employees that are excited about coming to work.... 2 Full days.
* Managing U: Effective Approaches for Stress Management *
This presentation provides more than helpful tips. Learn how to restore the vital functioning of the mind, through interactive learning. Participants examine and apply techniques designed to control information overload, increase productivity and improve relationships on and off the job.......
Full day 5½ - 6 hours or 2 Full days.
Presentations & Workshops for Parents:
* Immediate Healing For the Reactive Attachment Child *
For parental and therapeutic success, understanding attachment is vital. Learn the parenting and therapeutic tools necessary to deal effectively with the attachment challenged child.... Half day: 2½ - 3 hours or full day 5½ - 6 hours.
* How To Become a More Effective Parent *
Parents who are able to alleviate some of the most common difficulties in child rearing will experience peaceful homes. This presentation is designed for parents searching to expand their knowledge of the their children and assist them in developing to their fullest potential............. Half day: 2½ - 3 hours or Full day 5½ - 6 hours.
* 7 Steps to a Peaceful Home *
This presentation is designed to further expand your ability as parent to become the primary catalyst for change and healing in your home. You will challenge old ways of thinking and learn how to connect with all your family members in a whole new way........ Full day 5½ - 6 hours.
* 5 New Ways to Heal Your Marriage Today *
Marital relationships are becoming increasingly more challenging and competitive. Couples will learn how to become more effective in resolving conflict and most important, to connect..... Full day 5½ - 6 hours.
* Overcoming Learning Disabilities *
Acknowledge your child’s struggle, understand the struggle, and learn how to increase their understanding allowing them to develop to their fullest potential..........Half day: 2½ - 3 hours.
* Addressing the 10 Most Important Needs of Foster & Adopted Children * This presentation highlights the understanding and needs of adoptive and foster children. Learn how to create a supportive environment and build upon the unique strengths of these children........... Full day 5½ - 6 hours.
*HONORARIUM: $3500 a day
*(does not include expenses)
Please call 866-848-7678 or email
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Theresa Caroll Murch, MS., LPC
Theresa is an affiliated therapist with the Post Institute for Family-Centered Regulatory Therapy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She has been extensively trained with the Post Institute and has worked as one of the team therapist with Dr. Bryan Post in parent, family and professional camps. She is the Program Director of The Post Institute for Attachment and Healing Group Homes Virginia, Inc. Theresa is the Marketing and Program Development Director, as well as the Director of Therapeutic Day Treatment Services for Children’s Services of Hampton Roads/Carpe Diem of Virginia Inc. She is registered at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute in California for 2007 to obtain a Doctorate of Clinical Psychology with a specialty in Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology.
Theresa received a Master’s of Science degree from Texas A & M University- Commerce and is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in the State of Texas. She is trained in Family-Centered Regulatory Therapy. Theresa has over 25 years of experience in loving, caring, and empowering at-risk youth and their families. She began her career as a Therapeutic Foster Parent in residential children’s home and most recently as the Comprehensive Services Act Program Administrator serving as a Community Planning Management Team (CPMT) member, and leading the Family Assessment Parenting Team (FAPT) for the City of Portsmouth, Virginia. She continues her work with at-risk youth in many different arenas including presenting and training at professional conferences and seminars.
*HONORARIUM: $3500 a day
*(does not include expenses)
Please call 866-848-7678 or email
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Dawn Wadiak, PhD(c), NCC
Dawn Wadiak, Ph.D(c), NCC, is the Founder and Director of The Attachment and Trauma Institute. In seeing the need within the mental health field for a deeper understanding of attachment, prenatal and perinatal psychology and somatic psychology, Dawn pioneered The Attachment and Trauma Institute in January of 2007 in Richmond, Virginia. The Attachment and Trauma Institute provides intensive In-Home Counseling, Out-patient Counseling, Regional and National Certification Training and Education to community agencies, schools and non-profit organizations. “Nearly 800,000 children enter the foster care system in America each year. Out of that number each child on average will experience 3-5 placements prior to adoption. Add to this statistic the fact that as a nation we are nearly doubling the juvenile detention and residential placement rates nearly every year. It’s time to gain a greater understanding into the core issues driving severe behaviors in adolescents. It’s time to admit that as professionals we have been lured into ‘managing’ mental health needs rather than providing genuine healing to families is crisis.”
