Creative Social Emotional Innovations for School and Home
About Me
Dr. Lisa Weed Phifer is a trauma-informed social emotional learning specialist, nationally certified school psychologist, mother, wife, and professional development designer. Dr. Phifer is the lead author of the best selling tool, CBT Toolbox for Children and Adolescents, Trauma Informed Social Emotional Toolbox, and the Parent Toolbox.
Dr. Phifer has expertise in developing the social emotional capacities of students across all stages of development. Her work focuses on empowering students, families and educators to build relationships, explore strengths and foster resiliency. Her work has also been published in the School Mental Health Journal and the first and second editions of Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students (Editor: E. Rossen).
Dr. Phifer holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Neuroscience and Psychology from Allegheny College, a Masters in Educational Psychology from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and earned her Doctorate of Education with an emphasis in neuropsychology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She holds additional certifications as a Child & Adolescent CBT Clinician (CBT-CA), Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist, and Youth Mental Health Specialist.
My Experience
Dr. Phifer is a trauma informed social emotional learning specialist. She has also practiced as a school psychologist, serving multiple school systems for the last 14 years. She has extensive experience working with students with diverse learning needs including specific learning disabilities, Autism, trauma exposure, low incidence disabilities and emotional disabilities.
Additionally, she has experience conducting workshops in the United States and Canada addressing trauma informed practices and strategies for implementing cognitive behavioral strategies in the classroom.
Services
Creative Therapeutic Consultant
Dr. Phifer creates therapeutic materials for my own workbooks and consults with other professionals for intervention design. Using creative problem solving methods, she creates activities to support children with challenging behavioral and learning issues to be used in the educational and home setting..
Webinars and Workshops
Dr. Phifer is a speaker and webinar developer. She specializes in trauma informed approaches to support students, psycho-education for educators, and other mental health topics.
Publications Available for Purchase
Trauma Informed Social Emotional Toolbox
Parenting Toolbox. PESI Publishing
CBT Toolbox for Children &Adolescents. PESI Publishing
Students Exposed to Domestic Violence, Chapter in E. Rossen's Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students, 2nd Edition
Phifer, L. & Hull, R. (2016). Helping Students Heal: Observations of Trauma-Informed Practices in the Schools. School Mental Health Journal, DOI 10.1007/s12310-016-9183-2m
McPherson, D. & Phifer, L. (2012). “Students exposed to domestic violence.” In E. Rossen & R. Hull (Eds) Supporting and Educating Traumatized Children. Oxford University Press.
Past Workshops, Webinars and Presentations
Cognitive Behavioral Strategies for Educators, LRP Conference
Trauma Informed Psychological Approaches to Assessing, Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students. Whitby, Ontario
Cognitive Behavioral Strategies for the Trauma Informed Classroom [Webinar]. Education Research Newsletter & Webinars.
CBT Toolbox for Children & Adolescents,” Two Day Seminar presented at PESI Event in New York City.
Trauma Informed Psychological Approaches to Assessing, Supporting and Educating Traumatized Students. Dorothy Hill Symposium, Ontario.
“Creating a Trauma Toolkit” Presented at the Creating Trauma Sensitive Schools Conference, Washington DC.
“Creative and collaborative approaches to trauma informed instruction.” MSEA Conference, Ocean City, MD.