Grace Together is a couples’ curriculum for counseling with a psychologist, other licensed mental health professional, or a small group or large learning event with a ministry leader. This workshop is based on the Grace and Hope Model that the presenters have...
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049 | A Good Blend: Effective Stepfamily Therapy for Couples and Children
Complex blended families need stepfamily-informed licensed mental health clinicians and ministry leaders who can insightfully help couples and children. This workshop will explore the key relational challenges leading to stepcouple and blended family distress and how...
048 | Incorporating Christian Faith into EMDR Therapy*
This advanced workshop aims to enhance the collaboration between an EMDR-trained counselor and a client seeking trauma work who has an experience of God incorporated into EMDR therapy. The workshop’s primary focus is assessing and accessing the client’s AIP regarding...
047 | Healthy People, Healthy Relationships: How Conflict in Relationships Can be the Catalyst for Deeper Healing
Couples facing regular conflict and routine marital tension often fail to realize there tends to be a conflict pattern that comes up repeatedly in their relationships. Interestingly enough, that conflict pattern is often rooted in both their emotional health in the...
046 | The New SYMBIS Project: Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
Ministry leaders and coaches want the very best for the couples in their care and a system that makes it personal, profound, and easy. Say hello to the SYMBIS Assessment. Helping couples—whether engaged or married for decades—just got easier and more effective. Learn...
045 | Human Trafficking and the Sex Industry: How to Identify and Help Those Who are Trapped
Trafficking of people, or human trafficking, is an illegal activity that touches all nations and has long-lasting physical, social, and psychological consequences for survivors and all those involved. Traffickers exploit both genders, all ethnicities, the aged and...
044 | The Epidemic Behind the Pandemic: Assessment and Treatment of Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Vicarious Trauma
It is well-documented that the COVID-19 pandemic left a huge legacy of compassion fatigue in the medical community, resulting in consequences like physical and mental health challenges and large numbers of healthcare workers leaving their jobs or even abandoning the...
043 | The Role of Emotional and Relational Intelligence (E.R.I.) in Treating Anxiety, Depression, and Social Isolation
Christ said, “… I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10, NKJV). Unfortunately, the sad reality is that most people, including Christians, are not living or enjoying the “abundant” life that our Lord designed us to...
042 | Deconstructing Negative Self Talk: Practical Tools to Escape a Toxic Mindset
Though it is normal to get in a negative space, marked by negative thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, people desire to reside in a positive space with hopeful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The presenters will use Switch Theory, a new modality based on Cognitive...
041 | When the Pressure is Too Much: Kids, Performance, and Perfectionism in Sports, Academics, and Everyday Life
It Is no secret that today’s youth struggle managing stress and anxiety related to performance and perfectionism. As a result, kids are getting lost and desperately seeking help, hope, and encouragement. The presenters are very familiar with the stress and immense...