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Experience & Education

April Welch, Organizing Expert, is the proud owner of The Mental Clutter Coach & Simply Organized Online [dot] com

Listed below are the many classes she has taken, certificates she has earned, accreditations she holds along with the active public speaking schedule she performs

April works hard to make sure her clients have the highest quality of service available. Rest assured, her commitment to helping clients find an improved quality of life is fed by her passion to listen, assess and guide them to answers that work for them.

Accreditations

Certified Professional Organizer, BCPO (NAPO), 2007
Completed Organizer Coach Training, Coach Approach for Organizers, 2010
ADD Specialist, NSGCD
CD Specialist, NSGCD
{CD: Chronic Disorganization}

NSGCD Certificates of Study in:

Chronic Disorganization (CD)
CD Client Administration
Basic Hoarding Issues with the CD client
Basic ADD Issues with the CD Client
Basic Mental Health Conditions
Understanding the Needs of the Elderly CD Clients
Learning Styles & Modalities
Understanding the Needs of the Student CD Client
Basic Physical Conditions Affecting the CD Client

**NSGCD is the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization**
**NAPO is the National Association of Professional Organizers**
**BCPO is the Board of Certification for Professional Organizers**

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Experience

Spokesperson for ListPlanIt, ’10
Franklin Covey Family Organizing Guru, ’08
Inaugural Certified Professional Organizer, ’07
Entrepreneur of the Year Nominee, ’07
Paid Professional Organizer, since ’04
Organizational Consultant ~ unpaid, since ’93
Executive Administrative Assistant, 10 years
Stay-At-Home Mom, 10 years

Public Speaking / Instruction

Spring 2010

Mom 2.0 Summit:
- “Clearing Mental Clutter”
NAPO Seattle:
- Strategies for the Cluttered Client {3/2}
- Ask the Organizer Panel {3/6}
WA State Hoarding Task Force:
- Inaugural 2 day Tele-Summit
US Forest Service Northern Regional University:
- Business Organizing Series {x2}
NAPO National
- Ask the Organizer Panel

Wenatchee Valley College - Continuing Education Instructor

Fall ’09

Business Organizing Series:

Clearing the Clutter in your Office
Effective Systems … Productive Space
Paper, Piles & Projects
Time Management for the Professional

Organizing Your ADD at Home & Work
Students, Parents & Systems: Find Solutions that Work
Holiday Strategies 101
Healthy Shopping Habits that Save You Money

Summer ’09

Closet Organizing: De-clutter, Cash in & Re-purpose what you already have!
Simplified Family “Stay-cations” or Vacations
Cutting Clutter at home & work
Organizing your ADD in the Home & Workplace
Paper Clutter Demystified
Garage Organization
Save Money with Meal Planning 101
Students, Parents & Systems: How to find solutions that work!

Spring ’09

Business Organizing Series

Clearing the Clutter in your Office
Effective Systems … Productive Space
Paper, Piles & Projects
Time Management for the Professional

Fall ’08

Holiday Organizing
Small Office, Home Office: Organizing Techniques
Meal Planning
Filing Fundamentals

Spring ’08

Family Organization
Closet Organizing 101
Garage Organizing
Savvy Travel Organizing

Winter ’08

Kitchen Organization
Meal Planning
Cutting Clutter
Family Organization

Fall ’07

Working with the Child Client: Bringing Balance to Families, NAPO-SF

Education:

Conferences:

NSGCD Fall Forum, 2006

Organizing for your Brainstyle
Decision Styles
Frame Styles: Integrating Multiple Intelligences & Learning Styles

NAPO Bay Area Regional Conference, 2006

Adding Home Staging to your Organizing Business
Space Planning 101
The Power of the Compassionate Heart

NSGCD Annual Conference, 2007

Case Studies
Collaborations in Estate Organizing
Collaborations with Goverment Agencies
The Collaborative Solutions Approach
An introduction to Collaborative Therapy
OK, Who put the ketchup in the linen closet again?
Creating Synergy: Collaborating with Government Agencies
Putting Collaboration into Practice

NSGCD: The Collaborative Therapy for Clutter Management Workshop, 2007

An Introduction to Collaborative Therapy
Advanced Applications in Collaborative Therapy

NAPO National Conference, 2007

Understanding Grief & Loss in the Organizing Process
The Next Big Thing
Alphabet Soup for Professional Organizers
The New Organizing Paradigm: Working with a Shifting Network of Partners
Virtually There: Serving Clients Throughout the World Without Leaving your Office

NAPO Bay Area Regional Conference, 2007

Balance Stamina
Tech Savvy Organizing
Face Reading
Working with the Child Client: Bringing Balance to Families (Presenter)

NSGCD Fall Forum, 2007

Conquering Chronic Disorganization (CD): Then & Now
Perfectionists & Pleasers
Techniques for Overcoming Procrastination
Strategies for Improving Decision Making & Other Issues Affecting Adults with ADD
Buried in Treasures: the psychology of compulsive hoarding
Motivational Interviewing Workshop
Facilitating Freedom for our clients

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Training:

Completed Level III training in Chronic Disorganization, NSGCD {2008-2009}

NSGCD Teleclasses:

ABC’s of education: An overview
ADD & addiction
ADD, chronic disorganization & the organizing process
Aging in place
Assisting clients living & working with learning disabilities in adulthood
Assisting the traumatic brain injured client
Backsliding
Basic ADD
Basic CD
Basic safety with CD clients
Boundaries & ethics
Collaborative Therapy for CD clients & organizers advanced: Part II
Compulsive hoarding & acquiring: approach with caution. A team approach is the way to go
Conscious Consuming: Empowering ourselves & modeling for others
Current research on the meaning of possessions during life transitions
Decision Making skills for the indecisive ADD, LD & CD clients
Depression in the elderly client
Environmental safety – staying healthy, feeling good on the job site
Epilepsy & Disorganization
Fidget to Focus: At home (part 1)
Helping young adults with AD/HD transition to independent adulthood
Introduction to Compulsive Hoarding
Introduction to learning styles & differences
Letting go: the process & meaning of dispossession in the lives of consumers
Locating mental health resources within your community
Nonverbal Communication
Normalizing ADD
Organizing for your personality type
Organizing for personality types
Panel discussion: First session strategies
Relocation stress syndrome & CD clients
Research Based Techniques to use when dealing with CD clients undergoing life transitions
Resources for investigating physical & mental health condition affecting your chronically disorganized clients
Strategies & resources to assist clients with recycling
Strategies for becoming an effective change agent
Strategies for working with ADD clients by phone
Students in transition
Supporting clients with intellectual & cognitive challenges
Time Management for the student or adult ADD/CD client
Understanding the effects of addiction & the CD client relationship
Understanding the mental health conditions affecting the CD client
Understanding the mind styles model of learning/processing
Understanding the physical & mental challenges of elderly CD clients
Virtual Organizing: Intro to a new frontier for NSGCD professionals & their CD clients
What is an anxiety disorder?
Working with auditory learners
Working with adults with hearing impairment & auditory processing disorders
Working with clients in transition
Working with CD elderly clients downsizing their homes
Working with physically challenged CD clients
Working with visual learners
Your client’s personal alphabet

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