Applied Improv for Therapists, SLPs, Educators, OTs and related professionals

Live & Asynchronous Trainings

Applied Improv is an incredible tool for therapists, SLPs, OTs, Educators, and related professionals to transform their clinical and therapeutic work by offering both pedagogical frameworks and concrete exercises, skills, and resources for clients.

As a therapist who specializes in applied improv, I:

  • Integrate improv into all of my clinical work

  • Have spent years training therapists, educators, SLPs, and OTs to integrate improv into their work (For example, co-directing Camp Yes And.)

  • Have created adaptive improv theatre programs for homeless youth, autistic youth, foster youth, youth and adults in in-patient and out-patient treatment

  • Created the Yes And Brain model as a therapeutic framework that blends clinical knowledge, attachment theory, nervous system knowledge, communication science, and improv together to improve clinical presence and intervention

  • Offer experiential, nervous-system informed, play-based clinical intervention that blends improv with play therapy, narrative therapy, psychodynamic frameworks, DBT, and more. (Read more about Polyvagal Theory, the Window of Tolerance, and Improv here.)

Whether you’re looking to integrate improv into your existing practice, level up your practice frameworks and modalities, or run a improv-based therapeutic program - I can help!

All of my Applied Improv trainings are fully customized to meet individual and organizational needs. These are a few frequently covered topics:

  • Develop self-confidence as a clinician

  • Tolerate stress and lean into difficult moments/client dysregulation

  • Improv tools for remaining present

  • Meet your clients where they are - and respond more effectively in the moment

  • Improve attunement and rapport development

  • Building connection with your clients through improv

  • Using improv to support Experiential Clinical Assessment

  • Assessing and addressing your own needs as a helping professional 

  • Improv and trauma treatment

  • Improv, play, and the nervous system

  • Improv and the attachment cycle

  • Improv and trauma narratives

 

  • Supporting Social Emotional learning through Improv

  • Improv and Pragmatic Language

  • Improv and Conversational Skills

  • Improv and Non-verbals

  • Improv and Narrative Development

  • Improv and Taking character perspective

  • Improv and Generalizing info

  • Improv and Articulation, Prosody etc.

 
 

  • Building group cohesion and rapport through Improv

  • Attachment Dynamics, the Family, and Improv

  • Collaboration, Play and Healing through Improv

  • Improv-based Therapy Groups

  • Integrating improv into clinical intervention

  • Blending Improv with DBT, Psychodynamic Orientation, Narrative Therapy Etc.

  • Strengths-based Therapeutic Intervention through Improv

  • Fostering play and connection with Improv

  • The Healing Power of Play

  • Enhancing self-regulation, flexibility, and resilience through the expressive arts

 
 

  • improv and autistic strengths

  • Improv and harnessing self-expression

  • Improv and self-acceptance

  • Designing improv programs for autistic youth and adults