Counseling & Student Affairs Past Workshops
Past Workshops
*Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents: Best Practices and Considerations
September 8, 2025
- Understand relevant assessment procedures and considerations, that include human development theory
- Describe evidence-based treatment and intervention models related to children and adolescents
- Apply and understanding of treatment plans that include family therapy as an important element of treatment
Instructor: Lance Folske, M.A
The Basics of Sandtray
September 8, 2025
- Describe the theoretical foundations and clinical applications of sandtray therapy
- Identify essential materials and setup procedures for conducting sandtray therapy sessions
- Observe and interpret key symbolic elements in a sandtray process and discuss their relevance to client treatment
Instructor: Bethany Johnson, LPCC-S
*Polyvagal Theory and Working with Children and Adolescents
September 15, 2025
- Understand the Polyvagal Theory, including associations with DSM diagnoses
- Be able to apply the theory when working with adolescents and parents
- Be able to apply the theory and understanding of other brain structures throughout the diagnostic assessment and intervention process
Instructor: Bethany Johnson, LPCC-S
For Parents, Teachers, and Caregivers: Strategies to Keep Gifted Children and Adolescents Happy, Productive, and Purposeful!
February 10, 2025
- Explore the reasons why failure is a necessary facet of growth and the development of grit and resilience
- Discuss insights on how to help children develop grit and resilience
- Discuss specific ways teachers, counselors and parents can help children and adolescents reframe failure to opportunity and resilience
Instructor: Emily Payne, M.A.E.
Partner Sexual Betrayal: Consequences and Impact on the Family
March 24, 2025
- Gain an understanding of sexual betrayal trauma within couples dyad.
- Identify how betrayal trauma can also impact the individual’s functioning as a family member and parent.
- Gain knowledge of how relationship betrayal can impact and manifest within children living in the home .
Instructor: Jackie F. Newman, CPTT, LPCC-S
Integrative Mental Health: Self-Care and Awareness for College Students
April 1, 2025
- Understand how biological factors impact mental health.
- Gain knowledge about how “brain health” contributes to mood and other mental health disorder diagnoses.
Instructor: Cathy Gamm, MA, LPCC-S, CBHC, CIMHP
Eating Disorders: Family Impact and Generational Patterns*
April 14, 2025
Explain ways of recognizing when a child or teen is struggling with eating disorder-related
symptoms.
Explain how an individual’s eating disorder impacts family functioning.
Identify the etiology of how and why eating disorders manifest as generational patterns
and trends.
- Explain ways of recognizing when a child or teen is struggling with eating disorder-related symptoms.
- Explain how an individual’s eating disorder impacts family functioning.
- Identify the etiology of how and why eating disorders manifest as generational patterns and trends.
Instructor: Susan E. Belangee, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, ACS, DNASAP, NASAP Executive Director
Is Licensure Enough?
April 28, 2025
- Evaluate ethical standards of professional responsibility for maintaining boundaries of competence (ACA, 2014, C.2.a.) and following procedures (e.g., informed consent) for incorporating new specialty areas of practice (ACA, 2014, C.2.b.).
- Explore the impact and potential risks related to intersecting professional identities from multiple fields of practice using a counseling ethical decision-making model (Remley & Herlihy, 2024).
- Discuss implications and pressures related to professional counseling trends that influence decisions to add nonconventional modalities (e.g., reiki, yoga) and additional certifications (e.g., EMDR, SE) beyond licensure.
Instructor: Dr. Rhemma Payne, LMHC (IN), NCC, ACS, BC-TMH
Clinical Treatment of Children and Adolescents: Best Practices and Considerations
September 9, 2024
- Understand relevant assessment procedures and considerations, that include human development theory
- Describe evidence-based treatment and intervention models related to children and adolescents
- Apply an understanding of treatment plans that include family therapy as an important element of treatment
Instructor: Lance Folske, M.S.
The Triune Brain and Relationships
September 16, 2024
- Understanding the Triune Brain Model, and other anatomical structures of the brain associated with DSM diagnoses.
- Applying the triune brain model when working with adolescents and parents
- Applying the triune brain model, and understanding of other brain structures throughout the diagnostic assessment and intervention process
Instructor: Emilee Payne, M.A.E.
Making Assessment Holistic: Early Recollections with Teens
October 14, 2024
- Describing how and why Adlerian theory is holistic in nature; and its historical application of counseling young people
- Appropriately demonstrating the interpretation of early recollections when working with adolescents and from an Adlerian perspective.
- Verbalizing how early recollections from an Adlerian-based perspective give clinicians, adolescent clients, and parents insight into the purpose behind the adolescents’ lifestyle
Integrative Mental Health: How College Students Can Be Well
October 24, 2024
- Understanding how biological factors that impact mental health
- Gaining knowledge about how “brain health” contributes to mood and other mental health disorder diagnoses
- Learning specific self-help strategies that support brain and body health
Instructor: Cathy Gamm, MA, LPCC-S, CBHC, CIMHP
Domestic Trafficking: What Mental Health Professionals Need to Know
November 4, 2024
- Learning what acts constitute sex trafficking in America and what trafficking looks like from the eyes of a survivor and survivor ally
- Increasing knowledge of what working with a survivor can look like through assessments and interactions
- Discussing several ideas for holistic recovery plans
Instructor: Dr. Azurdee M. Garland, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Phoenix Rising
How to Talk to Children About Child Sexual Abuse
November 18, 2024
- Understanding the legal definitions of "sexual abuse"
- Becoming knowledgeable about the current statistics related to sexual abuse
- Understanding developmentally appropriate ways of introducing and talking to children about sexual abuse
Instructor: Ericka McComas-Church, LCSW
Counseling Families: HIPAA and Confidentiality Considerations
January 29, 2024
- Understanding the dynamics of family functions and the role of the therapist in advocating for the client in a way that is compliant with the laws.
