Reimagining Behavioral Health and Special Education Through a Neuroscience Lens
This program is a comprehensive professional development opportunity that meets the Behavioral Health and Special Education Requirements for Colorado Educators. The course may meet requirements for relicensure in other states and countries as well.
Unlock the science, soul, and systemic wisdom behind today’s most vital educational shift. This dynamic 10-part video series empowers educators, school leaders, and support professionals to build trauma-informed, neurotype-responsive environments where every learner can thrive.
From the first foundational step, defining behavioral health within the educational landscape, to exploring the neurobiology of regulation, the architecture of safety and belonging, and the frameworks that bring empowerment-focused practices to life, this program delivers actionable insight with heart and precision.
Each module is a deep dive into practical strategies and transformative mindsets: Practical and visionary, this program bridges evidence-based neuroscience with policy, relational teaching, and legal clarity, without losing the emotional heartbeat of education. Whether you’re designing learning spaces, supporting complex behaviors, or decoding acronyms like FAPE, MTSS, and IDEA, these modules meet you where you are and move you toward systemic coherence.
Let’s move beyond interventions and into transformation. Your classroom, your school, and your students deserve it.
Happy Learning,
Judy Norman
Navigating the Learning Platform:
Click here to watch a 5-minute video that will walk you through the learning platform and show you where to find everything you need to be successful in this course. While watching this video, and all videos, the images you see below will be in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, to turn on closed-captioning, simply click on the cc icon (it is circled in red below), you will have the option of choosing English auto-generated captions, or customizing the captions.
Meet Your Instructor:
Judith Norman, MA, MS, LPC, RPT-S is Licensed as both a Professional and School Counselor. Judith is the creator of the Developmental Mindsets Paradigm, is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and is also Certified as a Synergetic Play Therapy® Teacher and Supervisor, and in EMDR therapy, along with being trained in Mindfulness in Education. She has been utilizing the tenets of Synergetic Play Therapy® in educational settings for the past 10 years, leading to the development of social-emotional, trauma-informed programming to support students and educators.
Judith has been a School Counselor at Title One schools and two-way bilingual immersion schools, has worked at the district level as a Social Emotional Learning Coach in the United States, and as a School Counselor and Director of Guidance at an international school overseas. Having worked at the intersection of education and mental health for over 20 years, Judith trains and supervises both school-based and clinical mental health professionals. Judith speaks nationally, and consults, and teaches internationally, has developed SEL and trauma-informed programming across various levels of school functioning, and has supported Department of Education state-wide initiatives with district and state-wide training for educators, school-based mental professionals, and educational leaders. Judith led her school district in implementing a Kaiser Permanente “Thriving Schools Grant,” aimed at advancing social-emotional wellness and behavioral health in school districts. Judith co-authored a chapter with Lisa Dion in “Play-Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families.”
To get started and begin accessing the program lessons, you will first need to complete and agree to the Program Agreements. Please click on “Behavioral Health Program – Program Agreements” under “Course Content” below to begin!