Electrify your educators and parents with an award-winning
SPEAKER
Allison Edwards delivers strategically developed topics that empower educators, counselors and parents with the tools they need to support kids. Her sessions blend brain science with practical strategies that can be implemented immediately. Each engagement with Allison is a pivotal step to cultivating a culture of empowerment within homes and schools.
Allison is available for both in-person and virtual events.
Allison makes it easy for you.
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SELECT A TOPIC
Choose from the topics below, designed to transform your role as an educator and parent.
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CUSTOMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE
Contact Allison to customize your chosen topic, add additional topics, or choose a plan based that will fit your unique goals and audience.
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UTILIZE THE BOOK DISCOUNT
Use the 25% discount to purchase corresponding books as a reference to enhance learning.
TOPIC 1 *New Topic
Growing up Strong: Empowering Young Minds to Manage Emotions, Navigate Conflict and Embrace Growth
Based on Allison’s new book, this presentation teaches parents and educators how to help kids do hard tasks, accomplish goals and become more independent. She will share the 5 feelings kids need to manage before 18 and best practices to help kids build resilience and grow emotional muscles. Using real-life examples, brain research and practical strategies, Allison will teach adults how to lead kids down the path of becoming resilient, capable and emotionally aware.
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Age-appropriate exercises to help kids build emotional muscles
Clear steps for emotion regulation to help kids manage difficult situations
Practical guidance for educators, parents and counselors
Real-world examples that illustrate key concepts
TOPIC 2
Flooded: A Brain-Based Guide to Help Children Manage Emotions
Based on her best-selling book, Allison explains how parents, educators and counselors can help children regulate emotions. Filled with techniques, real-life examples, and practical suggestions for setting up spaces to support emotional regulation, Allison will help adults identify flooded children and help them reset. In this program, adults will not only learn how to help children reset their brains but also how to reset their own brains when triggered by dysregulated children.
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How the brain processes emotion and how children become flooded
The process of regulation by resetting the 5 senses at home and at school
The affects of trauma on emotional dysregulation and how to provide safety
Practical ways to help educators and adults reset when triggered by dysregulated children
Feel like you don’t have enough time to do counseling? Participants will learn 15 counseling techniques that can be implemented in less that 15 minutes from when a student walks into your office. The program can be suited to elementary, middle or high school counselors (or a combination of all) and participants will not only learn the strategies but will be doing them alongside Allison as she teaches how to implement them. Get our your Play-Doh! The hands-on experiential progam will revolutionalize your counseling department and leave participants feeling empowered.
TOPIC 3
15-Minute Counseling Techniques that Work: What You Didn’t Learn in Grad School
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15 practical strategies that can be used with kids, K-12
A description of each strategy along with materials to use, setting and best practices
Leave with strategies you can implement tomorrow. A great way to build or grow a counseling practice
TOPIC 4
Why Smart Kids Worry
Based on her best-selling book, Allison teaches participants how bright kids think and why they struggle with anxiety and emotional regulation. She can tailor this program to educators, counselors and/or parents. She teaches practical tools to help kids navigate these fears. This presentation simplifies anxiety, empowers adults and relieves fears that kids won’t be able to overcome anxiety. A fresh approach that has helped tens of thousands understand anxious children.
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An easy to understand definition of anxiety and how to overcome it
15 tools to take kids from debilitated to empowered
How to set boundaries, promote confidence and allow children to overcome fears on their own
TOPIC 5
Approaching Anxiety: How and When Educators should Intervene
Feel like you don’t have enough time to do counseling? Participants will learn 15 counseling techniques that can be implemented in less that 15 minutes from when a student walks into your office. The program can be suited to elementary, middle or high school counselors (or a combination of all) and participants will not only learn the strategies but will be doing them alongside Allison as she teaches how to implement them. Get our your Play-Doh! The hands-on experiential progam will revolutionalize your counseling department and leave participants feeling empowered.
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15 practical strategies that can be used with kids, K-12
A description of each strategy along with materials to use, setting and best practices
Leave with strategies you can implement tomorrow. A great way to build or grow a counseling practice
TOPIC 6
Helping Students with Trauma and Emotional Dysregulation
Counselors, mental health professionals and educators work daily with children who are unable to regulate their emotions. Trauma and ACE’s are a large part of this epidemic and based on brain research, this workshop will help professionals learn how to identify triggers, teach effective coping strategies. In turn, they can help children become more equipped to handle traumatic situations, build trust and effectively manage emotions.
