Dr. Portela has been teaching, mentoring, and training new counselors and seasoned mental health practitioners since 2004. She has taught numerous courses, including Play Therapy, Child and Adolescent Counseling, Human Sexuality, and Marriage and Family Systems. Dr. Portela also has presented at many national and international conferences.
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Training Offered
The following are some of the topics Dr. Portela has offered training on:
Play therapy with grieving children and youth
Treating developmental trauma and affect dysregulation
The basics of play therapy
Healing trauma with sandplay therapy
Connecting with our first language using sandplay and play therapy
Play therapy across the lifespan
Building a successful private practice
Overview of human sexuality
Aspects of sexuality that all clinicians need to understand
Eating disorder and the Latina population
Understanding and incorporating religion and spiritual traditions in therapy with Latinos
