Whether you're supporting students, clients, patients, or employees, the ability to respond effectively in challenging moments is one of the most valuable professional skills you can develop.
Counselling & Behaviour offers interactive, simulation-based workshops for schools, healthcare organizations, community agencies, disability service providers, and workplaces. Our training equips professionals with practical, evidence-based skills to confidently navigate mental health concerns, emotional dysregulation, behavioural challenges, crises, and difficult conversations.
Unlike traditional professional development, our workshops don't stop at teaching concepts. Participants actively practice new skills through realistic simulations that mirror the situations they encounter every day, helping bridge the gap between knowing what to do and having the confidence to do it.
Workshops That Build Confidence Through Practice
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Our workshops are designed for organizations that support people through complex behavioural, emotional, and mental health challenges, including:
Educators and school staff
Healthcare professionals
Developmental service providers
Community organizations
Social service agencies
Leadership teams and supervisors
Whether your team works with kids, teens, adults, or families, every workshop is tailored to your environment, your challenges, and the situations your staff are most likely to encounter.
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Reading about a difficult conversation isn't the same as having one.
Listening to a presentation about de-escalation isn't the same as trying it when emotions are running high.
Our workshops are built around experiential learning. Participants move beyond theory by practicing realistic scenarios in a structured, supportive environment where they can experiment with new approaches, receive coaching from experienced clinicians, and immediately apply feedback.
This process transforms abstract concepts into practical skills that participants can use with greater confidence when they return to work.
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Every simulation is developed around authentic situations professionals face every day. Rather than relying on hypothetical case studies, participants work through realistic scenarios that require communication, clinical judgment, collaboration, and thoughtful decision making.
Depending on your organization's needs, workshops may explore topics such as emotional dysregulation, anxiety, school refusal, crisis response, challenging behaviour, neurodiversity, supporting families, conflict resolution, validation, and effective de-escalation.
Each exercise is followed by facilitated discussion and structured feedback, allowing participants to reflect, refine their approach, and build confidence through repeated practice.
Depending on the audience, workshops may explore topics such as emotional dysregulation, anxiety, school refusal, crisis communication, challenging behaviour, supporting neurodivergent individuals, difficult conversations with families, and effective de-escalation strategies.
Each exercise is followed by structured feedback and discussion, allowing participants to reflect on their approach, refine their skills, and immediately apply new strategies in the next scenario.
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Our workshops are created and facilitated by experienced psychotherapists who work every day with children, adolescents, adults, families, schools, and community organizations.
Because we continue to practice clinically, our training reflects the realities professionals face today. Every workshop combines current evidence with practical experience, creating learning that is relevant, engaging, and immediately applicable.
Our goal is simple: to help people feel more capable in the moments that matter most.
Confidence isn't built by listening. It's built through practice.
Events and Group Workshops
THE D&D SOCIAL LAB:
A 6-Week Structured Group Experience
📅 COMING SOON
🕖 1:00 – 5:00 PM
📍 Counselling & Behaviour Clinic
3300 Yonge St #300, Toronto
The D&D Social Lab is a therapist-guided program designed for young adults who want to get better at navigating real-world interactions in a way that feels natural and engaging.
Using Dungeons & Dragons as the structure, participants take part in a collaborative campaign where social challenges unfold in real time. Each session becomes a practical opportunity to build skills, test strategies, and reflect on what works.
This is a space for people who are intelligent, self-aware, and motivated, but find social environments confusing, overwhelming, or hard to break into.
What You’ll Work On
Navigating conflict and disagreement without escalation
Understanding tone, body language, and subtext
Moving beyond black-and-white thinking
Building confidence in group settings
Learning how to enter, stay in, and exit conversations
How It Works
Each session includes:
Structured gameplay
Real-time coaching and support
Guided reflection to connect in-game experiences to real life
This is not about forcing interaction. It’s about building it, step by step, in an environment that is structured, supportive, and genuinely enjoyable.
Program Details
6 weekly sessions
Small group (limited spots)
Led by experienced clinicians
Ages 18–30 (flexible)
Who This Is For
Social anxiety
ASD / neurodivergent individuals
People who feel “out of sync” in typical social settings
Anyone looking for a more natural way to build social confidence
Spots are limited: Contact info@counsellingandbehaviour.com for more details.
FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT:
Practical financial planning for families of
children with disability
📅 April 15, 2026
🕖 7:00 – 9:00 PM
📍 Lipa Green Centre, Tamari Hall
4600 Bathurst, Toronto
Featuring:
Keynote Speakers:
Nancy Purcell & Jennifer Daly
A mother–daughter financial planning team who are also parents of children with disabilities
With Guest Expert:
Geoffrey Zaldin
President, Special Needs Financial Inc.
We’ll cover: RDSPs, Government benefits Long-term financial planning and much more.
Followed by 4 small breakout discussions with professionals and other families.
$10 admission | RSVP required
susie.jdisabilitynetwork@gmail.com
Wheelchair accessible. Accommodations available upon request.