With a teaching background, I am very comfortable with facilitating various types of groups, either for educational, informative purposes or for therapeutic gain. Age range of groups spans infant with parent programs through to school aged and adolescent participants as well as adult programs. I am comfortable facilitating educational material regarding a wide variety of mental health topics including regulation, anxiety, mood disorders, parenting strategies, understanding child and adolescent development, stress and the management of such, understanding the brain, to name only a few. Therapeutic groups are formed with participants that face similar concerns and are prepared and willing to share and receive insight from other participants. Therapeutic groups do contain some level of educational components but typically focus more on processing challenges as a group. Topics for learning would be identified by the participants of the therapeutic group.