Speaking & Training
Hire Dr. Nay to Speak With Your Group. Perhaps you are involved with a community mental health group or agency and would like onsite training. Dr. Nay has trained over three thousand mental health professions in anger and conflict management, relationship and parenting issues.
Among topics for training and workshops:
- Anger Mangement: Individuals, High Conflict Relationships, Teens and Children
- Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment: Methods & Issues
- Training Parents in Child Behavior Management Techniques
- ADHD: Behavioral Interventions & Family Strategies
Or perhaps you are looking for a keynote speaker for a conference or a workshop for a group you serve, like: teachers, community volunteers, health professionals, parents, families, families of divorce. Or you may be involved with a group like a service club, PTA, school alumni association or similar organization that may seek an engaging and interesting, skilled speaker. Dr. Nay has spoken in front of thousands of mental health professionals, teachers, parents, substance abuse professionals and community leaders at conferences and meetings over the past 20 years and would be happy to provide references.
Topics he available to speak on include:
- 1 ADULT RELATIONSHIPS:
- “I don’t have the problem—you do!!”; How to identify if anger is harming your most important relationships and what to do about it.
- Good Communication in stressful times. Reviving good communication with your spouse, child or teen when schedules seem overwhelming. How to get started-How to sustain progress.
- Assertive Problem solving: A new approach to negotiating differences (tension, anger, conflict) in your marriage (relationships/ at work/in your family).
- Surviving difficult people (a difficult boss): How to communicate with virtually anyone while keeping your cool.
- 2 PARENTING ISSUES:
- When you’ve had it with your kids: How to keep your cool and stay the course.
- Setting limits and following through when your child is not cooperating.
- Your angry or defiant child: When is it time to be concerned and what to do about it?
- “An alien is living in my son’s body”: Coping with your angry and ‘disgusted’ adolescent. When is your teen’s anger a problem that must be addressed.
- Teen anger and depression: When to seek professional help.
- ADHD and acting out. How to determine if your child’s behavior at school and at home is a result of attention deficit disorder and what to do about it.
- OCD and your child. A cognitive-behavioral therapist explains what it is, how to treat it and what to expect.
- 3 OTHER TOPICS
- Stress Management: A short course in getting control of the stressors of your life before they control you.
- Stress and illness: the mind-body connection.
- Road rage: Keeping your cool when others don’t.
- Resentment and anger: When and how to forgive. When and how to move on.
- Anger and illness: Coping with the emotional pain of chronic pain.
How to schedule Speaking and Training
To discuss having Dr. Nay come and speak to your group or develop a training program please contact Dr. Nay or leave a message with your telephone number at his office at 703-893-3431, clearly stating your interests and time frame.


