11:00am Session
This presentation will give the attendees information on how yoga and mindfulness can beautifully complement the already existing Bounce Back and CBITS curriculum. These yoga and mindfulness techniques are inclusive and adaptable to be used with almost everyone – and they are trauma-informed. Providing yoga and mindfulness to students who may not have the access or ability to engage in these strategies helps create more equity in Connecticut’s behavioral health system.
About the Presenter
Elizabeth Gentile, LCSW, Bilingual School Social Worker
Stamford Public Schools
I am a bilingual (English/Spanish) Licensed and insured Clinical Social Worker with a specialization in providing psychotherapy to women and children. I graduated from Fordham University in 2006 with my MSW and have been working for the Stamford Public Schools in Connecticut since then. I also own and operate my own private practice since Spring of 2016 located in Norwalk, CT called Gentle Rock Therapy, LLC. I am especially passionate about helping Latino immigrant children and adolescents work through the trauma they have experienced. I have been a CBITS and Bounce Back clinician since 2015 and became a Bounce Back trainer in 2017.
During my work as a CBITS and Bounce back clinician, I became increasingly interested in combining yoga and mindfulness with CBITS and Bounce Back and in general in my practice. In 2018, I became a certified yoga and mindfulness instructor for children and adolescents and have found it to be incredibly complementary and beneficial to the already existing curriculum. In 2021, I was also trained as a STRONG clinician to further help serve the new arrival population, and in February of 2025 I became a STRONG trainer. My fluency in Spanish also allows for bilingual and Spanish-only speaking students to express themselves as needed to feel comfortable in the therapeutic process. I have always been interested and excited in how to best serve the students and clients I work with, and strive to continue to learn and improve my practice throughout my career.