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Understand how the brain reacts to trauma
Learn effective ways to interact with traumatized kids
How ACE's affect learning and everyday functioning
TOPIC 7
Helping the Helper: Self-Care for Counselors
We spend our days helping kids but how do we help ourselves? This program outlines self-care models for counseling professionals, uses humor and storytelling to normalize how hard our jobs are, and leaves counselors feeling rejuvenated. Tips for how to structure the workday, balance home and work life and how to focus on your role will help counselors better manage their taxing jobs and give them strategies they can use for years to come!
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Define your role and let the rest go
Strategies to reset your brain during a stressful day
Boundaries that create work-life balance and career longevity
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
June 24, 2025
Mental Health Symposium Lubbock, TX
Allison will deliver a full-day presentation for the annual Mental Health Behavioral Health Symposium in Lubbock, Texas.
Her presentation entitled, Regulation and Resilience, is a blend of her two best-selling books: Flooded: A Brain-Based Guide to Regulate Emotions and Growing Up Strong: Empowering Young Minds to Manage Emotions, Navigate Conflict and Embrace Growth.
Allison will spend the morning explaining how the brain process emotion and teach practical, effective strategies to help dysregulated children in high-stress moments. In the afternoon, Allison will share the 5 feelings kids need to manage before 18, and teach adults how to lead kids down the path of becoming resilient, capable and emotionally aware. This program packs a punch using real-life examples, brain research and practical strategies.
Allison will deliver a tailor-made presentation for the annual Aubodon Head Start Summit which provides learning and developmental services to over 2,500 children ages birth to five and pregnant women from at-risk backgrounds.
Her presentation entitled, Self-Care for Child Advocates will teach participants how to manage stress, reduce burnout and help children without losing themselves in the process. This presentation will equip child advocates with powerful self-care strategies to create life balance, set boundaries and thrive in their crucial work of helping children in need.
Allison will present a half-day professional development workshop to the school counselors of Wilson County Schools.
She will present her popular topic, Helping the Helper: Self-Care for School Counselors. In this summer PD, Allison will help counselors learn self-care models and through humor and storytelling, leave counselors feeling lighter and rejuvenated. Tips for how to structure the workday, balance home and work life and how to focus on your role will help counselors better manage their taxing jobs. The self-care strategies they learn will empower them to become more balanced and less-stressed in the coming years.
This is Allison’s second straight appearance at the annual Umbrella Project Mental Health Summit in Owensboro, KY.
For this year’s conference, Allison will present three of her most popular sessions: Approaching Anxiety: How and When Professionals can Intervene, 15-Minute Counseling Techniques that Work: What you Didn’t Learn in Grad School and Flooded: A Brain-Based Guide to Help Children Manage Emotions. In each of her sessions, participants will learn practical strategies, effective tools and leave with a clear path of how to acheive their goals with kids.
July 28, 2025
Aubodon Head Start Summit Owensboro, KY
July 29, 2025
August 5, 2025
Umbrella Project Mental Health Summit Owensboro, KY
August 7, 2025
Wilson County Schools Columbia, TN
Winnebago Public Schools Winnebago, NE
September 17, 2025
International School Counselor Association (ISCA) Live Webinar
February 6, 2026
Wisconsin School Counselor Conference Wisconsin Dells, WI
March 18-21, 2026
International School Counselor Conference Prague, Czech Republic
Allison will lead a full-day professional development workshop for Winnebago Public Schools in Winnebago, Nebraska.
Allison will present two topics: Growing Up Strong: Empowering Young Minds to Manage Emotions, Navigate Conflict and Embrace Growth and 15-Minute Counseling Techniques: What you Didn’t Learn in Grad School. Both presentations are based on Allison’s best-selling books and participants will have the books provided ahead of time to lay the foundation for Allison’s presentations. This full-day PD will provide counselors, school psychologists and therapists powerful tools to implement into their programs in the upcoming fall and for years to come.
This is the third webinar Allison will present for the International School Counselor Association (ISCA).
This presentation topic, Helping Students with Trauma and Emotional Dysregulation, will help school counselors around the globe understand the importance of ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and how these experiences present in students in the school setting. Counselors will become aware of emotional triggers, learn effective coping strategies and create safety with students who may have not experienced it before. This practical presentation simplifies the complex issue of trauma and teaches school counselors how to support students in effective ways.
