Professional Development
Professional Development with Phoenix School Counseling
Phoenix School Counseling provides high-quality, research-based professional development designed to equip educators and school staff with the tools they need to foster student success and create thriving school communities. Our expert trainers bring extensive knowledge and real-world experience in areas essential to modern education, including effective teaching strategies, classroom management, student behavior, social and emotional learning, mental health, child development, and more.
We offer dynamic, engaging training sessions that address the most pressing needs in today’s schools—such as supporting students with disabilities, building strong school culture and climate, partnering effectively with parents, and promoting academic achievement and student motivation. Whether you're focused on enhancing emotional and behavioral regulation in the classroom or elevating instructional practices, our team delivers customized professional learning that is practical, actionable, and aligned with your school’s goals.
Partner with Phoenix School Counseling to empower your educators and create environments where all students—and the adults who support them—can thrive.
Cost: $600 - $4,000
Contact Dr. Jules Nolan at drjules@phoenixschoolcounseling.com to learn more.
Sample Training Offerings
Key Warning Signs for Early Onset Mental Illness in Children and Adolescents
Signs and symptoms of common mental health disorders. This meets criteria for required categories for educator licensure.
Suicide Prevention Best Practices
Risk factors, protective factors, and research-based warning signs for youth suicide. This meets criteria for required categories for educator licensure.
Cultural Competency
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in and outside the classroom. This meets criteria for required categories for educator licensure.
Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
How to use restorative rather than punitive interventions in school settings. This meets criteria for required categories for educator licensure.
Supports and Accommodations for Students with Diverse Learning Needs
Instructional strategies and classroom practices to meet the needs of all students. This meets criteria for required categories for educator licensure.
Working With English Language Learners
Instructional strategies and classroom practices to ensure student success for multilingual learners. This meets criteria for required categories for educator licensure.
Restorative Practices - How to help children and teens prevent and solve conflicts. Practical strategies for tiers I, II, and III.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) - an introduction to the ACEs study, brain development, health, and resilience.
Understanding and Practicing Social Emotional Learning (SEL) - an in-depth understanding on what SEL is, the neurobiology behind it, and how these skills are vital for our academic success and mental wellbeing.
How to Embed Social-Emotional Learning into a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) for All Students - How to embed SEL into a multi-tiered system of support with practical strategies to try.
All Storms Run Out of Rain
A training available to parents or educators, this covers the topic of unexpected behaviors in children and teens and the best research based strategies to implement in either home or school. It includes effective ways to de-escalate behaviors as well as meaningful strategies for restoring peace following difficult behavior.
Being the Calm
A training available for parents or educators. This training covers the adolescent brain, the changes in behaviors and biology which impact academic and social performance. It includes effective and easily applicable strategies to support young people as they transition from childhood through adolescence.
Conscious Discipline for Children and Teens
Participants will become familiar with Dr. Bailey’s research on conscious discipline and the three components of safety, connection, and problem-solving. Participants will learn the seven skills of composure, assertiveness, encouragement, choices, empathy, positive intent, and consequences. The presentation will include a lesson plan and age-specific strategy for all 7 skills. Participants will learn why these strategies work and how to use them in the classroom, group, or one-on-one setting.
Coping Strategies for Trauma-Sensitive Schools: A Guide for Teachers
Presentation will cover background research on our response to trauma and the strategies that can help foster resiliency and hope. Participants will learn how trauma affects the mind and the body in addition to a variety of strategies to use in a classroom setting (i.e., mindful awareness, positive mental habits, guided imagery, and grounding). Participants will leave this workshop with the knowledge of what a trauma-sensitive school is and how to help a child/teen who has experienced trauma.
Stress Management
Background literature will be provided on what protective factors help us cope with life’s adversity and how we can not only help ourselves, but others cope with adversity at home and in the school. Participants will leave with a variety of stress management techniques and strategies.
Leadership Training; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Training will come from Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (i.e., be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put things first, think win-win, understand to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw). An experiential approach to learning will be provided. Attendees will learn effective leadership strategies and ways to implement the 7 habits/principles. Resource materials will be provided for students and staff to reinforce the 7 habits/principles.
Using Self-Regulation to Manage Emotional Mayhem: Grades K-5Using Self-Regulation to Manage Emotional Mayhem: Grades 6-12
The presentation will include an in-depth understanding on what self-regulation is, the neurobiology behind it, and how to help children manage their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Strategies will focus on the Collaborative and Proactive Solution (CPS) approach to discipline rather than the more traditional approach of rewards and punishment. Specific strategies include progressive muscle relaxation, thought recognition exercises, the invitation, and the frame, a problem-solving technique. A list of effective coping strategies, and scripts will also be provided in this workshop.
Ways to Reduce Symptoms of Anxiety in the Schools: A Guide for Teachers
The presentation will cover background research on the common disorders and symptoms that go with anxiety and depression. Factors that influence the development of these disorders/symptoms will also be addressed (i.e., biological, neurobiological, temperament, psychological, and social). Participants will be able to identify the different symptoms and provide a variety of strategies to help the child overcome the adversity they face. Strategies will consist of the floating technique, name it to tame it, systematic desensitization, and cognitive restructuring. Participants will learn why these strategies work and how to use them in a classroom setting.