12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Eastern
This webinar has been approved by the University of Detroit Mercy, an institution regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, which is our partner in the offerings of Continuing Education activities.
This webinar explores how bodily experiences form the foundation for regulation, self-awareness, connection, and action, over the developmental stages. Initially we set forth our shared framework for understanding body experiences, including interoception and exteroception. The presentation highlights the central role of bodily experience in cultivating self-awareness, relational connection, and effective bodily action. Attention is given to the role of proprioception and kinesthesia in engaging with the environment, as well as the importance of felt safety for self-regulation. The presentation concludes by examining how single-incident and complex trauma can disrupt body memory and perception. This can alter pain experiences, body maps, sense of self, and capacities for self-advocacy and regulation. This underscores the clinical and relational importance of restoring coherent, supportive bodily experiences.
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Renee Allen, MSW, OTR/L
Renee Allen has been a licensed pediatric Occupational Therapist for 25 years in a variety of clinical and home settings. She was trained at Dr. Lucy Jane Miller's STAR Institute where she worked and taught advanced mentorship courses on the STAR treatment approach for 10 years. She is also an expert training leader in the DIR/Floortime Model through the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning. Her clinical focus has been integration of sensory processing, regulation and relationship in an embodied caregiver-child model.
Since completing her Masters in Social Work (MSW), Dr. Allen has shifted her practice to Infant Mental Health. She is endorsed by the Infant Mental Health Association of Colorado as an Infant Family Specialist. She currently holds the position of Infant Toddler Developmental Consultant for fifteen HeadStart classrooms in Aurora, Colorado, where she provides coaching and training to infant and toddler teachers. In addition, she is the author of the Early Childhood Interoception Series and co-author of the newest Social Emotional Learning chapter in Case-Smith’s Pediatrics for Occupational Therapy.
Gina Veloni, Ph.D.
Dr. Gina Veloni is an Infant Mental Health Reflective Supervision Consultant, endorsed IMH Clinical -Mentor IMH-E®(IV-C). She has a PhD in Infant and Early Childhood Development with a specialty in Mental health and Disabilities, a Masters in Nursing, Post Master’s Certificate in IMH and Bachelor's in Nursing. With 25 years of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health experience in Nurse-Family Partnership as a Home Visitor, Program manager and Reflective Supervision Consultant and in her faculty roles as a Clinical Preceptor and Reflective Practice Adjunct Faculty. Gina has shifted her focus to equity centered reflective practice capacity building.She provides, in person and online, cross-disciplinary IMH Training and Reflective Supervision Consultation to individuals, small groups, and agencies locally, nationally, and internationally. She has worked with a variety of communities including: NFP, PAT, EHS, HS, early intervention, tribal home visiting, policy makers and recently ABC law group and First Legal Clinic. She also supports FAN mentoring and Community of Practice sessions for Cooper House in WA State.
Ira Glovinsky, Ph.D.
Dr. Ira Glovinsky is a fully licensed psychologist specializing in mood disorders in young children and autism spectrum disorder. He performs psychological assessments, individual psychotherapy, and family psychotherapy.
Early in his career, Dr. Glovinsky taught in an inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric hospital in Michigan, after which he coordinated a therapeutic preschool program. He worked for two years on a NICU follow-up team at Sinai Hospital in Detroit. He received his Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Michigan in 1977 and was licensed as a psychologist in 1982. Following that he worked with Dr. Stanley Greenspan at the Interdisciplinary Council for Developmental and Learning Disabilities. He was co-lead for the Fielding Graduate University doctoral program in Infant and Early Child Development, based in Santa Barbara, California.
Dr. Glovinsky was invited to participate in a senior clinician’s group headed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan, in Bethesda, Maryland. He wrote two books with Dr. Greenspan, Bipolar Patterns in Infants and Young Children, and Children and Babies with Mood Swings.
Currently Dr. Glovinksy conducts in the state of Washington a program for substance abusing parents with young children as well as a home visiting program supervising teachers for infants and toddlers. He teaches in the Early Child Care Masters and Maternal Mental Health programs at Brooklyn College.
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