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Speaking Engagements

Popular Talks:

  • Achievement and Drive vs. Anxiety and Perfection

  • Tech Today: Navigating the Interactions with Mental Health and Technology

  • Tricky Transitions: Parenting Tips for the Start of School

  • Building Resilience: Emotional Distress Coping Tips for Parents

  • Navigating Friendship Roadblocks

Prior Speaking Engagements:

  • Colvin Run Elementary School, Fairfax County Public School, Vienna, VA

  • Flint Hill School, Oakton, VA

  • University School of Nashville, Nashville, TN

  • St. Bernard Academy, Nashville, TN

  • Potomac School, McLean, VA

  • The Madeira School, McLean, VA

  • Safe Community Coalition, McLean, VA

  • US Figure Skating, Colorado Springs, Colorado

  • Creche Preschool, St. Francis Episcopal Church, Great Falls, VA

  • Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, Washington, DC

Academic Invited Presentations (Selected):

  • George Mason University, Psychology Department - Adjunct Professor

  • Children's National Hospital: Psychology Department Intern Didactic Trainings & New Faculty Training

  • Cincinnati Children's Hospital, FIRST Program

  • Children's National Hospital: Anesthesiology Grand Rounds

  • Children's National Hospital: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Grand Rounds

  • University of Illinois College of Medicine, Grand Rounds 

  • Society of Pediatric Pain Medicine: Invited conference speaker

  • INOVA Alexandria Pediatricians: Grand Grounds

  • HSC: Psychology Department In-Service

Service to Community (Selected):

  • Safe Community Coalition, Mental Health Committee Member

  • Red Cross Hurricane Response

  • Psychology graduate student externship training supervisor

  • Maryland Psychological Association: prior Board Secretary and Membership Committee

  • Society of Pediatric Psychology: prior Pain Special Interest Group Clinical Committee Chair

  • Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Washington, DC

  • Psychology Graduate Student and Early Career Mentor: Society of Pediatric Psychology & Society of Child and Adolescent Psychology

  • Dissertation Committee Member: University of Maryland Baltimore County & Catholic University

Call 

703.829.6993 (Laura)

703.705.7675 (Cate)

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