Most approaches to behavior, learning, leadership, wellbeing, and performance focus on outcomes first.
The Regulation Shift™ begins earlier.
Because environments shape regulation.
And regulation shapes what people can access in the moment.
Under chronic stress, overload, fragmentation, or relational strain, access to reflection, flexibility, learning, communication, decision making, and sustainable functioning can narrow significantly over time.
This work focuses on understanding and strengthening the conditions shaping regulation, capacity, relationships, leadership, and development across individuals, families, organizations, and systems.
Grounded in developmental science, nervous system functioning, relational dynamics, and applied systems work, consultation is available across caregiving, educational, leadership, organizational, and interdisciplinary contexts.
Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Virtual consultation available.
INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY CONSULTATION
A 30-minute consultation session for parents, adults, educators, caregivers, or professionals seeking practical support, reflection, or guidance related to navigating emotional regulation challenges, anxiety, ADHD related difficulties, sensory overwhelm, executive functioning struggles, school stress, burnout, relational strain, transitions, or chronic overload.
This work focuses on understanding how nervous system states, environments, relationships, and accumulated stress shape functioning across home, school, work, and daily life.
Sessions are collaborative, reflective, and grounded in developmental, relational, and regulation informed understanding.
Consultation may support:
- emotional regulation and nervous system functioning
- ADHD and executive functioning
- school concerns, collaboration, and advocacy
- burnout, overload, and chronic compensation
- neurodivergence and environmental fit
- relational and environmental stressors
- regulation supportive approaches across environments
This is not therapy or crisis treatment.
$200 | 50 Minutes
LEADERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL CONSULTATION
A 60-minute strategic consultation session for leaders, educators, and helping professionals seeking support related to leadership functioning, implementation challenges, workforce wellbeing, organizational stress, or systems under pressure.
This work focuses on how pressure, systems conditions, relational dynamics, and organizational environments shape leadership functioning, communication, decision making, wellbeing, and sustainable capacity over time.
Sessions are collaborative, reflective, and grounded in developmental, relational, regulation informed, and systems oriented perspectives.
This is a space to slow down, think more clearly, explore patterns, and better understand the conditions shaping individual and organizational functioning over time.
Areas of focus may include:
- leadership functioning under pressure
- workforce wellbeing and burnout prevention
- emotional regulation and relational dynamics
- reflective leadership development
- implementation challenges and organizational strain
- communication and decision making
- regulation supportive leadership practices
- navigating complexity within human centered systems
$450 | 90 Minutes
ORGANIZATIONAL & SYSTEMS PARTNERSHIPS
Collaborative consultation supporting schools, organizations, early childhood systems, and interdisciplinary teams working toward sustainable implementation, workforce wellbeing, and systems development.
Partnerships may include:
• implementation support and strategy development
• workforce wellbeing and sustainability planning
• trauma sensitive and regulation supportive environments
• reflective consultation structures
• leadership facilitation and development
• interdisciplinary collaboration support
• organizational capacity building
• systems mapping and implementation infrastructure
• applied developmental and relational frameworks
• professional learning design and facilitation
Partnerships may range from short term consultation to ongoing implementation and systems collaboration.
CURRENT AREAS OF FOCUS
• emotional regulation across development
• ADHD and executive functioning
• neurodivergence and environmental fit
• sensory overload and cognitive load
• trauma sensitive and regulation supportive practice
• burnout, overload, and chronic compensation
• school and organizational environments
• relational dynamics and leadership functioning
• workforce wellbeing and sustainable systems
• implementation and systems change
ABOUT DR. TRACY LARSON
Dr. Tracy Larson is a developmental school psychologist, consultant, and systems thinker specializing in regulation, relational dynamics, leadership, and organizational functioning under pressure. Her work bridges developmental science, implementation practice, and real world systems challenges across education, early childhood, and interdisciplinary settings.
She currently serves as Director of Early Childhood Partnerships at the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Child Development, where she supports applied partnerships, leadership development, consultation infrastructure, and systems level implementation work across schools and organizations.
In addition to her systems and university based work, Dr. Larson independently provides consultation and learning experiences for parents, educators, leaders, organizations, and multidisciplinary teams seeking support related to regulation, behavior, learning, relational dynamics, stress, and environmental conditions that affect functioning over time.
Her experience includes consultation related to anxiety, emotional regulation, school related stress, neurodivergence, behavioral challenges, trauma, developmental differences, executive functioning, learning needs, family stress, and complex educational support planning.
Her approach is grounded in the understanding that behavior, learning, emotional regulation, relationships, and performance are deeply shaped by environment, stress, nervous system functioning, and relational experience. Rather than focusing only on changing individual behavior, her work helps people better understand the conditions influencing functioning in the first place.
Scope of Services
Consultation sessions and cohort experiences listed on this website are provided directly by Dr. Larson through The Regulation Shift and are separate from her role at the University of Pittsburgh.
These services are educational, consultative, and developmentally informed. They are not psychotherapy, psychological treatment, psychological assessment, diagnosis, medical advice, legal advice, or crisis services.
Participation in these offerings does not establish a therapy relationship, psychologist patient relationship, clinical treatment relationship, doctor patient relationship, or school based evaluation relationship.
For emergencies or crisis situations, contact 911, local emergency services, or an appropriate crisis support service.
CONNECT
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