Who We Train
Training experiences are designed to support interdisciplinary teams working with children across educational, clinical, and community settings.
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Schools & Educational Teams
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Occupational, Physical & Speech Therapy Clinics
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Pediatric Healthcare Teams
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School Districts & Special Education Programs
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Universities & Professional Training Programs
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Conferences & Professional Organizations
Signature Programs
Professional development and implementation-focused training designed for schools, therapy teams, clinics, educators, and interdisciplinary professionals.
EFX Assessment & Clinical Reasoning™:
A Body-First Approach to Understanding Executive Function Access
Learn to identify where executive function access is breaking down using the Executive Function Express™ framework and the EFX-AP™ assessment.
Topics include:
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Executive function access vs. executive function skill
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Clinical reasoning using the EFX Method
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Administering and interpreting the EFX-AP™
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Moving from assessment to intervention
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Case studies and treatment planning
Executive Function Express™: Building Executive Function Through Movement, Participation, and Meaningful Experience
A practical intervention framework that helps children develop executive function through visual supports, movement, and real-life participation.
Topics include:
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The Executive Function Express™ framework
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Supporting initiation, planning, organization, flexibility, and self-monitoring
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Visual tools and environmental supports
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Applying the framework across home, school, and clinic
From Roots to Fruit™
Interoception and Executive Function connection
Learn how sensory processing, regulation, and interoception shape participation and provide the foundation for executive function.
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The Integrated Interoception Tree Model™
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Regulation before performance
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Looking beneath behavior
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Participation-focused intervention
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Neurodiversity-affirming clinical reasoning
Specialized Professional Development
Movement, Regulation & Executive Function
Why the Body Matters
Discover how movement, posture, sensory processing, regulation, and environmental supports create the conditions that allow executive function to emerge during everyday participation.
Documentation Bootcamp™
Make Clinical Reasoning Visible
Build stronger, participation-focused documentation that reflects evidence-informed clinical reasoning, supports medical necessity, and clearly communicates the value of occupational therapy.
Neuro-Affirming Clinical Practice
Supporting Participation Through Strengths-Based Care
Explore practical strategies for creating respectful, collaborative, body-first interventions that honor neurodiversity while supporting meaningful participation across home, school, and community settings.
🎯 Customized Professional Development
Training Designed for Your Team
Looking for something specific? Workshops can be tailored to your organization's goals, clinical setting, audience, and professional development needs while incorporating the Executive Function Institute's body-first, participation-focused approach.
Training Formats
Training experiences can be customized to meet the needs of your organization, staff, audience, and implementation goals.
Keynote Presentations
Engaging, research-informed presentations designed to inspire new ways of thinking about regulation, participation, executive function, and behavior.
Virtual Trainings
Flexible online learning experiences designed for schools, clinics, organizations, and interdisciplinary teams.
Half Day & Full Day
Workshops
Interactive experiences that combine clinical reasoning, practical application, case examples, and implementation strategies.
Custom Team Trainings
Tailored training experiences designed around the unique needs, populations, and goals of your organization or staff.
Marie, LCSW
This is one of the best webinars I have attended. The presenter did a perfect job, very professional, passionate, and generous for all the information she shared with us
Holly, OTR
I love her (Cara's) positive energy and enthusiasm. She was very enjoyable to listen to, created a positive learning environment, and was very knowledgeable about her subject. She really helped me put myself in my patient's shoes and try to understand what they are experiencing.
Patricia, OT
This was one of the most informative workshops I have ever attended as a 40+ year career OT!
Bring This Training to Your Organization
The Executive Function Institute™ provides body-first professional development experiences designed to help teams better understand regulation, participation, executive function, interoception, and behavior through an access-based lens.
Training experiences are available for:
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schools
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therapy clinics
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pediatric healthcare teams
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districts
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conferences
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universities
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interdisciplinary organizations
Sessions can be customized to meet the needs of your audience and implementation goals.
Cara Koscinski, OTD, MOT, OTR/L, CAS
Dr. Cara Koscinski is a pediatric occupational therapist, speaker, author, and founder of the Executive Function Institute™. She is known for her body-first, strengths-based approach to executive function, interoception, regulation, and participation.
Drawing from decades of clinical experience and personal experience raising her autistic child, Cara helps professionals, schools, and families better understand the connection between the brain, body, behavior, and access. She is the creator of The Integrated Interoception Tree Model™ and Executive Function Express™, practical frameworks designed to make complex concepts more understandable and actionable across everyday environments.
Through trainings, courses, resources, and speaking engagements, Cara provides neuro-affirming, practical strategies that help children build participation, confidence, and meaningful access to daily life.
Meet Your Presenter
Why Organizations Choose EFI
PRACTICAL
Participants leave with strategies they can use immediately.
EVIDENCE-INFORMED
Grounded in current research and decades of clinical experience.
NEURODIVESITY-AFFIRMING
Respectful, strengths-based approaches that support meaningful participation.
ENGAGING
Visual models, real-world cases, and interactive learning.