Working with children, parents, and educators
Explore how to involve parents and collaborate with educators to support children experiencing challenges related to ADHD, ODD, trauma, behaviour, anxiety, and school avoidance.
Neuroaffirming · Trauma-informed · Anti-oppressive
Clinical Supervision for
Social Workers in Ontario
Virtual supervision and case consultation across Ontario for social workers and mental health professionals supporting children, families, and adults.
With Amanda Holland (Lafrance), MSW, RSW
8+ years in a children’s mental health day program, specializing in complex trauma and attachment
Fees: $145 / 1 hour session
Ongoing supervision: biweekly or monthly · Consultation: as needed
Bring a deeply neuroaffirming, anti-oppressive lens to your work with children and parents navigating school-related challenges, and adults making sense of childhood trauma or a late ADHD diagnosis.
Common Themes in Neuroaffirming Supervision
Goals and meaningful outcomes
Develop child-centred goals and recognize meaningful progress that reflects the needs and priorities of children and families.
Regulation and self-advocacy
Understand nervous systems and support regulation without reinforcing compliance or suppressing needs, while strengthening self-advocacy skills.
Neuroaffirming, trauma-informed care
Explore how trauma, attachment, and ableism shape nervous systems and identity, and how neurodiversity-affirming care can inform your approach.
Anti-oppressive practice
Understand distress, disability, and diagnosis in a systemic context. Explore the neurodiversity and pathology paradigms and what they mean for everyday practice.
Identity and resilience
Address internalized ableism and shame while strengthening neurodivergent resilience, recognizing protective factors, and making room for each person’s gifts and talents.
Ongoing reflective supervision
Ongoing clinical supervision
for social workers.
Biweekly or monthly, depending on your preference.
I offer ongoing reflective supervision virtually across Ontario for social workers and mental health professionals who want to bring their values more deeply into their everyday work. My approach centres trauma-informed care, neuroaffirming care, and anti-oppressive practice.
This supervision is particularly suited to social workers and other mental health professionals supporting children and parents, or late-diagnosed adults navigating ADHD, emotion regulation, and trauma.
It also offers space to reflect on children’s behavioural and school-related challenges, including school avoidance, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), demand avoidance (often discussed as PDA), and rejection sensitivity (often discussed as RSD).
Together, we examine how ableism, disability, power, and oppression shape clients’ experiences, and how these forces can show up in our own assumptions, relationships, and practice settings.
Regular sessions provide space to revisit your work over time, deepen your understanding, and reflect on how your approach is meeting the needs of children and families.
As-needed clinical consultation
Clinical consultation
for complex case questions.
Consultation is available virtually across Ontario on an as-needed basis for mental health professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of a particular case.
Bring the questions you are working through. Together, we can develop a case conceptualization that considers the client’s experiences, needs, relationships, and the systems around them, then explore meaningful goals and directions for care.
The common themes above can guide our conversation, including neuroaffirming, trauma-informed practice and strategies for working with educators and systems to advocate for affirming support.
Who this may support
Supervision for child therapists, school social workers, and adult ADHD therapists
School social workers
Reflect on the complexities of supporting children within school systems, with attention to disability, inclusion, power, and the wider conditions shaping a child’s experience.
Therapists working with children
Deepen your understanding of children struggling at school or at home, including children diagnosed with ADHD, ODD, or anxiety, and those experiencing school avoidance.
Supporting late-diagnosed adults with ADHD
Explore affirming approaches with adults who have received a late ADHD diagnosis, experienced difficult childhoods, or are making sense of shame and the impact of masking.
Your supervisor
Amanda Holland (Lafrance)
MSW, RSW
A person’s value is not determined by how convenient they are to a system.
Experience and education
I bring more than eight years of experience as a psychotherapist in a children’s mental health day program, supporting children who struggle in conventional school settings, with a specialization in complex trauma and attachment. I also work in private practice.
My strengths include involving parents in child therapy, collaborating with educators, and understanding behaviour and dysregulation within their social and systemic context. I take a compassionate view of parents and the important therapeutic role they can play in their child’s life.
Alongside my MSW, I hold a BA (Honours) in developmental psychology and have additional training in attachment-based therapeutic approaches, including CoS, DDP, and Theraplay.
In my clinical practice, I regularly use EMDR in combination with parts work, as well as the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions approach developed by Ross Greene. I am also in the process of outlining a clinical framework that aims to strengthen resilience for neurodivergent children called Delight-Centered Neuroaffirming Therapy (DCNT).
A little about me
I’m a woman, a mom, a wife, a big sister, an artist, and a late-diagnosed ADHDer. I too experience the daily struggles that come with ADHD qualities, and I am also grateful for the gifts that have enabled me to accomplish great things.
I bring curiosity, warmth, and a sense of humour to this work. There is room for serious reflection and for enjoying our time together.
More about my approach
I draw on attachment-based principles to support identity, self-esteem, and self-compassion. Together, we can explore ways to strengthen parent-child relationships, build resilience and protective factors, and approach problem-solving with compassion and accountability.
My focus is on understanding nervous system needs, caring for the body, and developing cooperative self-advocacy—not using regulation tools simply to secure compliance. When environments are inflexible, I support children and families in thoughtfully considering respectful refusal based on values, risks, and benefits involved.
I want to contribute to a world where each person’s value is discovered and nurtured with deep curiosity—a world that recognizes everyone has something wonderful and important to contribute. That commitment shapes my work with children navigating systems that struggle with inclusion, with parents, and with late-diagnosed adults.
Get in touch
Ask about supervision
or consultation
Share a little about your role and what you are looking for. You can send me a message here, or book a free 15-minute consultation to talk about whether we are a good fit.
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