Over the past decade Dawn has worked as a Child and Family therapist and a highly skilled crisis response counselor in various settings including intensive in-home therapy, hospital trauma units, domestic violence shelters, drug rehabilitation facilities and crisis pregnancy centers. Her passion to make a difference in the lives of families in the Northeast inspired her to pioneer city-wide youth programs designed to reach troubled adolescents. As a trained Post Institute Family-Centered Regulatory Therapist, Dawn is active in educational lectures, consulting and coaching for The Post Institute to families and professionals across the United States.
Dawn is currently in a doctoral program at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California where she is working to earn her Doctorate of Philosophy in Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology. Her interest in the areas of early life trauma, attachment and somatic psychology has prompted her current studies. Dawn has two Master of Arts degrees from the School of Psychology and Counseling and the School of Divinity at Regent University, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Presentations & Lectures:
* Understanding Severe Behaviors in Children *
For parental and therapeutic success, this full day lecture uncovers the root causes of severe behaviors in children. In addition, attendees will learn the following:
- Why anger is necessary to survival.
- The impact of stress and trauma on the developing brain.
- What fear has in common with stress and severe behaviors.
- A guaranteed effective, step-by-step technique for overcoming lying.
- The connection between stealing, self-mutilation, hoarding and addiction.
- How to understand the “Child Addict.”
- How to use a love-based consequence model for severe behavior.
- How traditional consequences are fear based and can do more harm than good.
- What is truly at the root of defiance.
- Why control as we’ve learned it causes more power struggles.
- How to create the “Therapeutic Environment” without a lifetime of therapy.
- Specific steps to immediately impact your child’s positive outlook on life.
- Specific parenting techniques that foster love and openness, and the ones that create more stress and fear.
* Foundations for Foster Parents and Placements *
For both agencies and parents this half day lecture gives clear steps based upon The Family Trauma and Attachment Assessment; designed to support agencies in creating successful placements for adoptive and foster care children. This presentation challenges agencies to take a “Preventative” step in the planning stage as opposed to “Treatment” at the verge of a failing placement.
* Nine Needs of Foster and Adopted Children *
This half day presentation gives an understanding of the basic needs of foster and adopted children. Learn what is essential within the home and therapeutic environment in order to create healing in the life of the child. This is an excellent resource training for Parent Support Groups.
* Trauma and the Body Mind System
Prenatal and Perinatal Trauma – How the Past Effects the Present *
This lecture is designed to give agencies and parents a clear understanding of how the mind and body are connected. With this understanding parents and professionals will gain both understanding and awareness into a child’s behaviors and the direct correlation to past significant traumatic events.
**This presentation can be adapted to both a full day and half presentation.
*HONORARIUM: $3500 a day
*(does not include expenses)
Please call 866-848-7678 or email
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Beverly Kyer, CSW, ACSW
Beverly has a Masters Degree in Social Work. She is in the Academy of Certified Social Workers; Post Graduate certifications and two plus decades of experience in: Integrated Approach to Readjustment Counseling; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Social & Independent Living Skills; Social Research; Employee Assistance Program Coordinator. Middle and Senior Management; Facilitative Leadership training; The Coaching Edge; Diversity, a Multicultural Approach; Developing Trainers; Beverly Kyer brings 30 years of insight and experience in the field of human development working in Federal, County, State, public and private organizations.
In the mid eighties, Beverly Co-Founded a Women’s empowerment and leadership development Group that has multiplied and is still in existence today.
Beverly Kyer has a passion for encouraging, empowering and equipping adults and youth to realize and develop their personal potential and life goals. Her vision as a professional trainer, coach and facilitator stretches to internationally impact corporations and organizations to improve performance and succeed in their missions.
Beverly is an affiliate with Leadership Development Group Inc. LDGI is driven by a talented team of enthusiastic and caring professionals, who are dedicated to the client's success. LDGI is a world class resource for assessments, personal leadership and organizational development.
TOPICS OF LECTURE:
" The impact of Trauma on Brain Development and Learning"
" Challenging Classroom Behaviors"
*HONORARIUM: $2500 a day
*(does not include expenses)
Please call 866-848-7678 or email
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Helene Messina-Timpone, LCSW
Helene Messina-Timpone recently founded the Institute for Child and Family Therapy Services, based in Charlotte, NC. This agency provides assessment, training coaching and consultation to families, therapeutic group homes and other human service agencies that care for children and adolescents with severe behaviors. Recognized for her work with aggressive and defiant adolescent girls, she has lectured nationally and is in the process of publishing her secrets for success in parenting teen girls, due February of 2007.
