Consultation
Consultation for Preschools, Centers, and Teaching Teams
Consultation helps schools, centers, directors, and teaching teams make sense of escalating behavior, educator exhaustion, strained relationships, and classroom dysregulation.
Will anything help this student be less challenging?
Dr. Katie Statman-Weil, LCSW offers consultation to teachers and schools in Portland, Oregon and online nationwide. Katie has direct experience working as a preschool teacher, center director, early childhood college professor, and early childhood mental health consultant. Katie understands what it feels like to work with children with big, confusing, and challenging behaviors in the classroom.
Katie's teacher consultations help shift perspectives on children exhibiting challenging behaviors to find lasting strategies that calm the chaos and bring more joy into the teaching experience.
Through relational, trauma-responsive, and neuroaffirming approaches Katie supports teachers in moving beyond crisis management and toward classrooms where both students and educators can feel more regulated, capable, and connected.
Katie truly cared about us and our growth as an educator. She catered to our needs greatly.
When Consultation Helps
For teams that are trying hard and still feeling stuck
Consultation is a fit when current strategies are not creating enough calm, safety, or clarity for the child, the adults, or the larger classroom community.
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A student's behaviors have continued to escalate despite the many interventions, strategies, and supports your team has already tried.
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Your staff feels emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, or constantly "on edge" while trying to manage the intensity of the classroom environment.
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The relationship between educators and the student feels increasingly strained, disconnected, or stuck in cycles of conflict and dysregulation.
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Supporting one child's needs has begun to impact the well-being of the larger classroom community, staff morale, or team cohesion.
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Teaching teams feel discouraged, ineffective, or uncertain about how to move forward in a way that truly supports the child.
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You find yourselves spending most of the day reacting to crises rather than teaching, connecting, and building a positive classroom culture.
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Staff members are struggling to balance compassion for the child with the very real stress and demands of the situation.
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You worry about whether your current approaches are helping, or unintentionally increasing stress, shame, or dysregulation for the child.
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Your team is looking for a more relational, trauma-responsive, and neuroaffirming framework for understanding and responding to behavior.
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You want practical, sustainable strategies that support both the child and the adults caring for them.
Consultation Lens
Practical strategy without losing the emotional reality of the work
The work looks at both the child's experience and the educator's experience, then helps the team identify supports that are relational, trauma-responsive, neuroaffirming, and sustainable.
Share the classroom situation, team needs, and timeline in your inquiry so Katie can help determine whether consultation or broader professional development is the better fit.
- Case-specific support for one child, classroom, teaching team, or organization.
- A practical look at what behavior may be communicating beneath the surface.
- Attention to the educator's stress and capacity, not only the child's behavior.
- Relational, trauma-responsive, and neuroaffirming strategies the team can sustain.
Inquire about consultation
Share a little about your organization, audience, timeline, and what your educators are facing. Katie can follow up about professional development, keynotes, or consultation.