Traverse Counseling & Consulting, GBC provides not only therapy and counseling for Individual, Couples & Families, we also provide services for schools and students. Areas of expertise include the following:
- Faculty/Staff Development
- Parent Workshops
- Comprehensive Technology Training (Elementary age children, parents, teachers)
- Risk/Threat Assessments
- Educators Roundtable – Fall 2026 – The Educator’s Roundtable is a fun and interactive in‑person event where school counselors and professionals receive knowledge and tools to better support students and families, while networking with other professionals.
Faculty/Staff Development
Is your staff asking for training to better support students? Traverse Counseling & Consulting equips educators and administrators with practical tools and clear frameworks to strengthen classroom leadership and student support.
- Helping When Technology Use Is Taking Control – Supports educators in helping students become skilled and intentional technology users while addressing challenges related to impulsivity, attention, focus, and decision-making. Provides practical strategies for guiding healthy tech habits, setting limits, and reinforcing wise, developmentally appropriate use in the classroom.
- Substance Abuse – With substance use impacting a significant portion of students, this training helps educators recognize key warning signs and respond effectively. Walk away with practical tools to address concerns and support student well-being within the school environment.
- Managing Anxiety and Depression in the Classroom – Anxiety and depression are increasingly present in schools. This session equips educators with clear, actionable strategies to support students while maintaining structure, leadership, and a supportive classroom climate.
- The Accommodation Dilemma – When does support become counterproductive? This training helps educators understand how certain accommodations, while well-intended, can unintentionally reinforce anxiety, avoidance, and other mental health challenges. Learn how to provide effective, developmentally appropriate support while maintaining expectations, promoting resilience, and avoiding patterns that increase student dependency or distress.
- Family Transitions – Divorce, separation, and other family changes can significantly impact students. This workshop helps educators understand these dynamics and respond with informed, supportive approaches that promote stability and resilience in the classroom.
Parent Workshops
Traverse Counseling & Consulting Team members are equipped to provide workshops/seminars for parents in the following areas:
- Exceptional Parenting; Supporting your Exceptional Kids – Parenting children and teens impacted by giftedness, special needs, and/or mental health issues requires parents to be intentional in supporting their unique kids and the challenges they face. Walk away from this presentation with tools to help your children educationally, socially, and emotionally.
- Is Technology Taking Control? – This new age of technology is leaving many parents wondering what children are being exposed to on the internet, how much screen time is too much, what is all of this screen time doing to our children’s development, and how to know when to seek help. This workshop will answer all of theses questions and support parents in leading children in safe and healthy relationships with technology.
- Substance Abuse – Parents are often not aware of the indicators of substance use, do not know how to talk about it with their children, and do not know how to respond when a substance issue is present. This session will support parents in increasing their understanding of the above.
- Parenting your Anxious Child(ren) – For parents whose children have diagnosed anxiety or depression, they often feel at the mercy of these difficult and disabling disorders. This workshop will help parents understand how to lead their children into managing these issues more effectively.
- The Accommodation Dilemma – As parents, it’s natural to want to ease your child’s distress and help things go more smoothly. At times, though, certain supports can unintentionally make it harder for children to build confidence, flexibility, and resilience. This workshop helps parents understand when accommodations are helpful—and when they may be reinforcing anxiety or avoidance. Learn how to thoughtfully support your child while still encouraging growth, independence, and the skills they need to navigate challenges over time.
- Family Transitions – This session will help families to understand the dynamics that support healthy development for their children even in the midst of significant family structure transition and how to reassert or reset their parental leadership.
Comprehensive Tech Training – Helping Kids Learn Healthy Technology Habits
A comprehensive, school-connected program that supports elementary students, parents, and staff in helping children develop healthy, balanced, and age-appropriate relationships with technology. This program treats technology use as a life skill that is taught, practiced, and reinforced over time.
- Students engage in an interactive, story-based presentation (Stevie Learns About Tech Time) that uses humor and age-appropriate lessons to teach stopping, balance, and safe technology use.
- Parents attend a parallel session that explains what students learned and how to reinforce these skills at home using shared language and consistent expectations.
- Teachers and caregivers are equipped with practical tools, discussion prompts, and guides that extend learning beyond the presentation.
- Core concepts: include viewing technology as a tool, understanding stopping as a skill, and recognizing the importance of balance. This program creates a shared framework so children receive consistent messaging across school and home environments.
Risk/Threat Assessment
Is your school prepared to handle any potential threats to your school, staff or other students? How do you know how serious the risk is, and how to respond? Traverse Counseling & Consulting offers independent, neutral, third party threat/risk assessments to assist schools in this process. Our comprehensive service includes:
- Assessment of the veracity of a student’s threat
- Evaluation and quantification of factors contributing to the student’s behaviors
- Evaluation of the potential risk for future disruptive, damaging or violent behaviors
- Specific recommendations for school administrators to help guide their response, management, and subsequent interventions related to the incident in question. This includes a written summary, followed by an in-person feedback session to go over the findings.
- Recommendations for the family system
If you are a school administrator that would like more information, please call our office to set up a phone call or in person meeting.