Consulting Services, Workshops & Webinars
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A liaison between the allergy community,
healthcare providers, and therapy practitioners, Tamara is perfectly positioned to provide consultation and educational services to all of these stakeholders, as well as healthcare companies servicing the allergy community. Additionally, her relationships with a network of allergy-informed therapy providers opens opportunities for The Food Allergy Counselor to bring on other therapists to offer additional workshops and webinars on a variety of specialty topics within allergy and immunology, such as specific therapeutic interventions and clinical diagnoses. [Tamara is also open to hearing new and creative collaboration ideas!] |
See the information below for the various types of consultation and educational services that Tamara provides. Then reach out for rates and more information if you're interested in any of these services.
Food Allergy-Focused Workshops, Presentations and Webinars:
Workshops are offered for the patient population, parenting groups, and the allergy community.
(Below are common workshop topics; workshops can be customized based on the audience or organization's needs)
Anxiety & Fear Topics:
- Managing food allergy-related anxiety and fear (i.e. befriending allergy anxiety)
- Utilizing mindfulness and acceptance to manage allergy anxiety and stress
- Navigating the overwhelm of allergy anxiety and stress (i.e. understanding allergy functioning traps)
- Topic-specific anxiety webinars (i.e. OIT/OFC anxiety, anaphylaxis, etc)
- Figuring out your "just right" approach to allergy life (i.e. developing risk assessment skill)
- Learning grounding skills to help manage allergy anxiety
- Understanding your allergy comfort zone and learning strategies for navigating the discomfort outside of it
Mindset & Allergy Life Approaches Topics:
- Cultivating a "can do" growth mindset when living with allergies
- Practical guidance and tips to empower allergic individuals and families
Parenting/Family-Focused Topics:
- The 6 Stages of Allergy Parenting - review of framework/tool to help parents understand their own emotions
- Parenting children with food allergies (i.e navigating anxiety, building resilience)
- Developing a workable allergy family mindset and motto
- Parents only session: navigating allergy co-parenting communication and conflicts
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March 2022 WEBINAR:
"Befriending Allergy Anxiety" Want to learn strategies to help you change your mindset about your allergy (and general) anxiety rather than fight it off like an enemy? Watch Tamara's talk with the CoFAS group here! |
Consultation, Education & Webinars for Behavioral Healthcare Providers:
To learn more about working in the allergy counseling/therapy niche and express interest in upcoming webinars and workshops to learn more about it, check out the following section: Food Allergy & Allergic Disease Counseling Information for Therapy Providers
- Allergy-specific case consultations and allergy counseling education sessions (one-on-one or small group)
- Advice on marketing food allergy counseling services at your clinical practice
- Educational webinars on topics including, but not limited to:
- Introduction to Allergy Counseling Niche - food allergy & allergic disease counseling 101
- Treating & Supporting Allergic Clients - establishing treatment goals and clinical approaches
- Understanding Food Allergy Anxiety - exploration of unique features of food allergy anxiety
- Ages & Stages Exploration - focusing on therapeutic needs of allergic clients at various ages
- Collaborating with Allergists - exploration of medical aspects of allergies/need for collaboration
- Oral Food Challenge/Oral Immunotherapy Anxiety - how to support clients undergoing OIT
- When Post-Anaphylaxis Mimics OCD - understanding post-allergic reaction behaviors
- One Theory Does Not Fit all - exploration of various therapeutic theories to support allergic clients
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Allergies - learning how to apply ACT with allergy clients
To learn more about working in the allergy counseling/therapy niche and express interest in upcoming webinars and workshops to learn more about it, check out the following section: Food Allergy & Allergic Disease Counseling Information for Therapy Providers
Consultation, Education & Webinars for Allergy Practices & Healthcare Providers:
Allergy practices and/or healthcare providers will benefit from consultation and education sessions with Tamara, as they will learn how to better serve their patients' psychosocial needs. For consultations, Tamara starts the process with a needs assessment to understand your patient flow and protocols, as well as your specific goals for the consultation. From there, she will provide you an outline of solutions, strategies and recommendations to meet your specific goals. For education sessions, Tamara will virtually provide education to your practice staff on a variety of topics that will enhance your patients' experience of psychosocial care.
Examples of consultation session topics include, but are not limited to:
Examples of education session topics include, but are not limited to:
To learn more about how the food allergy & allergic disease counseling niche can benefit your patients, check out the following section: Food Allergy & Allergic Disease Counseling Information for Allergists
[Tamara is also available to provide educational patient webinars for your allergy practice patients. Please reach out to Tamara to discuss this service as well].
Allergy practices and/or healthcare providers will benefit from consultation and education sessions with Tamara, as they will learn how to better serve their patients' psychosocial needs. For consultations, Tamara starts the process with a needs assessment to understand your patient flow and protocols, as well as your specific goals for the consultation. From there, she will provide you an outline of solutions, strategies and recommendations to meet your specific goals. For education sessions, Tamara will virtually provide education to your practice staff on a variety of topics that will enhance your patients' experience of psychosocial care.
Examples of consultation session topics include, but are not limited to:
- Reviewing/assessing current patient education and support services to identify areas for improvement
- Exploring practice and patient benefits of adding psychosocial components to allergy care
- Review models of multidisciplinary patient care and coordination with allied healthcare providers
- Review of validated and narrative/patient-report assessments to evaluate patient anxiety & quality of life impacts
- Guidance and help with enhancing patient education and information materials beyond allergy basics
- Creating a psychosocially-supportive food allergy treatment program or patient services
Examples of education session topics include, but are not limited to:
- Practical strategies to enhance the patient experience, such as how language used with patients impacts mindset
- Models to use that offer a comprehensive understanding of factors impacting allergy patients' quality of life
- Calming strategies to use in-office with anxious patients
- Common quality of life impacts at various ages/stages
- Common mental health/psychosocial impacts associated w/food allergies (and how they differ from general anxiety)
- Helping allergy patients navigate family, relationship and social impacts
- Common feelings and thoughts parents/caregivers report
To learn more about how the food allergy & allergic disease counseling niche can benefit your patients, check out the following section: Food Allergy & Allergic Disease Counseling Information for Allergists
[Tamara is also available to provide educational patient webinars for your allergy practice patients. Please reach out to Tamara to discuss this service as well].
Consultation, Education & Advisement for Healthcare Companies:
At the core of any healthcare company is the goal of providing quality patient services and products. In order to successfully achieve this goal, it's crucial to understand and engage with the targeted patient population. As a well-respected licensed clinical behavioral healthcare clinician and with solid relationships with the allergy community, allergists, therapy providers, and advocacy organizations, Tamara is uniquely positioned to offer valuable and impactful insights. Whether serving in an advisory or consultation role, working with Tamara will allow your organization to better understand the patient experience and behavioral healthcare needs of the allergy community, which leads to improvements to patient care processes and patient engagement. Additionally, Tamara is available to offer education and training sessions to healthcare organization staff members focused on the behavioral healthcare needs, quality of life impacts, and patient experiences of allergic individuals and families.
To explore advisory, consultation, and collaborative opportunities, reach out to Tamara to discuss!
To explore advisory, consultation, and collaborative opportunities, reach out to Tamara to discuss!