PRESENTATIONS + WORKSHOPS
I love sharing my work and engaging with various topics and ideas. Take a look at some of my presentations and speaking engagements and get in touch if you have an idea that you want me to present on or something you want to collaborate on.
Past Presentations
Train & Earn Youth Workforce Training + Staff Training
Client Crisis Planning and Management
Mental Health Referrals, Housing Referrals, and Otherwise
Trauma-Informed Case Management
Staff Expressive Arts for Team-building and Burnout
Healthcare Values and Burnout Prevention For New Healthcare Staff
Neither Here Nor Gone: Ambiguous Loss and Digital Presence in Modern Grief
Participants explored the intersection of digital memory and grief, considering resources like social media archives, saved messages, and AI tools and how they can influence mourning, connection, and closure. The session integrated psychological insight, ethical reflection, and experiential engagement. Participants examined how technology mediates presence and absence, comfort and confusion, and how meaning-making can emerge even when closure remains uncertain.
DEI Training International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Lagerschwestern ("camp-sisters"): Sisterhood and Survival, Looking at the Holocaust through the Lens of Gender. Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst.
Queering Jewish Parenthood with The Neighborhood. An exploration of Jewish 2SLGBTQIA+ pathways to parenthood
Is This Abuse? Using a Legal and Clinical Lens to Identify Markers of Abuse in the Narratives of Women. This workshop prioritizes listening to the narratives of women, aiming to answer the question, “Is this abuse?” from legal and clinical perspectives. Through an examination of women’s narratives, the event sheds light on their experiences. Additionally, we will touch on factors such as immigration status and disability as contributing factors to vulnerability. Hosted with the Domestic Violence Project.
Postpartum Support International's 2023 Conference; Postpartum Realities in a Polyamorous Landscape.
Polyamorous relationships are increasingly common and frequently overlap with the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Postpartum professionals must understand the bidirectional relationship of polyamory and postpartum to help these families thrive.
Maimonides Medical Center Presentations:
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Queering Perinatal Mental Health Queering Perinatal Mental From Pelvic Floor Therapy to Chestbinding; Expanding Resources & Support
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2SLGBTQIA+ Communities and the Perinatal Experience
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Client Care Post PMADs: Best Practices for the Multipara Client