Camp-Ready Kids: Building an Emotional Camp Toolkit for Your Child
Join Lauren Feiden, PsyD and Elizabeth Gellman, PsyD in collaboration with Summer 365 for Camp-Ready Kids: Building an Emotional Camp Toolkit for Your Child. This is a webinar designed for parents who are sending or are thinking about sending their children to summer camp. Whether your child is attending day camp or sleepaway camp it is essential that campers be set up to have the most successful summer possible. While stressors may be unavoidable throughout the summer, this webinar will help provide you and your child with a toolkit for best managing stressful situations and difficult emotions.
Learning Objectives
- Understand potential emotional triggers that can happen at camp
- Identify concrete skills to teach your children how to best handle high emotions
- Identify coping skills to regulate emotions, ask for help when needed and communicate most effectively
About Instructors
Dr. Lauren Feiden is a New York State licensed psychologist (#020219). She earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from McGill University and her graduate degree in Clinical Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where she specialized in child and adolescent treatment. Dr. Feiden completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Andrus Children’s Center in Westchester, NY, where she provided individual, family, and group therapy and completed her formal training as a Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) therapist with a within-agency trainer.
Dr. Feiden has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families facing a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges, including anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and disruptive behavioral disorders. She is formally trained in evidence-based therapies such as PCIT and has supervised clinicians in training across various therapeutic modalities. Dr. Feiden has provided treatment in diverse settings, including community mental health centers, inpatient and partial hospitalization programs, private practice, and as an assistant director at Big Apple Day Program’s summer treatment camp. She is also experienced in working within New York City private schools, including those with progressive and special education programs, as well as supporting families navigating the social and emotional aspects of sleepaway camps, drawing on her own background as a camper and staff member.
Dr. Feiden has led groups for children, adolescents, adults, and families focused on enhancing social skills, managing divorce and separation, coping with grief, improving emotional regulation, fostering positive self-concept, and strengthening the parent-child relationship. In addition to her formal training in PCIT, she is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), parent training, and play therapy. Dr. Feiden adopts an integrative treatment approach, tailoring her strategies to each client’s unique needs, symptoms, and goals. She is committed to working collaboratively with individuals and their families to develop personalized treatment plans that promote meaningful growth and positive outcomes.
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Dr. Gellman is a New York and Florida licensed psychologist. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Duke University and her doctorate degree in Clinical-School Psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at Montefiore Medical Center and her post-doctoral fellowship at The Center for Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (CCDBT).
Dr. Gellman has received extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy for trauma. She has provided treatment to children, adolescents, adults, and families with anxiety, mood, behavioral and personality disorders in a variety of settings, including schools, community mental health clinics, private group practice and hospitals.
Prior to working in private practice, Dr. Gellman worked as a clinical staff psychologist at CCDBT. At CCDBT, Dr. Gellman conducted diagnostic intake evaluations, provided individual CBT and DBT and co-led DBT skills groups for adolescents and adults. Dr. Gellman also served as a supervisor for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees. Serving as an Executive Mindfulness Trainer within CCDBT’s Corporate Mindfulness Training program, Dr. Gellman led mindfulness workshops in various settings and co-led CCDBT’s 8 week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course. She also has provided various CBT, DBT, and mindfulness trainings and workshops for doctoral students and professionals and currently partners with New York City schools to provide workshops for school personnel.
