Shana Schmidt

Conscious Discipline Certified Instructor

Newton, Kansas

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Shana Schmidt holds a masters degree in counseling with over 25 years working with children, adults, and families. Her professional career brings tons extensive experience in early childhood mental health and healing trauma to draw participants closer to who they want to be and how they want to serve others.

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Shana Schmidt holds a masters degree in counseling with over 25 years working with children, adults, and families as a therapist, family advocate, and behavioral coach. As an early childhood mental health and family specialist, her professional career brings extensive experience and healing to draw participants closer to who they want to be and how they want to serve others. She specializes in early childhood trauma and family repair.

Being a Certified Instructor since 2005 has taught Shana how to pull from her true core of self and create coaching and training opportunities that are unique, personal, and relatable.
Shana is an award-winning author of her book “Over Our Hearts: a mother’s journey learning to listen in,” a memoir story of her experiences as the mother of a teen parent. Endorsed by Dr. Becky Bailey, Shana’s book is described as “an unflinching and inspiring look at the emotions, challenges and relationship shifts that often come with a young teen’s pregnancy.”

With no shortage of stories, experiences, and challenges to pull from, Shana brings humor and joy to growth and opportunity.

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Experience

Shana has been a therapist, trainer, family advocate and behavioral coach since 1994.

Specialization

Shana specializes in early childhood trauma, healing, attachment and family repair.

Certification

Shana is a licensed professional counselor in the state of Kansas and holds an IMH-E(III) Endorsement as an Infant/Early Childhood Family Specialist.

Education

Shana earned a B.S. in Psychology from Emporia State University, and a Masters of Science in Community Mental Health & Counseling from Emporia State University.

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Three days with Shana Schmidt and Conscious Discipline simply changed my life and how I see children. I had been using CD for eight years but it wasn’t until her class that I finally “got it." I walked out with a new-found joy for my children and the tools to better meet their needs. I can’t thank her enough for reminding me of the importance of empathy and connections when working with children.

Michelle G.
Head Start Teacher, Kansas

As a director of an Early Childhood program we knew there had to be a better way to help staff and students. Shana’s ability to connect with a variety of staff and programs has been vital to our program. To achieve positive healthy outcomes we must have quality social-emotional support. Shana’s meaningful training and coaching techniques has increased our staff’s confidence and practice in each of the Conscious Discipline skills.

Jennifer B.
Director of Head Start, Futures-Unlimited, Inc.

Shana’s trainings are informative and engaging. She provides insight and clear understanding of the structures of Conscious Discipline. Staff are active learning participants throughout her trainings and come back with new ideas and enthusiasm. She is knowledgeable has a fun interactive presentation style.

Andy Hutchinson
Program Director, Head Start & Early Head Start

The Conscious Discipline training with Shana Schmidt was awesome! We came away with lots of practical tools for working with children, especially those who exhibit challenging behaviors. Shana taught us how to assess which part of the brain a child's behavior is coming from, and approach them from that place. Even though we were dealing with serious issues, Shana made the workshop fun and engaging. Her extensive background working with high needs children in a clinical setting, allows her to draw on real-world examples and anecdotes to demonstrate the concepts. We have a renewed resolve to make a connection and establish a relationship with every child in our care, in order to better serve their needs and create an environment where they feel a sense of safety and belonging. I would highly recommend Shana to any childcare or educational organization who works with children.

Jeanie Fuller
USD 373 Latchkey Director