April Welch, Certified Professional Organizer is the proud owner of Simply Organized. She works hard to make sure her clients always have the most up to date industry information by continuing her education. Listed below are the many classes she has taken, certificates she has earned along with the accredidations she holds.

Rest assure that April's committment to an improved quality of life she helps her clients find is fed by her passion for education & her hands-on experience.

Experience

Stay-At-Home Mom, 10 years
Executive Administrative Assistant, 10 years
Organizational Consultant - unpaid, 9 years
Professional Organizer - paid, 5 years
New Organizer Mentor, 1 year

Accredidations

Certified Professional Organizer, BCPO (NAPO)

CD Specialist, NSGCD

Certificate of Study in Chronic Disorganization, NSGCD
Certificate of Study in CD Client Administration, NSGCD
Certificate of Study in Basic Hoarding Issues with the CD Client, NSGCD
Certificate of Study in Basic ADD Issues with the CD Client, NSGCD
Certificate of Study in Basic Mental Health Conditions, NSGCD

Education

Conferences:

NSGCD Fall Forum, 2006
- Organizing for your Brainstyle
- Decision Styles
- Frame Styles: Integrating Multiple Intelligences & Learning Styles

NAPO Bay Area Regional Conference, 2006
- Adding Home Staging to your Organizing Business
- Space Planning 101
- The Power of the Compassionate Heart

NSGCD Annual Conference, 2007
- Case Studies
- Collaborations in Estate Organizing
- Collaborations with Goverment Agencies
- The Collaborative Solutions Approach
- An introduction to Collaborative Therapy
- OK, Who put the ketchup in the linen closet again?
- Creating Synergy: Collaborating with Government Agencies
- Putting Collaboration into Practice

NSGCD: The Collaborative Therapy for Clutter Management Workshop, 2007
- An Introduction to Collaborative Therapy
- Advanced Applications in Collaborative Therapy

NAPO National Conference, 2007
- Understanding Grief & Loss in the Organizing Process
- The Next Big Thing
- Alphabet Soup for Professional Organizers
- The New Organizing Paradigm: Working with a Shifting Network of Partners
- Virtually There: Serving Clients Throughout the World Without Leaving your Office

NAPO Bay Area Regional Conference, 2007
- Balance Stamina
- Tech Savvy Organizing
- Face Reading
- Working with the Child Client: Bringing Balance to Families (Presenter)

NSGCD Fall Forum, 2007
- Conquering Chronic Disorganization (CD): Then & Now
- Perfectionists & Pleasers
- Techniques for Overcoming Procrastination
- Strategies for Improving Decision Making & Other Issues Affecting Adults with ADD
- Buried in Treasures: the psychology of compulsive hoarding
- Motivational Interviewing Workshop
- Facilitating Freedom for our clients

NSGCD Teleclasses:

ADD & addiction
ADD, chronic disorganization & the organizing process
Assisting clients living & working with learning disabilities in adulthood
Assisting the traumatic brain injured client
Basic ADD
Basic CD
Basic safety with CD clients
Boundaries & ethics
Collaborative Therapy for CD clients & organizers advanced: Part II
Compulsive hoarding & acquiring: approach with caution. A team approach is the way to go
Conscious Consuming: Empowering ourselves & modeling for others
Decision Making skills for the indecisive ADD, LD & CD clients
Depression in the elderly client
Environmental safety - staying healthy, feeling good on the job site
Epilepsy & Disorganization
Introduction to Compulsive Hoarding
Introduction to learning styles & differences
Letting go: the process & meaning of dispossession in the lives of consumers
Locating mental health resources within your community
Nonverbal Communication
Normalizing ADD
Organizing for your personality type
Resources for investigating physical & mental health condition affecting your chronically disorganized clients
Strategies for working with ADD clients by phone
Students in transition
Understanding the mental health conditions affecting the CD client
Understanding the physical & mental challenges of elderly CD clients
Working with auditory learners
Working with clients in transition
Working with physically challenged CD clients
Working with visual learners
Your client's personal alphabet