Community Workshops

Resolve Community Counseling Center, a non-profit community mental health center in Scotch Plains, is offering the workshops listed above free to the community. The professional staff at Resolve will come to your location. If you are interested in a topic that we have not suggested, we can tailor a workshop to your needs. For further information, please contact Resolve’s executive director, Dr. Lidia Abrams at resolve@resolvenj.com.

Workshops For Adults:

  • Assertive versus Aggressive Behavior- Which is Yours?
    • What is the difference between being assertive and aggressive? When does it cross the line?
  • Changing Thoughts/Changing Minds
    • Use CBT techniques to explore the top ten cognitive distortions that contribute to anxiety and depression.
  • Tools for Overcoming Depression and Burn-Out
  • Overcoming Anxiety and Related Cognitive Distortions
  • Learned Optimism
  • How to Deal with Difficult People at Home and at Work
  • Boundary Management: Emotional, Financial, Temporal, and Physical
  • Maintaining Healthy Relationships
  • DBT Skills for All: Mindfulness, Emotional Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Using Your Wise Mind and More
  • Getting through Grief
  • Dealing with Chronic Illness
  • Managing Trauma and Developing Posttraumatic Growth
  • Overcoming Social Anxiety
  • Healthy Stress Relievers
  • Adult Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Coaching
  • Coping with Family Drama during Holidays
  • Handling Depression during Holidays
  • How to Develop a Healthy Intimate Relationship
  • Domestic Violence and Coercive Control

Workshops For Children & Teens:

  • How to Handle Bullies and How not to be One
  • How to Make Friends and Get Along
  • Anger Management Skills
  • How to be You: Gaining Self-Acceptance and Self-Determination
  • Time Management Skills
  • Decision Making Skills
  • Confronting the Illusions of Social Media: The role of the imaginary audience/FOMO

Parenting Workshops:

  • Helping your Child Confront the Illusions of Social Media:
    • The role of the imaginary audience/FOMO (fear of missing out)
  • Parenting Styles/Child Outcomes:
    • Take the parenting style inventory, and find your style.
    • Discuss the four styles and outcomes of each.
  • Successful Co-Parenting:
    • The art of negotiation, setting expectations, agreeing to disagree.
  • Let's Talk About the Bullies and the Bullied:
    • Someone’s child is being bullied and someone’s child is the bully. Which is yours? How we can help both.
  • The Changing Adolescent:
    • Dealing with parental frustration as our children progress through adolescence: How their thinking changes, how they quest for their own identity, and how the underdeveloped frontal lobe makes decisions
  • Building Secure Attachments for Infants and Children
  • Getting through a Divorce with Minimal Damage to You and Your Child
  • Co-parenting with Your Ex: Building a New, Limited Relationship Focusing on Your Child’s Best Interests
  • Anger Control for Parents
  • Positive Parenting

Resolve Community Counseling Center is also able to offer a three-session support group at your location on any of the following topics or on other topics that you may need:

Support Groups:

  • Middle school social skills group
  • High school support group for decreasing stress and increasing positive connections
  • Adult anxiety and depression support group
  • Healing from sexual trauma group for adults
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) group for adults: Mindfulness, Emotional Regulation, Distress Tolerance, Using Your Wise Mind and More
  • Group for children coping with parental divorce