Hi Emily, I can't help you with the legal issues but have a couple of suggestions that might be helpful. You seem to be caught up in a dispute between those who promote behaviorism and those who believe in a brain based, bottoms up, relational/ developmental model like you and me. I am in California and the behaviorists attempted to put themselves on the level of mental health professionals by requiring licensing. The bill did not pass. But they remain a powerful lobby. Would you consider reframing your program as a "Resilience Promoting" one? You mention a "bottoms up" approach. Go to Bruce Perry's Child Trauma Academy website and see that he is now offering programs in schools that use this approach. (Google his 60 Minutes interview with Oprah.) Go to the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard for extraordinary resources. See the work being done on social/emotional learning through CASEL and PassageWorks. Edutopia is another helpful website. These would be your allies in any discussion and the body based therapies are growing in acceptance and need developing. You might want to Google Birth Psychology (APPPAH) for more allies. I worked in a Waldorf School for 20 years and they certainly understand the development of the body and sensory-motor system particularly in the first seven years of life as the foundation of all the comes after. The second seven years is about the social emotional and the third is the development of the cognitive and it is all based on loving relationships in the community. I like Fred Rogers quote "Love is at the root of everything, all learning, all relationships--Love and the lack of it." Trauma occurs due to impaired relationships and we are beginning to understand how to promote healing and healthy relationships. Good luck!