SMART Services

We provide Training, Consultation, Workshops and Keynotes. We have trained and consulted to hundreds of clinicians in the US and abroad. We currently work with home-based teams, residential treatment staff, outpatient clinic staff, early childhood staff and school counselors. Program directors appreciate the growth in skill and confidence they see in their clinicians. Clinical teams describe looking forward to meeting with us, feeling nurtured and fueled by the skillful, gentle and strengths-based focus taken by our consultants. See what participants have shared.

SMART Training

We offer both large trainings with open enrollment and individually customized trainings for agencies. Training groups typically range from 20-60 participants. You will learn how to weave 3 key targets: Regulation, Attachment-building, and Trauma Processing together, without relying on language as an entry point. In Trainings you will see amazing clinical work in which a coherent story and cognitive understanding of life events emerge as a result of full body engagement. You will experience and practice the elements of the therapy, building a useful framework for your work with children and caregivers.

Contact Heather Finn for more details: Email Heather Finn

Conference Presentation: “A SMART Approach to Transforming Childhood Trauma and Implications for Learning”
Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools Conference
Atlanta, Georgia
February 17, 2020
9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Heather Finn Presenting
https://creatingtraumasensitiveschools.org/conference/

Hong Kong SMART Foundations Training: February 20 – 21, 2020
Elizabeth Warner, EdM. Psy.D Presenting

Contact Info to get more details:
Email Chan Mei Siu: sm.chan@bgca.org.hk
Email Ma Chor Man: peace.cm.ma@bgca.org.hk

Keynote for BGCA Child Trauma Conference 2020: February 22, 2020
Hong Kong

Minnesota SMART Foundations Training: May 7 and 8, 2020
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Thursday and Friday)
Dakota Lodge
1200 Stassen Lane, West St. Paul, MN 55118
Phone: 952-891-7000

Contact info to get more details:
Local Host: Amie Summers: amie@organicintelligence.org

SMART Consultation

The Consultation Series builds on the framework learned in the 2-day intensive SMART training. In consultation, we integrate videotape review of therapy sessions, didactic presentation, and experiential exercises to enhance skills and deepen competency. This continued support post-training is key to better implement SMART with your clients or within your clinical setting.

We utilize a peer group format facilitated by an expert SMART consultant. Clinicians learn from their own cases and those of their colleagues. This format has proven to be highly effective in deepening team knowledge and retention of learning. Many clinicians describe SMART consultation as one of the most meaningful, rich clinical training experiences they have had at their place of employment.

Videotaping of sessions is an essential part of effectively implementing SMART treatment and developing your skill set as a SMART clinician through consultation. Through the videotape review process, clinicians learn how to track what a client’s body is communicating regarding regulation-seeking, attachment building and trauma processing. Reviewing video also supports clinicians to develop more effective intervention choices and treatment plans. Clinicians have a unique opportunity to reflect on choices made during sessions to evaluate their effectiveness, consider new interventions and develop tailored treatment plans with contribution from the whole team. In residential settings, group consultation enhances adoption of regulation strategies discovered via SMART to the child’s entire treatment team and family system. We are happy to work with you to identify the right format and frequency for your setting. Consultation is provided in-person and via HIPAA compliant web conferencing.

How to set up a SMART Consultation

To discuss consultation for your agency or interested in joining an existing consultation group and in SMART training offerings click on the link below to complete the form:
Group Consultation Interest Form

SMART Talks, Workshops, and Keynotes

Our staff present regional, nationally, and internationally on a variety of subjects pertaining to Developmental Trauma, children and families.

Interested in arranging for a Speaker or Workshop in your area?
Contact Elizabeth Warner at Email Elizabeth Warner

Sampling of Past SMART Presentations

Annual International Trauma Conference in Boston, MA 2009-2018
Chicago Center for Integration and Healing March, 2018
New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation January, 2018
North American Council of Adoptable Children, Nashville TN 2016
ATTACHConference, Ontario, Canada 2015
New Hampshire Association for Infant Mental Health. September 25, 2015.
Hong Kong Boys’ & Girls’ Club Conference, September 19, 2015.
ISTSS Pre-Meeting Institute, Los Angeles, CA., October 31, 2012
Zero to Three National Training Institute, Baltimore MD. 2011

What SMART Clinicians Say

“When I was watching my film, I noticed I was intuitively moving closer and then back….it was kind of a pattern. My client seemed to be responding to it well.” Supervisor: Could you now use that rhythm as a tool for difficult moments? “Yes, I think I could now that I saw what I was doing and how the client was responding.”

Therapist at Adolescent Residential Treatment Center

“We review film in a way that is less focused on the verbal content and more focused on what is happening in the room between people, spatially, rhythmically, and in terms of physical and emotional attunement…I would have no way of noticing and refining my own attunement…and would be less effective at modeling for caregivers and refining their ability to attune and respond to their child.”

Therapist, Outpatient Trauma Clinic

“I left my first consultation session with a deeper clinical understanding of my client’s struggles and how they played out in a SMART session, but more importantly, I learned more about myself and how I used, or needed to revise the use, of myself within the session, in a way that benefited my client.”

Program Director at Young Parent/Child Support Services Program

“As one can imagine, as the time approached to show my first clinical tape to a roomful of fellow clinicians, I was filled with fear and trepidation. Thankfully, my fears were not realized as the consultation began and I have to say that I experienced the first truly inspiring professional growth experience of my career. …. the SMART consultant helped to frame the session so that I felt immediately comfortable and at ease.”

Clinician, Outpatient Clinic

What SMART Clinicians Say

“When I was watching my film, I noticed I was intuitively moving closer and then back….it was kind of a pattern. My client seemed to be responding to it well.” Supervisor: Could you now use that rhythm as a tool for difficult moments? “Yes, I think I could now that I saw what I was doing and how the client was responding.”
Therapist at Adolescent Residential Treatment Center

“We review film in a way that is less focused on the verbal content and more focused on what is happening in the room between people, spatially, rhythmically, and in terms of physical and emotional attunement…I would have no way of noticing and refining my own attunement…and would be less effective at modeling for caregivers and refining their ability to attune and respond to their child.”
Therapist, Outpatient Trauma Clinic

“I left my first consultation session with a deeper clinical understanding of my client’s struggles and how they played out in a SMART session, but more importantly, I learned more about myself and how I used, or needed to revise the use, of myself within the session, in a way that benefited my client.”
Program Director at Young Parent/Child Support Services Program

“As one can imagine, as the time approached to show my first clinical tape to a roomful of fellow clinicians, I was filled with fear and trepidation. Thankfully, my fears were not realized as the consultation began and I have to say that I experienced the first truly inspiring professional growth experience of my career. …. the SMART consultant helped to frame the session so that I felt immediately comfortable and at ease.”
Clinician, Outpatient Clinic

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Business Address:
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