Virtual Event: IECMH Guiding Principles in Practice: Reflective practice is an essential tool

Noelle Hause is the Senior Manager, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, for ZERO TO THREE’s Professional Innovations Division.

In her role, she works with a team to support the delivery of ZERO TO THREE’s professional development products and services. Specifically, Noelle leads and coordinates the delivery of Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood (DC:0–5™) and other Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health related national and international professional development offerings. Noelle, a licensed clinical provider, completed a postdoctoral Irving Harris Child Development and Infant Mental Health Fellowship in 2011. Her training includes multiple evidence-based interventions: Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Incredible Years Parent Group Facilitator (IY), Incredible Years Small Children’s Group Therapy, Parent Child Interactional Therapy (PCIT), Promoting Maternal Mental Health (NCAST) and Trauma Informed Care. Noelle holds an Infant Mental Health Mentor - Clinical endorsement (Endorsement® for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health - IMH-E ®).

In addition to her clinical work, Noelle brings experience in reflective supervision and consultation, and infant mental health endorsement. Her experience in developing training for professionals and student learning through higher education (in-person and virtual), focuses on growing capacity for families, professionals, and systems to support infant and early mental health. She has provided consultation across the early childhood field including home visiting, nursing, perinatal mental health, judicial, child welfare and fostering, and more.

Noelle is passionate about identifying opportunities for improving the capacity of caregivers, early childhood professionals, organizations, communities, and systems to provide quality mental health supports and early childhood education for infants and young children. She is committed to translating research into practice and using practice to inform research.

Karol Wilson is an author and an infant mental health expert and leader. She is a retired supervisor, trainer and mentor who has shared her knowledge and experience with hundreds of professionals in the U.S. and abroad.  Karol works part-time as a reflective consultant for clinicians and programs across the State of Michigan and nationally. She has co-developed and facilitated what is known as the “IMH 3-Day,” a foundational training course that is required for infant mental health clinicians in Michigan. “IMH 3-Day” is often one of the first trainings new professionals attend. During a career that spanned three decades, Karol’s leadership and expertise helped lay the foundation for infant mental health innovations in Michigan. Her contribution to the field has also laid the foundation for infant and early childhood mental health work throughout the country. Karol is the co-editor of the new case studies book, Honoring Voices within Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Relationship-based Stories from the Field (ZERO TO THREE, 2024). She is a board member for the Metro Detroit Association for Infant Mental Health, and a former board member with the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health. She has authored numerous articles for the field, including in the Infant Mental Health Journal and The Reflective Supervision Journal. 

Carla Barron, PhD, LMSW, IMH-E®, has been working within the infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) field for 27 years. For over 15 years she worked as an infant mental health specialist providing home- and community-based intervention to infants, toddlers, and their caregivers in the areas of child welfare, early childhood education, and mental health. Currently, she is an Assistant Research Professor at the Merrill-Palmer Skillman Institute at Wayne State University. She is the Clinical Coordinator for the Infant Mental Health Dual-Title (IMHD) Program which involves teaching an infant mental health graduate seminar and being a liaison between the infant mental health students and their home departments/schools. Dr. Barron has established and maintains strong community partnerships with IECMH agencies, programs, and supervisors who provide practicum placements within the community and supervise and train IMHD students in their clinical and scholarly work. She also develops and implements professional trainings on a variety of topics related to professional wellness, early infant development, home visiting, and diversity-informed reflective supervision/consultation (RS/C).  Dr. Barron has published on the topic of RS/C and infant and early childhood practice. Most recently, she is co-editor of a book honoring the voices and experiences of diverse IECMH professionals published by ZERO TO THREE. She facilitates RS/C and provides training for IECMH professionals across Michigan and nationally.  She engages in community-based research focused on the professional’s experience of RS/C and reflective practices within training and education.