The Millennial Mothers Treatment Training

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Kayla Huszar, RSW, CC PMH Related seminars and products

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Kayla Huszar, RSW, CC-PMH, Certified Expressive Arts Therapy (Level 2), and Certified Fair Play Facilitator, is a registered social worker specializing in maternal mental health, ADHD mom of two, camp wife, solo parent 50% of the time, and feminist. Previously working in non-profits with families in crisis, Kayla’s personal experience with undiagnosed anxiety - which turned out to be undiagnosed ADHD layered with people-pleasing, toxic guilt, and perfectionism - ignited her desire to support mothers and challenge the impossible standards placed on modern motherhood.

 

Between her two pregnancies, she pursued training in expressive art therapy, discovering that therapeutic art and mindfulness practices not only healed her anxiety but also prevented a relapse into symptoms bordering on OCD with her second pregnancy, cementing her belief that creativity is a missing pillar of maternal mental health. “There’s something in me that KNOWS if moms, and women who mother others well, are okay, the rest of humanity will be okay, too.”

 

She started her private practice in 2017 when her first son was two, providing therapy and support for mothers experiencing guilt, rage, burnout, and identity loss. While learning more about the field, Kayla completed training with Postpartum Support International and the Perinatal Mental Health Certification Program. Over the years she has broadened her area of specialty to include ADHD in mothers and equitable division of labor in families.
She has worked as a consultant providing corporate training to organizations such as BMO on mental load and invisible labor. Her work has been featured in Maclean’s magazine
(2025), on CBC’s The Current (2025), and on Life with Elyse (formerly Trailercast). She hosts the Chill Like a Mother podcast, bringing nuanced conversations about maternal rage, guilt, and the gap between gentle parenting ideals and real-life motherhood.

 

Kayla offers education and training to other professionals through her signature MOM SPACE CARE Method, a comprehensive framework for treating millennial maternal mental health. She is completing her ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) certification practice hours.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kayla Huszar maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kayla Huszar has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Program Information

You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Identify interventions that support parental brain health during periods of increased neuroplasticity.
2. Apply trauma informed parenting interventions shown to reduce harsh parenting and improve maternal representations.
3. Examine matrescence as a sensitive neurodevelopmental period associated with increased cognitive load and how sustained maternal cognitive demands may influence long term cognitive adaptation.
4. Apply compassionate mind training techniques to activate soothing affect systems and reduce self criticism in mothers with high shame, particularly those with trauma histories.
5. Use the “Seeing Red” three stage framework to assess maternal anger triggers, management strategies, and outcomes.
6. Apply music interventions, particularly singing, to support parent child attachment outcomes including bonding, emotional co regulation, and parental sensitivity.

Outline

Understand Why Traditional Approaches Fall Short for Millennial Mothers

• Understand current prevalence and presentation of mental health in mothers
• Defy the sociocultural pressures unique to millennials
• Matrescence and the transition to motherhood as a neurodevelopmental stage
• Assessment and screening considerations when working with millennial moms

Therapeutic Arts, Emotional Regulation & Somatic-Based Interventions

• Clinical somatic and creative interventions to supplement talk therapy
• Clinical creative interventions to supplement talk therapy
• Clinical interventions to turn over reactive responses in healthy boundary setting skills
• Clinical discernment skills to know when to implement nervous system interventions
• Risks and limitations of research

Identify and Address Identity Loss in Millennial Mothers

• Clinical skills to help clients identify who they are beyond “mom”
• Creative, experiential interventions for identity exploration
• Strategies to reduce over intellectualization and support embodied self awareness
• Interventions that rebuild agency, desire, and self-trust during matrescence

Breaking Cycles and Family Patterns

• Defy intergenerational trauma and inherited patterns impact maternal mood
• Applied clinical interventions for reparenting work
• Tools to interrupt automatic family of origin responses in real time
• Strategies for building new relational templates

Clinical Interventions for Fostering Emotional Intelligence

• Clinical skills for teaching clients to feel without getting stuck
• Recognize and target dump scrolling and other avoidance behaviors
• Clinical skills for teaching clients to respond rather than react to triggers
• Clinical interventions for building emotional literacy and regulation capacity

Integration and Bringing Applied Skills Into Your Practice

• Treatment planning and choosing timing and interventions
• Therapist skills to stay grounded when clients bring rage, grief and overwhelm
• Adapting clinical interventions across different populations
• Explore clinicians take away and implementations to their practice

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Psychiatrists
• Social Workers
• Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
• Other Mental Health Professionals