Peer Consult Group :: Reflective Consultation in Child Development + Attachment

Gathering to consult with colleagues and explore the relational and countertransference dynamics of our work is essential.

We’ll add to that foundation with an awareness of how our clients’ nervous system states, and our own, can influence the trajectory of treatment.

This consultation group for child & family therapists is focused on experiential and somatic modalities—using relational neuroscience as a lens for understanding bio-psycho-social development, tuning into regulation, attachment, and felt safety. 

We'll ground our conversations in theory and collaborate to explore clinical case presentations, as well as our own needs for regulation and support to sustain this important work in a challenging world.

The focus of this series is consultation on clinical work with children, teens, and their families.

We are peers across private practice, community mental health, and agency settings. While not intended as pre-licensure supervision, this group is open to masters-level clinicians, including associates, offering an exquisite supplement to individual clinical supervision, as well as engaged support for mid-career clinicians. A diversity of training, practice settings, social / cultural contexts, and lived experiences will help us co-create a resourceful group.

You can expect to build:

• trauma-sensitive case conceptualization skills

• recognition of wide-ranging activation & dissociation responses

• practical paths toward regulation & felt safety in the playroom

• more sensitized radar for developmental trauma, systemic oppression, toxic stress

• insights for your own self-tending & resilience

• skills for supporting exhausted parents 

• more direct access to the sturdy joys of clinical work with children

This will be a really fun group—yes, despite the significance and complexity of challenges we will explore together—because joy and humor are essential tools in our repertoire. The myriad ways we balance our own stress load is relevant to our work with clients.

This series is offered in tandem with my on-going training in the Neurosequential Model for Reflective Supervision, braiding this group into my practice of developmental, somatic, nervous system-aware, attachment-focused assessment and collaborative support. I am invested in a solid six sessions of practice guiding psychoeducation around regulation, connection, & felt safety in our experiential format — and open to on-going support with folks who want to continue.

Spring 2026 :: 6 sessions on Zoom

1st & 3rd Thursdays - 12PM-1:15 Pacific 
March 19
April 2 + 16
May 7 + 21
June 4 

Equitable access includes tiered pricing. BIPOC, sole parents, LGBTQ+ providers, and clinicians of other marginalized social locations are invited to join us at a level that’s accessible—I trust your discernment regarding the rate that meets your resources.

• $300 reflects an adjusted rate as I continue my training in Reflective Consultation, bringing mindful experiments to our group

• $175 reflects the additional cost of time and energy required from many therapists of marginalized identities in sustaining a thriving practice. Use code EQUITY

Payment plan offered by request.

about me ::

I'm MereAnn Reid, LPC, RPT—LPC-Supervisor & Registered Play Therapist

In private practice for 17 years, my child & family therapy practice with kids age 3-14 is rooted in deep study of attachment, complex trauma, adoption & foster care dynamics, systems thinking, interpersonal neurobiology, and somatic perspectives on social-emotional growth and neurodivergence across the lifespan.

I'm fascinated by brain-body connections as building blocks of our neurodevelopment, social communication, and stress response systems—across treatment experiences ranging from encopresis and sleep issues to mental health aspects of autism & ADHD; grief, anxiety, aggression, and making sense of big behaviors as adaptations to stress. I enjoy collaborating with parents as partners in the playroom and working with teachers to wrap around kids in the community.

I am a cisgender, white, currently able-bodied, heterosexual clinician, who is married and parenting a teen. My commitment to anti-oppressive practice is outlined here.

Your questions are welcome — contact me

I’m happy to chat about whether the group may be supportive to your practice and look forward to honing our clinical work together in good company. 6 clinicians max.