Trauma-informed Strategies to Support Children & Youth Through Grief & Loss
Dec 11th 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join your STFC team and Natascha Lawrence as she helps us learn how to best support children and youth through difficult life transitions, trauma, grief, and loss. Through both a Neurodiversity Affirming and a Trauma Focused Lens, participants will explore how to effectively support kiddos with their big feelings, difficult decisions, and grieving rituals.
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(Fatima) Natascha Lawrence (she/her/hers pronouns),M.A., RCC, BCRPT is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, BC Registered Play Therapist, Certified Synergetic Play Therapy Supervisor and EMDR practitioner. She is a BIPOC first-generation Canadian settler of mixed Asian ancestry, an ADHDer, Queer and has a mobility disability due to a chronic pain neurological condition.
With almost 20 years of experience, Natascha specializes in neurodiversity, particularly with FASD. Natascha has experience working with clients across different modalities and systems, including schools, hospitals, community mental health, and private practice, and has worked with individuals from birth to adulthood, couples and families.
Dedicated to enlightening the world to see through the beauty of a neurodiversity lens, Natascha is the co-founder of the FASD Institute, which provides counselling, supervision, and education to clinicians, individuals, and families. Natascha is the creator of the Empowering Neurodiversity (END) Model™, a framework that guides clinicians on dismantling racism, ableism, oppression, and decolonizing their practices to empower neurodiversity.
Most importantly, Natascha is the parent of two incredible neurodivergent children, one who has FASD.
