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Cristina is an inspiring and enthusiastic therapist, facilitator, presenter, and licensed clinical social worker. A former teacher and mother of three with more than 25 years’ worth of experience, she’s smart, seasoned, warm, and relatable.
Strategy Sessions are solution-focused, one-hour blocks that provide clients with relief from a dilemma and clarity for their next steps.
Groups
According to a New York Times editorial on 7/14/23 called , “If Loneliness Is An Epidemic, How Do We Treat It?” by Eleanor Cummins and Andrew Zaleski, more than one-fifth of Americans over age 18 say they often or always feel lonely or socially isolated.
Chronic loneliness is related to a range of physical and neurological problems including increased susceptibility to infections and cognitive decline.
Presentations
Cristina enjoys presenting to a variety of audiences. Customized programs are available for parents, faculty, or employees. They are interactive, research-based, and solution-focused, providing actionable takeaways. Programs target your organization’s specific needs. 60-90 minute programs available.
Here are Some Examples of Presentations Cristina Has Given in the Past:
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Understanding the Teenage Brain: The Keys to Improving a Challenging Relationship
Learn how to anticipate and understand the conflicts that inevitably arise with teens based on recent research on the teenage brain. Listen for tips on managing your own emotions before beginning to deal with challenging teen behaviors. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your teen while maintaining a respectful relationship with appropriate limits.
Reducing Anxiety through Acceptance in the Classrooms: A Workshop for Teachers on How to Embrace Every Type of Child
As teachers, we learn to embrace both the introvert and the extrovert, and to help all kids feel a sense of belonging in our classroom, but this takes consistent effort and attention. Refresh your skills and sharpen your toolbelt so that your classroom becomes a worry-free zone for every type of child, regardless of his or her demeanor.
Why We Rescue: How to Build Tolerance for Witnessing Our Kids Struggle
Learn specific tools for the following: how to grow our childrens’ window of tolerance as well as our own, when to let our children struggle vs. when to step in and help, and how to encourage more resilience in our children. Once we learn ways to help our children manage stress and anxiety, we are better equipped to resist the urge to rescue our children.
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Ten Practical Ways to Build Accountability in Your Kids
Accountable kids tend to tell the truth, own up to things more easily, and do the right thing even if we’re not around to police them. Accountable kids also end up building and maintaining strong connections. The quality of our connections is the greatest predictor of longevity and health. Get the strategies and tips you need to foster a culture of responsibility in your home.
A Roadmap for Managing Stress in the Post-Quarantine World: Tips and Strategies for Adults and Kids
Learn how to name and normalize all feelings in an effort to accept and rebuild. Hear tips on building your resilience, designating an accountability partner, and setting a mantra. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your loved ones and cultivating resilience in your family during this challenging time.
Resiliency Roadshow
Resilient adults tend to share a set of common traits. Discover the habits to instill now, while your kids are young, in order to foster the development of these traits. Learn the tools you can teach your kids to help them manage disappointment and tackle obstacles at a young age. Building these muscles early helps to establish patterns in the brain which will serve your kids as they become teenagers and face difficult decisions.
How Dads Can Make a Difference: Strengthening Bonds with Their Daughter
Fathers, you play a huge role in teaching your daughters about relationships, love, and respect. Work demands often pull your focus away from the family, however. Join us to deepen your understanding of how to improve your communication, plan proactively
Understanding the Teenage Brain: The Keys to improving a Challenging Relationship
Learn how to anticipate and understand the conflicts that inevitably arise with teens based on recent research on the teenage brain. Listen for tips on managing your own emotions before beginning to deal with challenging teen behaviors. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your teen while maintaining a respectful relationship with appropriate limits.
Reducing Anxiety Through Acceptance in the Classrooms: A Workshop for Teachers on how to Embrace every type of Child
Learn how to anticipate and understand the conflicts that inevitably arise with teens based on recent research on the teenage brain. Listen for tips on managing your own emotions before beginning to deal with challenging teen behaviors. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your teen while maintaining a respectful relationship with appropriate limits.