Allison will serve as the opening keynote speaker at the Wisconsin School Counselor Association (WSCA) annual National School Counseling Week Breakfast.
Allison will present on Building Resilience in Students. Based on Allison’s new book, Growing up Strong, this presentation will teach school counselors how to help kids do hard tasks, accomplish goals and become more independent. She will share the 5 feelings kids need to manage before 18 and best practices to help kids build resilience and grow emotional muscles. Using real-life examples, brain research and practical strategies, Allison will teach counselors how to lead kids down the path of becoming resilient, capable and emotionally aware.
Allison will serve as a keynote speaker and lead a half-day pre-conference session at International School Counselor Association (ISCA) Annual Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.
The keynote presentation, Growing up Strong: Empowering Young Minds to Manage Emotions, Navigate Conflict and Embrace Growth teaches counselors valuable strategies to help empower kids to do hard things. This practical keynote not only leaves counselors with inspiration but practical strategies they can implement immediately.
The half-day workshop, 15-Minute Counseling Techniques that Work: What you Didn’t Learn in Grad School offers a hands-on experience for counselors to learn powerful strategies to use in counseling sessions with kids in the school setting. Based on her best-selling book, Allison will take participants on a deep dive of the strategies and how to implement them with student populations K-12.
Client List
Alamance-Burlington Schools | Burlington, NC Massachusetts School Counselor Conference | Newton, MA
Autism Summer Institute | University of South Florida Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools | Nashville, TN
Baldwin County Public Schools | Daphne, AL MIT Learning and Brain Conference | Boston, MA
Clarke County Schools | Athens, GA Muscogee County Schools | Columbus, GA
Clint Independent School District | El Paso, TX Nebraska Mental Health Summit | Kearney, NE
Cobb County Schools | Atlanta, GA New Jersey School Counselor Conference | Edison, NJ
Collierville Public Schools | Shelby County, TN North Carolina School Counselor Conference |
Collinsville High School | Collinsville, IL Northbridge Academy | Marin, CA
Connecticut School Counselor Conference | Uncasville, CT Okaloosa County Schools | Destin, FL
Currey Ingram Academy - Brentwood, TN Pace Academy | Atlanta, GA
Dallas Independent School District | Dallas, TX Palmetto State School Counselor Conference | Myrtle Beach, SC
Daviess County Public Schools | Owensboro, KY The Rhodes School | San Diego, CA
Duncanville Independent School District | Dallas, TX Stanly County Schools | Albermarle, NC
Eastern Ohio Gifted Conference | Canfield, OH Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) Conference | San Jose, CA
Education Service Center Region 7 | San Augustine, TX Temple Sinai | Atlanta, GA
Education Service Center Region 8 | Pittsburg, TX Tennessee Administrator Leadership Institute, Murfreesboro, TN
Education Service Center Region 13 | Austin, TX Texas Association for the Gifted Conference | Fort Worth, TX
Education Service Center Region 14 | Abilene, TX Vanderbilt Parent Series | Nashville, TN
Education Service Center Region 19 | El Paso, TX Vanderbilt Speech and Language Conference | Nashville, TN
Ensworth School - Nashville, TN Virginia School Counselor Conference | Hampton, VA
Fayette County | Lexington, KY Wake County Parent Series | Raleigh, NCThe Watson Institute | Sewickley, PA
Grand Prairie Independent School District | Grand Prarie, TX Warren County Public Schools | Bowling Green, KY
Hamilton Southeastern Schools | Fishers, IN The Watson Institute | Sewickley, PA
Harding Academy | Nashville, TN Williamson County Schools | Franklin, TN
Indiana School Counselor Conference | Indianapolis, IN
Illinois School Counselor Conference | Itasca, IL
Irving Independent School District | Dallas, TX
Kentucky School Counselor Conference | Lexington, KY
Kings College School | Cascais, Portugal
Lone Star State School Counselor Conference | Frisco, TX
Maury County Schools | Columbia, TN
“You were amazing and such an easy to follow speaker. You spoke with poise and wisdom and with authenticity. That is hard to find these days and I truly appreciate your boldness to keep it real for us.”
“THE PROGRAM WAS A SLAM DUNK!
Allison was terrific, and really seemed to reach our audience’s concerns. I have heard nothing but glowing comments.”
“Our counselors love your practical strategies they can implement immediately. ”