The Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Partnership between the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) and the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health (MassAIMH) is pleased to share our 10-month Reflective Consultation Offering for 2025-2026 consisting of web-based group reflection experience with a MassAIMH Endorsed®/vetted provider. This offering is in service of our ongoing commitment to diversify and strengthen the early childhood workforce by creating equitable access to reflective consultation and will take place from September 2025 – June 2026.

Reflective Consultation (RC) is a form of ongoing professional development that supports professionals in their ability to understand, make meaning of and manage the intense situations and emotions experienced in their work and impacts better practice and care. Reflective Consultation provides a relational space to offer nurturing to those who nurture others. It is considered best practice in the infant and early childhood field for direct workforce, supervisors and systems leaders and is proven to reduce burnout, vicarious trauma, increase job satisfaction, and help professionals to assess and improve their own practice.

Reflective Consultation Group Sessions: What to Know

• RC Group sessions are a 10 month commitment from September 2025 to June 2026
• RC groups are multidisciplinary groups
• Sessions are virtual, meeting twice a month (20 total sessions)
• Session duration is 90 mins per session (Totaling 30 hrs of Reflective Consultation)
• These 30 hrs will count towards the requirement for MassAIMH Endorsement®
• 5 hours of training; which includes a Reflective Consultation Training Part 1 and Virtual Kick-off session scheduled for September 24th 2025 from 9 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and a 2 hr Reflective Consultation Training Part 2 in January 2026 (Date TBD). These 5 hrs of training are REQUIRED.
• Each group is facilitated by a MassAIMH Endorsed® professional
• The group facilitator’s name and contact information will be shared with participants the first week of September, along with the first session time and date.
• Each group facilitator, with input from the respective participants, decides the ongoing meeting days and times for the remaining 10 month experience.

COST*

Due to the current fiscal climate, we are not able to cover the cost as we have done in the past through grants and contracts. Despite this, we know that there is still great interest from the workforce in receiving Reflective Consultation and we are committed to continuing to offer them. Holding the Diversity Informed Tenets as central, we want to make sure that the burden of cost does not fall on the individual professional, and so we encourage you to reach out to the leadership of your organization or system to cover the costs.

*Enclosed HERE is a sample letter for your supervisor/organization to support your participation 

$2000 / person for the whole series (Payment plans may be available based on need)
Series includes 30 hours of RC + 5 hours of RC training (divided across the series)

Application Deadline : August 29th, 2025