Christine Abrahams MA, NCC, LPC, is the owner of the InSpire Institute, LLC and has been a corporate and public school educator for 20 years. Her corporate education programs were featured on Fox News and CNN. She developed the InSPIREsm program to help children with emotional special needs meet and overcome their challenges through a combination of counseling and martial arts. The program was piloted for two years at an alternative school in Bucks County PA and was shown to be successful. She has also presented the program and its results at the 2003 and 2004 New Jersey Counselor’s Association’s annual conference and the 2004 American Counseling Association’s National Conference. Additionally, she published an article in the ACA 2004 “Vistas” journal about InSPIRE and the program was covered in an article in the May 2004 edition of “Counseling Today”. She is currently a school counselor at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, NJ where she runs groups for students in grades 9-12.