With over a decade of experience with various populations, public and private agencies and institutions, Ms. Timpone directed her frustrations for ineffective theoretical and programmatic deficiencies and practices into a quest for alternative methods. Arriving at the transcending paradigm created by Dr. Bryan Post in his Regulatory model, she began extensive training through his mentoring program and now functions as a team member in different capacities. Thus, the exuberance derived through the efficacy of combing updated research in the sciences, new age understandings and Dr. Post’s formula for healing has enlisted her passion to transform families and human service agencies through education, coaching and consultation.
Helene resides in North Carolina with her husband Nicholas, daughter Madison and provides guardianship of a teenaged girl named Jully. She has a Masters degree in Social Work from the State University of New York in Stony Brook, Long Island. She is in the process of obtaining her full Licensure for Clinical Practice and maintains her School Social Work Licensure in North Carolina. She is also a Member of the NASW.
TOPICS OF LECTURE:
These are Severe Behaviors in TEENAGED GIRLS, examined in each seminar.
THE BEHAVIORS: Lying, Stealing, Manipulation, Bullying, Aggression, Defiance, Withdrawal, Depression, Suicidal Thinking, Learning Difficulties, Addictions, Hoarding, Gorging, and Sexualized Behaviors.
Specific to the Parent
* Effective Strategies /The Core Understanding
Parenting the Teenaged Girl with Severe Behaviors - Full Day*
She is Difficult to talk with, Difficult to understand and Difficult to help. Parenting today’s Teenaged girl is challenging without the addition of disturbing behaviors. This seminar will provide, uplifting easy to understand material, illustrated by my own personal mistakes, growth and successes as well as others’.
1. EXAMINE- The root cause of her severe behavior/s, the neurological deficits imposed by natural development as well as the impact of stress and trauma on the developing brain.
2. LEARN- The behaviors and attitudes associated with normal development and how to support their growth. How to decrease and eliminate severe behaviors while you immediately impact her attitude without a lifetime of therapy.
3. UNDERSTAND- What methods taught by Professionals and used in our society can cause more harm than good. Or why they seem to work only on a short-term basis and can create power struggles.
4. ACHIEVE- the ability to identify and cease severe behaviors before they exist. Gain an understanding that will guide you in reclaiming a loving, supportive and open relationship with your Teen.
For the Professional (and Parent)
* Effective Strategies / The Core Understanding Working with Teenaged Girls and their Severe Behaviors - Full Day*
Whether you are a teacher, counselor, therapist or other helping professional working with difficult behaviors displayed by teen-aged girls and/or their parents this seminar will provide accurate, quick and effective methods for diminishing and eliminating disturbing behaviors. Through understanding the root cause of her severe behavior/s, the neurological deficits imposed by natural teen development as well as the impact of stress and trauma on the developing brain you will be able to effect change while strengthening your professional relationship and facilitating a stronger parent-teen bonding. Examine why many traditional methods cause power struggles, hurt relationships and never truly “fix” the problem. Finally, acquire and learn effective skills and techniques to immediately decrease and eliminate behaviors.
*This seminar is essentially the same as the above but targeted towards the audiences needs. If you combine parents and professionals please, let the presenter know.
Specific to the Parent and/or Professional
* The Great Behavioral Break Down - Full Day*
This is an extension of the Effective Strategies seminar that will further examine each of the above behaviors specific to Teenage Girls. This seminar is highly interactive and will assist you in apply the following to the her specific situation by:
- Examining intricate causes, conditioning and physiology to the specific behavior.
- How to identify and stop the behavior/s before they occur.
- Create consequences that will result in building a loving and trusting relationship.
- Apply the latest information neuroscience has taught.
- Teach her to take responsibility for the behavior.
- Learn how the application of this model will lead her asking you to ground them for the evening or they will simply ground themselves.
** The effective strategy seminar is a prerequisite to this is a full day seminar.
Specific to the GROUP HOME
Are you battling behaviors? Do you desire proven techniques that will create faster results? Are the interventions healing the root of the behavior? Learn how to implement proven strategies that will decrease your AWOL and Incident rates, increase employee moral and efficacy and raise the standard of treatment, setting you apart from your competition. The above seminars and their techniques have already been designed and proven to effectively meet the specific needs of residential programming and their success rates.
