Support for Parents with Disabilities Raising Babies and Children with Special Healthcare Needs
Raising Awareness
Join us for an enlightening webinar series and gain valuable insights, resources, and community connections to empower and uplift parents facing unique challenges in parenting.
Get to know our featured speakers
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KATHY HEGBERG, MA
Kathy is a child and family therapist and founder of the nonprofit FocusedKids based in the Roaring Fork Valley, CO.
She has a Master's degree in Counselor Education and Counseling Practice from CU and taught in that program as an adjunct professor for 13 years. She has a private practice serving children and families for 27 years. She believes in empowering kids and adults to manage themselves healthfully and effectively, supporting overall well-being.
Working with hundreds of families and children in her practice and local schools, she began incorporating evolving research (2008) on the developing brain by teaching kids about their brains and offering them varying strategies for self-regulation, focus, calming, and effective problem-solving. In 2011, she founded a nonprofit called FocusedKids (www.focusedkidsw.org). The program partners with schools, families, and community organizations to prioritize healthy brains for our children beginning in utero.
We are instilling mindful self-regulation skills and brain-building techniques into daily routines to increase resilience, self-awareness, and focused attention. To build awareness, she started an annual conference called Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives and brought neuroscience, mindfulness, education, and psychotherapy experts to present to the community. She has self-published three workbooks on Amazon, has written eleven lesson books to support the FocusedKids method, and has frequently written and presented on FocusedKids.
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Andrea is a Licensed Professional Counselor primarily focusing on treating developmental trauma. She has worked as a child & family therapist in community mental health settings. Currently, she is the Clinical Director of Northland Family Help Center, a victims' services agency in Flagstaff, AZ, supervising a free trauma therapy program with six somatic psychotherapists for victims of crime.
Andrea is the board president of the Coconino County Coalition for Children & Youth, as well as a board member of the Southside Community Association in her neighborhood, and is actively involved in systems change development in the greater Flagstaff to create more healing-centered, inclusive, and trauma-informed practices in all areas of life outside of the mental health field.
Andrea's approach to trauma therapy is somatic in focus and uses mind/body practices, including co-regulating touch to support clients to support or restore the development of internally sensed safety. Andrea also incorporates mindfulness & self-compassion practices to help clients of all ages build sense of safety in how they relate to themselves.
Andrea has a small private therapy practice focused on working with folks with developmental trauma and therapy for other helping professionals. She offers professional training & supervision for other mental health professionals. She currently supervises two school-based mental health therapists and two private practice therapists who work primarily with adolescents. Visit her clinical website here: www.newmoonfacilitation.com
Prenatal Education
The NICU Partnership brings together families, healthcare providers, advocates, and community members to support infants and their families transitioning from the NICU to their homes and communities.