- Applying an understanding of HIPAA compliance in mental health and the accompanying privacy act.
- Applying an understanding of the specific nature of mental health and HIPAA compliance, not just in reference to keeping and disseminating records.
Instructor: Jamie E. Cole, LCSW
Building an Effective Child Welfare System: Critical Touch Points When Working with Children and Families
February 5, 2024
- Understanding the critical touch points in child welfare when working with children and families.
- Describing current barriers and relevant opportunities for engagement as professionals working with children and families.
- Applying an understanding of strategies to engage child welfare involved service providers.
- Applying an understanding of strategies to engage child welfare involved systems (e.g., legal, educational, medical, etc.)
Instructor: Austin Griffiths, Ph.D., MSW, CSW
Counseling and Being a Resource for LGB Teens
February 12, 2024
- Explaining the impact of contexts impacting LGB youth.
- Identifying the risks/challenges to LGB youth.
- Demonstrating how to develop interventions (micro/mezzo/macro) to assist LGB youth.
Instructor: Gayle Mallinger, Ph.D., MSW
Practice and Opportunities: Working with Families and Youth in Juvenile Court
March 11, 2024
- Identifying the goals and philosophy of juvenile courts of rehabilitation in contrast to prosecution in “adult” courts.
- Describing approaches to risk and needs screening and forensic mental health evaluation of youth in juvenile courts.
- Describing the role of clinicians working with youth and families to implement recommendations from evaluations.
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Parenting of and Raising a Child with a Disability
March 25, 2024
- Applying an understanding of the parent situation in counseling/therapy with parents.
- Recommending to parents’ strategies for raising their child with disabilities.
- Articulating and describing what parent coping is for parents of children with significant disabilities.
Instructor: Tim Hartshorne, PhD
Sex Addiction and Trauma Among Adolescents and Teens
April 1, 2024
- Gaining an understanding of sexual addiction and understand how symptomatology manifests in adolescents and teens.
- Discussing how sexual addiction is treated in adolescents and teens.
- Discussing how to support the individual and how it effects the family system.
Instructor: Jackie F. Newman, CPTT, LPCC-S
Supervising LPCAs Who Work with Children and Teens: Critical Touch Points
April 22, 2024
- Describing the ethical codes specific to working with kids and teens (ACA, AMHCA, ASCA)
- Understanding reporting requirements federal and state (parental rights, mandated reporting, etc.)
- Giving details of child and adolescent development and the importance of staying current on trends with children and teens
- Discussing the different types of clinical interventions utilized with children and teens
Instructor: Jeff Hughes, EdS, LPC, Certified Professional Counseling Supervisor
Teens, Vaping, and Substance Use
May 9, 2023
- Understanding why teens vape,
- Identifying the dangers of vaping and how it serves as a gateway process to other drugs, and
- Identifying evidence-informed prevention and intervention strategies.
Instructors: Whitney Harper, Ph.D., LCSW
The Gift of Failure: Helping Gifted Children and Adolescents Succeed
September 11, 2023
- Explore the reasons why failure is a necessary facet of growth and the development of grit and resilience.
- Discuss insights on how to help children develop grit and resilience.
- Hear personal accounts of how parents, children and teachers have recognized the benefits of learning from failure.
Instructor: Dr. Martha Day
The Triune Brain and Family Dyads
September 18, 2023
- Understand the Triune Brain Model
- Be able to apply the triune brain model to working with families and familial dyads.
- Be able to apply the model to their own familial relationships.
Instructor: Jill Duba Sauerheber, PhD
LPCC-S, NCC, EMDR Cert., BRAINSPOTTING Cert., Somatic Experimental Practitioner, Certified
Brain Health Professional
Early Recollection of Adolescents
October 16, 2023
- Describing the use of early recollections historically and their relevance to different theories.
- Appropriately demonstrating the interpretation of early recollections when working with adolescents and from an Adlerian perspective.
- Verbalizing how early recollections from an Adlerian-based perspective give clinicians, adolescent clients, and parents insight into the purpose behind the adolescents’ lifestyle.
Instructor: Michele Frey, PhD, LPC, ACS, CPCS, DNASAP
Domestic Trafficking: Facts and Stories of Survival
November 6, 2023
- Individuals will learn what acts constitute sex trafficking in America and what trafficking looks like from the eyes of a survivor and survivor ally.
- Participants will increase their knowledge of what working with a survivor can look like through assessments and interactions.
- Additionally, several ideas for holistic recovery plans will be discussed.
Instructors: Azurdee Garland, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Phoenix Rising; Missy Cunningham, Co-Founder of Phoenix Rising; Jill Duba Sauerheber, Ph.D., LPCC-S, NCC, EMDR Cert., BSP Cert., SEP
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