Hands-on training
Not just a lecture.
OUR TEAM
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Theo Tsaousides, Ph.D., ABPP
Co-founder and faculty
Theo Tsaousides is a rehabilitation neuropsychologist. His clinical and research background is on cognitive rehabilitation interventions. Theo is a clinical assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and has been on faculty at St. John’s University and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
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Teresa Ashman, Ph.D., ABPP
Co-founder and faculty
Teresa Ashman is a rehabilitation neuropsychologist and an associate professor at NYU Langone Medical Center and at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Teresa’s research focuses on psychosocial issues for people with brain injuries and other chronic health conditions, and has authored over fifty publications.
OUR WORK
We provide clinicians with hands-on training in evidence-based, well-established cognitive rehabilitation interventions. Our emphasis is on creating a learning experience that will not only provide you with information and knowledge, but it will also enable you to master skills that you can immediately put to practice and use with your clients.
You know the importance of using evidence-based practices. But you also know that to keep up with the science, it takes time and energy. You have to review journals regularly to see what’s new. You have to attend conferences to learn about new research findings and clinical approaches. And if you are lucky, you may attend a workshop that describes methods and techniques.
The work of cognitive rehabilitation professionals makes people’s lives better. If you work with people with changes in their cognitive abilities, you know how important your contribution is in helping them navigate daily life more easily, resume important activities, and life a productive and fulfilling life.
The research shows that it takes an average of 17 years for rehabilitation interventions to make it into mainstream practice. And that can happen only if there is a concerted effort by researchers to make the interventions they develop and test accessible. In fact, many of the interventions that are tested never become widely available to clinicians.
Having been both researchers and practitioners, we know how to tackle these challenges, and how to support cognitive clinicians working with people with cognitive impairments to update their existing skill set with new evidence-based interventions that they can begin using confidently and effectively.