Where Healing Takes Root Session - Beyond Words: Building Rapport With Kids Who Have Seen Too Much

The presentation provides practical strategies for counselors and educators to build rapport with children who have experienced significant trauma. Speakers Dr. Christine Schimmel and Dr. Matt Tolliver share actionable techniques focused on youth mental health, creative counseling, and supportive engagement with children who have witnessed significant trauma. Viewers gain insights into creative communication methods designed to help vulnerable children express their thoughts and feelings.

Presenters

Christine Schimmel, Ed.D., LPC

Professor and Associate Provost, WVWC

Dr. Christine Schimmel is currently the Associate Provost and Professor of Counseling at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Chris has more than 27 years of experience as a counselor educator, consultant, and author. Chris' teaching and writing focus on the areas of creative counseling, group counseling, counseling children and adolescents as well as topics related to school counseling, school-based assessment, and youth mental health in rural areas. Chris has successfully garnered federal grant monies for projects from SAMHSA and the US Department of Education to support public school employees around youth mental health and to support and train a more diverse cadre of school-based mental health professionals in rural WV. Popular texts authored by Dr. Schimmel include Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills (9th ed.) and Counseling Children and Adolescents (6th ed.), two popular counseling texts used in many counseling training programs.

Matt Tolliver, PhD, LPC, NCC, ALPS

Assistant Professor of Counseling, WVWC

Dr. Matthew Tolliver has a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision with a concentration in Leadership. He is also a certified Professional School Counselor (Pk- adult) and elementary school teacher (K-5), a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), Approved Licensed Professional Supervisor (ALPS) and the owner and operator of Tolliver Counseling and Consulting Services, LLC and Cryptid Mountain Miniature Golf, located in Morgantown, West Virginia. Matt worked in the public schools of West Virginia as a school counselor for 13 years, and is a former president of the West Virginia School Counselor Association.

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