Emotion Coaching for Caregivers

Overview

The family information and support program at The Royal is proud to present Emotion Coaching for Caregivers.

This free, two-part virtual workshop led by Royal social workers, Rob Nettleton and Amanda Rocca, will provide participants with an evidence-based advanced caregiving tool from Emotion-Focused Family Therapy that is effective across the lifespan. Whether you are supporting a child, a teen, a family member, or other loved ones, emotion coaching is an effective skill you can use to promote emotional development, behaviour change, and deepen your relationships with your loved ones.

Emotion coaching is a way of helping loved ones deal with different emotions. Coaching involves supporting loved ones to identify and name emotions, validating emotions, setting limits/boundaries, and providing emotional and/or practical support. Emotion coaching can promote emotional regulation, resilience and well-being.

In part one, participants will:

• Learn the theory of emotion coaching, validation, and emotion
• Learn to identify and label emotions
• Receive resources, handouts, and materials to develop their own emotion coaching script

In part two, participants will:

• Practice and develop their emotion coaching scripts in smaller groups with support from facilitators Rob and Amanda.

Please note:  Registration is unlimited for the first session, but will have a limit of 15 people per group for the second session.

Facilitators

Rob Nettleton, MSW RSW. Social Worker at The Royal

Rob Nettleton is a full-time Registered Social Worker and psychotherapist in The Royal’s Adult General Psychiatry outpatient program, where he provides treatment to adults struggling with trauma, anxiety and depression in addition to developing and facilitating emotion coaching workshops for caregivers and parents as part of holistic family-centred care. Outside of his work at The Royal, Rob maintains his small (but mighty!) private psychotherapy practice for teens and adults. He enjoys curling, writing non-fiction, and (whenever possible) playing video games.

Amanda Rocca, MSW RSW. Social Worker at The Royal

Amanda Rocca is a part-time Registered Social Worker and psychotherapist in The Royal’s Youth Psychiatry outpatient program, where she provides treatment to youth and young adults struggling with anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation and chronic emotion dysregulation. Amanda is passionate about including parents in treatment and empowering them to learn skills and be effective in supporting their loved one.