In the DBT, CBT, and Play Therapy Toolbox, you’ll find over 200 ready-to-use worksheets and activities designed to help kids and adolescents build social-emotional skills, develop greater insight, and process their struggles in a playful yet therapeutic manner. Drawing from the best of DBT, CBT, and play therapy, it includes step-by-step instructions and variation options based on age and developmental level, allowing you to flexibly and creatively address the often unpredictable challenges that kids face today.
Whether you’re a therapist, teacher, social worker, school counselor, or parent, this all-in-one resource will allow you to navigate a range of issues, from the common to the not-so-common, including:
Amanda Crowder, MSW, LCSW, is co-author of the best-selling book CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents: Over 200 Worksheets & Exercises for Trauma, ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, Depression & Conduct Disorders. Amanda is an expert at moving evidence-based interventions into practical methods for application and moving research into action. She has created and adapted evidence-based interventions to work with the most challenging children, adolescents, and families in the most difficult situations. By helping to establish the Trauma Informed Care initiative within Carolinas Medical Center, Amanda has proven her leadership in moving clinical concepts into practice. Amanda runs a private practice in Charlotte, NC, and continues to work for Carolinas Medical Center within a crisis center and virtual mental health emergency room. Her specialties include depression, anxiety, trauma, behavioral issues, and family issues. Amanda uses realness, humor, and passion to build rapport with clients and audiences.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amanda Crowder maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Amanda Crowder is a member of the ISSTD.
Julianna Elsworth, MSW, LCSW, has dedicated her career as a psychotherapist, educator, and advocate to individuals who have endured trauma. She has extensive experience educating professionals who work with trauma survivors, including providing agency wide residential treatment trainings and for teachers in the Syracuse City School District. Julianna has worked in numerous settings across the social work field, including psychiatric inpatient hospitals, adolescent residential treatment, and as an adjunct professor for the MSW program at Syracuse University.
Julianna currently works with children, adolescents, adults, and families as an outpatient private practice therapist in Charlotte, NC. Her specialties include complex trauma, sexually reactive behaviors in childhood, depression, anxiety, behavioral problems, and high-conflict families. Julianna is knowledgeable, likable, and engaging and relates to her clients and audiences in a personable, direct and compassionate manner. She is an expert at taking evidenced-based practices and implementing them into creative and functional interventions that get results and promote positive client outcomes.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Julianna Elsworth has an employment relationship with Calming Waters Counseling Services. She receives a speaking honorarium, book and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Julianna Elsworth has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Anastasia Harmeyer, MSW, LCSW, LCAS, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s master’s program in social work. She also has a master’s in criminal justice and completed her undergraduate degree in criminology and sociology with a minor in psychology at The Ohio State University. She is a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed clinical addictions specialist in the state of North Carolina. Anastasia decided to pursue her master’s in social work after working with adolescents in the criminal justice system and recognizing the significance of therapeutic services.
She has also had the opportunity to serve as the clinical director of a community mental health and substance abuse organization, run full-fidelity DBT groups, and work as a trainer for PESI, facilitating two-day intensive DBT trainings. Anastasia is currently an outpatient therapist at Calming Waters Counseling Services in Charlotte, NC. She specializes in working with adolescents and adults with borderline personality disorder, addiction, complex trauma and PTSD, relational conflict with couples and families, self-harming behaviors, and suicidality. She is trained in DBT and EMDR and is a certified clinical supervisor for provisionally licensed LCSWs. She is passionate about providing a supportive and validating therapeutic environment to assist her clients in building skills, balancing acceptance and change, and meeting their goals. Anastasia also has a deep love of animals and is passionate about advocating for both animals and humas; she believes that all are deserving of a life worth living.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Anastasia Harmeyer maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Anastasia Harmeyer has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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