Why We Rescus Our Kids: How to Build Tolerance For Witnessing Our Kids STRUGGLE
Learn how to anticipate and understand the conflicts that inevitably arise with teens based on recent research on the teenage brain. Listen for tips on managing your own emotions before beginning to deal with challenging teen behaviors. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your teen while maintaining a respectful relationship with appropriate limits.
Why We Rescus Our Kids: How to Build Tolerance For Witnessing Our Kids STRUGGLE
Learn how to anticipate and understand the conflicts that inevitably arise with teens based on recent research on the teenage brain. Listen for tips on managing your own emotions before beginning to deal with challenging teen behaviors. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your teen while maintaining a respectful relationship with appropriate limits.
Ten Practical Ways to build Accountability in Your Kids
Learn how to anticipate and understand the conflicts that inevitably arise with teens based on recent research on the teenage brain. Listen for tips on managing your own emotions before beginning to deal with challenging teen behaviors. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your teen while maintaining a respectful relationship with appropriate limits.
A Roadmap for Managing Stress in the Post-Quarantine World: Tips and STRATEGIES for Adults and Kids
Learn how to anticipate and understand the conflicts that inevitably arise with teens based on recent research on the teenage brain. Listen for tips on managing your own emotions before beginning to deal with challenging teen behaviors. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your teen while maintaining a respectful relationship with appropriate limits.
Resiliency Roadshow
Learn how to anticipate and understand the conflicts that inevitably arise with teens based on recent research on the teenage brain. Listen for tips on managing your own emotions before beginning to deal with challenging teen behaviors. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your teen while maintaining a respectful relationship with appropriate limits.
How Dads Can Make a Difference: Strengthening Bonds With Their Daughter
Learn how to anticipate and understand the conflicts that inevitably arise with teens based on recent research on the teenage brain. Listen for tips on managing your own emotions before beginning to deal with challenging teen behaviors. Leave with specific tactics for connecting with your teen while maintaining a respectful relationship with appropriate limits.
Retreats
The resulting conversations elicit validating and uplifting connections among participants.A retreat is an opportunity for participants to gather in a relaxing place to do a deep dive on a designated topic for the day. We immerse ourselves in this topic via honest conversations designed to deepen our understanding and broaden our perspective. The resulting conversations elicit connections amongst the participants that are validating and uplifting. The location, hours, and schedule of the retreat can be arranged around what is most convenient and productive for the group.
The Riverside Retreat:
Understanding Anxiety, Lagging Skills, and Acceptance in Our Kids
Join us for the culmination of our on-going conversations about best practices in parenting in 2023. Today will be dedicated to understanding three cornerstones of excellent parenting. One is how to navigate anxiety in your family in a way that is supportive but not enabling. Next, we will examine the notion of lagging skills and how using this mindset opens up empathy and patience as we interact with our kids. Finally, we will review the reasons why acceptance is our greatest gift and our strongest tool in every relationship.
The Spring Reset: Quieting the Chaos and Fine-Tuning Your Why
April 5, 2022, Greenwich, CT
Sometimes we have to step off the treadmill to take stock, notice patterns, appreciate progress, and decide on new goals. The Spring Reset is a time to do just this. Press pause on your life for five hours. Carve out this block of time to reflect and assess. Find a deeper understanding of “Your Why” as you mature into this next chapter. Enjoy conversation with like-minded, like-hearted women as Cristina facilitates meaningful conversation.
The Fall Retreat:
A Time to Look Inside
November 1, 2021, Greenwich, CT
Join us in a conversation about topics that matter to the maturing Mom. Consider your identity as you parent older kids or become an empty nester. Reflect on your close relationships as you move into this next phase. Clarify your goals as more time opens up for you. Learn how to articulate Your Why and your Daily Non-Negotiables, and to designate your Accountability Partner. Enjoy conversation with like-minded, like-hearted women as Cristina facilitates meaningful conversation.
Tools For The Teenage Years
This group offers Moms a safe, comfortable space in which to enhance their parenting tool kit while developing connections with other, like-minded Moms—all under the guidance of a caring professional.