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2025-26 Seminars:
Working with Suicide in School Settings: A Case Study Approach
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025
10:00-12:00 GMT
(18:00 Shanghai/13:00 Istanbul/11:00 Madrid/7:00 Buenos Aires/5:00 New York)
Presented by Alyssa Clayden, PhD, LICSW
Alyssa is a licensed clinical social worker who has provided international mental health care for more than two decades in a wide variety of settings. Alyssa works often with transgender and gender non-conforming folks, new and prospective parents (including infertility), folks with trauma experiences, and adolescents. Having lived, worked and raised a family across five continents, Alyssa is passionate about providing high-quality intersectional mental health care to people living and working internationally. She believes that every person brings expertise, strengths and skills to their lives and relationships. Alyssa teaches courses on equitable mental health care, and has particular interest in the impact of intersectional identities on mental health. Alyssa's academic research focuses on how mental health care can be improved for folks with diverse ethnic, cultural, linguistic, racial, religious and gender identities.
Professional Development Seminars
Seminars are offered twice per school year. Last year, topics were Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in Schools and Internal Family Systems. View the topics for this year below!
Reimagining School Counseling Frameworks: Aligning Practice with Student Experiences
Saturday, February 7, 2026
14:00-16:00 GMT
(22:00 Shanghai/17:00 Istanbul/15:00 Madrid/11:00 Buenos Aires/9:00 New York)
Christine Holmes, DSW, MSW, LICSW
Christine Holmes is a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate in social work from the University of Pennsylvania. She has over a decade of social work experience in the United States and overseas, including Cambodia, India and Indonesia. Christine has worked with adolescents, families and adults of all ages in outpatient and community-based settings. She has a particular interest in elder caregiving, and her research examines the burden of Foreign Service and military personnel caring for aging parents from a distance. In addition, Christine lectures on decolonizing social work to promote awareness of how contextual issues can influence one’s ability to realize their full potential. Her therapeutic orientation is primarily cognitive-behavioral with a relational-cultural lens to help people address obstacles to their well-being. Christine enjoys working with individuals and families to manage life transitions, grief and loss and other challenges, working toward a greater sense of peace and self-agency.