For ALL Parents
Note: This is not teen specific.
* Finding the Light: Parenting Beyond - Full Day*
Honoring Parents: This seminar is amazing as a gift to yourself and a group you are affiliated with or a gift to parents involved in a program you provide.
We all envision ourselves parenting our children (natural, adoptive and foster) beyond meeting the their basic needs. That vision is based on the mental notes we created through our own personal experience and consists of our parenting ideals or our do and do not list. This is our divine loving nature that ultimately seeks to inspire our future generations to obtain self-love, compassion towards others, the ability to surpass life’s challenges and live their dreams. This is a spiritually and science based, interactive and motivational seminar that will rejuvenate, inspire, and assist parents:
- Honor themselves with love.
- Enjoy the parenting journey and the process along the way.
- Reduce, calm and eliminate stress.
- Discover and live their parenting prophecy.
- Identify and overcome limiting thoughts, beliefs and hurts.
- Believe in Yourself: Be the light of consciousness.
*HONORARIUM: $2500 a day
*(does not include expenses)
Please call 866-848-7678 or email
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B. Bryan Post, PhD, LCSW
Dr. B. Bryan Post is the founder and CEO of the Post Institute for Family-Centered Therapy based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with other branch locations in Colorado and Virginia. The Post Institute specializes in working with adults, children and families who struggle with issues related to trauma, stress, attachment and bonding. Dr. Post is also co-founder of the Beyond Consequences Institute in Orlando, FL. A renowned clinician, lecturer, and author of several books, video, and audio programs, Dr. Post has traveled throughout the world providing expert treatment and consultation to a variety of groups. An internationally recognized specialist in the treatment of emotional and behavioral disturbance in adults, children and families, he specializes in a holistic family-based treatment approach that addresses the underlying interactive dynamics of the entire family, a neurophysiologic process he refers to as, “The secret life of the family.” Dr. Post contends that these same dynamics become obvious and are visibly apparent in every relationship.
He holds three degrees in the field of social work: a Bachelors of Social Work degree from East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma; a Masters of Social Work degree from the University of Texas at Arlington; and a Doctoral degree in Social Work from Columbus University School of Public Administration formerly located in Louisiana, now in Mississippi.
A maverick in the mental health field, Dr. Post broke from traditional teachings in the late 1990’s and developed a dynamic theoretical model of human behavior which he coined the Stress Model. When fully understood and applied to nearly any situation the stress model can reveal underlying unconscious expressive states which can transform relationship dynamics. From the Stress Model theory he has gone on to develop both Family-Centered Regulatory Parenting and Regulatory Therapy which both have been taught at the university level, garnering Dr. Post international recognition. Of noted interest is also the fact that Dr. Post has woven his therapy model into breakthrough educational experiences that are referred to as Intensive Attachment Training Boot Camps for adults, parents, and therapists. These rapid results programs have been changing the lives of struggling adults, parents, and families for the past several years.
The family-centered principles and concepts offered by Dr. Post have been taught to more than 25,000 parents and professionals with a 98% excellency rating.
He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Oklahoma and is registered to practice within various other states. He is a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology (ISCPP), and a Diplomate of the American Psychotherapy Association.
Dr. Post and his wife Kristi reside with their two daughters, Mikalah and Marley, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
*HONORARIUM: $10000 a day
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TOPICS OF LECTURES:
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Effective Strategies for Severe Behaviors in Children
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Effective Strategies for Attachment Disorder and Oppositional Defiance
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Effective Strategies in the School Setting; Exploring Alternative Classroom Management Options
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Understanding of Aggression, Anger, Defiance, and Depression
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Understanding of Depression, Self Mutilation, Eating Disorders, Promiscuity, and Defiance
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Understanding Cultural Diversity
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Understanding and Coping with Sexualized Behavior
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Understanding and Coping with Sibling Rivalry; As it relates to Attachment Challenges
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Exploring the Use of Medication vs Addressing the Root Causes of Behavior
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Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control
**** Other topics are available.
If you are interested in a topic that is not listed please email info@postinstitute.com with that information.
Please call 866-848-7678 or
email info@postinstitute.com to reserve your date.
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Post Institute for Family Centered Therapy
5700 SE 89th St
Oklahoma City, OK 73135
Office: (405) 737-3100
Toll Free: (866) 848-POST
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