Hardy Consulting

04/20/2026

Join me for Improv for Social Anxiety in May!

01/06/2026

The registration page for February's Improv Therapy Group is now available-

Geek Therapy is an innovative and highly effective approach that integrates your passions, interests, and fandoms into the therapeutic process. This approach is about meeting you where you are. Instead of simply talking about your feelings in the abstract, we can use the characters, stories, and mec...

12/09/2025

A new 4 week improv therapy group happening in February 2026!

12/09/2025

I have been dreaming of this group for a long time and it is finally happening! A 4-week, improv therapy group, focused on anxiety, social and emotion skills and fun! And even though I am rarely on Facebook, I fully understand the power of social media, so please share :)

09/07/2024

How to Host Safer Events
Saturday, September 14, 2024

10-11:30am PT • 11am-12:30pm MT • Noon-1:30pm CT • 1-2:30pm ET • 2-3:30pm AT • 2:30-4pm NT

Are you organizing an event?

Whether it’s a march or rally, a digital webinar or panel, an info table, or any other type of activism – it’s critical to protect the safety of all participants and the public, and the integrity of the event itself.

Do you need safety marshals and what’s their job? How will you deal with police or right-wing protesters? What are ways to prevent Zoom bombing or other online mishaps?

Find out these strategies and more at our next ARCC Activist workshop.

08/27/2024

a long weekend is coming up, don't forget to refill your prescriptions 🙂

07/24/2024

I am reposting this on my business page but I want to be clear, I am not hosting as a therapist :) Improv can 100% be therapeutic but for this class, I'm just Shannon, lover of improv and fun.

07/22/2024

05/28/2024

Huge thank you to the Annapolis Valley Regional Library for having me speak at their annual staff training day and being the best audience!!!!! Speaking in person is such a different experience than Zoom and all of you were so thoughtful and responsive! Thank you again for inviting me 📚🌈

https://www.facebook.com/AVRLibrary

The Annapolis Valley Regional Library is a public library with 11 branches in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Visit us online at http://www.valleylibrary.ca

03/03/2024

THIS!!!! There is no valour in the struggle, make living as easy as possible

This feels so much like the exact heart of occupational therapy. And maybe that's why I feel like it overlaps so hard with my parenting style...because I'm also on a mission to just try to instill these things in the next generation from the beginning, instead of having to re-teach them again as adults.

WHY FADE SUPPORTS THAT WORK? I'll have kids on my caseload who have been doing great with some particular support for weeks, months, years, and then the push becomes to try to remove that support or fade it so that the child doesn't "depend" on it anymore.

Let me be clear: if the child is the one driving that push, because they don't want the support in place, that's a wholly different thing. (Unless the reason for them not wanting it is because adults have shamed them into feeling "babyish" for it or whatever.)

But if the adults have just arbitrarily decided that the child needs to stop relying on something that works for them, nah. I'm not here for that. The world has so many things, so many supports, so much technology, so much access. If we're arbitrarily limiting ourselves from it for absolutely no real reason, then I'm not here for that.

Start by asking yourself what's the reason you feel like you can't/shouldn't use xyz (or your child can't/shouldn't). If you don't have any reason...well, then, there you go.

[Image description: A tumblr post which reads, "This is your daily reminder not to be ashamed of making your life easy for yourself.
Cut your food into small pieces, make the font size 30 on your e book, use straws to drink, get a pen that's comfortable to hold, take more naps, walk slowly, eat another cookie, buy velcro shoes, re-watch the part you couldn't understand the first time, write things on your hands so you don't forget it...whatever you want and/or need
Don't let anyone tell you how you should be doing things. We don't need to prove each other anything"]