Mental Health Workshops
We offer interactive workshops on managing stress and burnout, coping with working form home, improving productivity, and communicating more effectively. We draw from the latest evidence-based techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Dr. Amelia Aldao, Ph.D. (Yale) & Dr. Henri-Lee Stalk, Ph.D. (U. of Hawai’i)
We totally get burnout! We’ve been there: we both have worked as management consultants for a Big 3 firm, Dr. Aldao has worked for tech startups, and Dr. Stalk has supported high-profile trial litigation. We have spent weeks - and months - on the road in countless hotel rooms. We have eaten hundreds of meals by ourselves while typing frantically on our laptops. And we have put our relationships on the back-burner for way too long. All to survive the performance demands and job threats of “up and out” work cultures. So, yes, we’re super passionate to help clients going through this! We leverage our personal experience and our collective 20 years of experience doing cognitive behavioral therapy.
Let’s face it! There’s nothing easy about working from home! We are constantly “on” and the days blend into nights. There are too many distractions and it’s hard to stay motivated and productive! And we don’t get to see our coworkers, which makes us feel isolated and lonely. So, in our workshops, we teach our clients strategies for managing time, prioritizing tasks, staying connected, creating boundaries, and coping with challenging emotions.
Many exciting careers come with a high risk for burnout due to excessive pressure, tight deadlines, and poor communication. More and more people are having difficulties sleeping, concentrating, and staying motivated. Stress keeps building up! We support our clients by teaching them strategies to problem solve effectively, build healthier habits, positively cope with performance demands, and find value and meaning in their work.
Parenting is hard! And parenting during a pandemic while WFH is extra hard! Whether our kids are back in school physically, doing online learning, or a blended system, there’s no clear roadmap and we feel anxious and uncertain and guilty. We teach clients how to provide their children with emotional support and structure, manage their own frustrations and guilt, and constructively communicate with and leverage their network to get more social support.
Testimonials
Working with Amelia was a pleasure – she tailored her content to meet the needs of our audience, and presented it in a very approachable manner. She did several sessions for us, from very large (900+) to more intimate audiences, and was well received all around. I personally took away many actionable pieces of advice from her presentation that I am working on implementing in my daily life in order to minimize my own stress, which has been really great! I would definitely recommend Amelia to anybody thinking of doing a discussion around managing stress and anxiety, and I hope to work with her again!”
“We wanted our team to have the tools to effectively combat stress and live happier healthier lives. Dr. Aldao's workshop offered practical, actionable advice to equip our team with those tools, and we found the session to be very valuable. I was also impressed at how Dr. Aldao customized the content to make the session most helpful for our team. Highly recommend!”
“Dr. Aldao was incredibly relatable and candid in her communication. She was able to make hard concepts about difficult topics easy to understand and put into practice in our daily lives. At the end of the session, our community felt empowered to start building positive habits in their lives. I would highly recommend working with Dr. Aldao.“
“Dr. Aldao shared some of the most relevant and actionable perspectives that I've heard so far. It was also very reassuring to hear that many of my concerns and fears are normal, shared by others, etc. I would appreciate hearing from her more as the situation continues to evolve.”
“I thought Dr. Amelia was excellent - she was real, spoke honestly, and had a very calming demeanor. I would love to hear from her again in the future.”
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