Service Description

Strengthen your clinical toolkit with practical strategies for engaging parents and improving family outcomes. This training is designed for counselors, therapists, and helping professionals who want to integrate effective parent support into their work. Participants will learn evidence informed communication skills, family-focused interventions, and tools to navigate real-world challenges in the therapy room. Training objectives: 1. Understand Family Dynamics: Learn how to recognize patterns, stressors, and therapeutic approaches that strengthen family connections. 2. Support Parents Effectively: Gain practical tools to coach parents, improve communication, and foster collaboration in counseling sessions. 3. Apply Family-Centered Strategies: Walk away with actionable techniques to integrate family therapy and parent support seamlessly into your practice. Bio of presenter: Abbie Kelley is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and the founder of AMK Counseling. Abbie has over 15 years of experience working with clients of all ages, including kids, teens, adults and families. Her areas of specialty include family therapy, anxiety, complex anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, self-esteem, relationships. With a psycho-dynamic foundation, she incorporates strength-based and evidence-based treatment modalities to help clients find an approach that best suits their individual needs. AMK Counseling has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7277. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. AMK Counseling is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.