Adolescent Gambling and Gaming Series – Online, Self-paced Training
2025-2026 Academic Year
Modality: This is an online self-paced training located at https://bhs.unc.edu(opens in a new tab)
Time: 8 hours total
Target Audience: This intermediate level training is behavioral health clinicians seeking ways to incorporate psychoeducation, screening, and treatment modalities into their work in problematic behaviors in gambling, gaming, and digital media.
Multicultural Play Therapy Center Conference - Charlotte
June 19 - 26, 2026
Multicultural Play Therapy Center Conference
University of North Carolina Charlotte
June 19 – 26, 2026
This year’s conference will have both 3-hour Live Webinar sessions (June 19-20) and 6-hour sessions on 5 days in person (June 22-26). You will receive an email invitation with directions for access after the close of registration on June 16, 2026.
When is the conference?
The conference will be from Friday, June 19 – Friday, June 26, 2026.
June 19-20: We will offer 3-hour live webinars on Zoom (3 Non-Contact CEs/webinar). All webinars are on EST.
June 22-26: We will offer in-person sessions at UNCC from 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (EST) (6 Contact CEs/day).
Who should attend:
Professional counselors, school counselors, play therapists, social workers, psychologists, and students. LCMHCs, school counselors, and those seeking RPT/S from APT earn up to 48 CEs for the conference (APT Approved Provider #07-191; NBCC Approved Provider #4208). Special rates for current students and May graduates. We will provide CEs for social workers in North Carolina. Please note that for NC LCMHCs whose licenses expire on June 30, 2026, all CEs earned at our conference can be used for your license renewal.
Approved Providers:
NBCC Approved Provider #4208 and APT Approved Provider #07-191. The 3-hour live webinars Zoom sessions meet the requirements for Non-Contact CEs by APT. The in-person sessions are approved as contact hours by APT.
Special consideration for the webinars:
UNC Charlotte encourages the following guidelines for CE credits for participating in Live Webinars/ Non-contact. All participants in live webinars must 1) actively participate in the Live Webinar through the chat feature and experiential activities; 2) have their camera on and each participant is onscreen for the Live Webinar; and 3) complete an evaluation and post-test questions within one week of the webinar. UNC Charlotte staff will monitor attendance. UNC Charlotte utilizes Zoom for their Live Webinars.
COST:
All Please register with your preferred email address- all email communication will be sent to your email address you used when registering. For students, you must register with an official university email address to ensure student rate. No refunds will be made after the registration deadline, June 17, 2025. Refunds will be subject to a $25 processing fee.
Live Webinars:
Professional: $65.00 per Live Webinars
UNC-Charlotte Student: $25.00 per Live Webinar. Registration Code: UNCCWEBINAR
Student (other university): $40.00 per Live Webinar. Registration Code: NonUNCCWEBINAR
All Webinars (6 Live Webinars): $375 for professionals
In-person Sessions:
Professional: $140.00 per workshop
UNC-Charlotte Student: $50 per workshop. Registration Code: UNCCIN-PERSON
Student (other university): $70 per workshop. Registration Code: NonUNCCIN-PERSON
All In-person Sessions (5 days): $675.00 for professionals
Conference All Access Pass
6 Live Webinars and 5 In-person Workshops: $1000.00 for professionals
To see complete descriptions for each presentation and to register, please go to:
https://sites.google.com/charlotte.edu/2026multiculturalplaytherapy/home
For more information on the conference, please contact Dr. Kristie Opiola, Director of the Multicultural Play Therapy Center and Professor at k. For information about registration, please contact Dr. Jordan Boyd at .
4th Annual Summer Symposium: Serving those who Served (4S)
June 26-27, 2026
4th Annual Summer Symposium: Serving those who Served (4S)
June 26-27, 2026
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: CLICK HERE
As you get ready to soak in the summer sun, why not also soak in some practical knowledge that will impact your life and the lives of those in the military and first-responder connected communities? This year’s 4S Conference will be held virtually on June 26-27, 2026 (0900-1700 EDT both days) and is being co-hosted by:
- The University of Central Florida (UCF)
- Jacksonville University (JU)
- The Military and Government Counseling Association (MGCA)
Registration is now open<https://4s-
The 4S Conference will host content experts who will present on topics such as:
- Family Resilience and Wellness
- Couples treatment for veterans/service members/first responders
- Student veteran/first responder wellness
- Adaptive rehabilitation
- Addiction and recovery
- Career counseling
- Military/first responder transitions
- Spirituality in the military/first responder community
- Moral injury
- Trauma/sexual trauma
- Alternative treatment approaches
- Pet/animal assisted therapy for PTSD
- Counseling military/first responder families
- Suicide prevention/treatment
- Counseling SOF, SWAT, and other specialty communities
The 4S Conference will also feature two panels, one consisting of current/former military and the other consisting of current/former first responders, each of which will speak to the mental health needs of their community.
We have made it our priority to provide this training at a VERY affordable rate (register here<https://4s-
- $25 for Students (for current graduate and undergraduate students) – be sure to use your institutional email address during registration so that we can verify your student status
- $90 for Practitioners/Researchers/
Educators – clinicians in the community, clinical supervisors, faculty, etc. - $10 for Veterans/Service Members/First Responders – current or former military/first responders (even if you are a student or practitioner, you qualify for this rate)
Up to 12 CEs (through NBCC) will be provided to attendees for no extra cost!
Note: Registrants will be sent additional information (i.e. the Conference Program and the link to the virtual conference platform) the week of June 22. This information will be sent to the email address that was indicated during registration. NOTE: If someone registers more than one person, those who attend based on that registration should alert the conference coordinators about that so that their attendance can be recorded.
Online Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy Training
June 27, 2026
Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy is an approach which, in its foundations, principles, and methods, actively centers and privileges Chicana/o/x culture in the therapeutic process. It affirms that both ancestrally and contemporarily the healing foundations of Chicana/o/x culture and lifeways.
REGISTRATION for TRAINING:
https://www.razapsych.org/registration/p/x-affirm-tx
OPTIONAL 15 CEs – Additional Purchase:
https://www.innovationbhs.com/registration/p/chicanaox-affirmative-therapy-training-series-clinical-responsiveness-chicanx-mental-health
Chicanx Affirmative Therapy works to center the culture & values of the Chicanx and Latine community and to privilege these in constructing the therapeutic approach with clients.
It is an approach that assumes centralizing culture and a positive perception of one’s own culture background can and should be facilitated in psychotherapy with Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x clients.
It assumes that connecting & re-connecting to current & ancestral values/practices can promote a culturally relevant sense of well-being.
Its methods explicitly focuses on and brings forth the cultural strengths of the Chicana/o/x community
Dates of Online Training Session – Session Times: 11:00am – 1:30pm Central
January 17 , February 7, March 7, April 11, May 16th, June 27
As a result of this training participants will
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- understand the framework for a Chicana/o/x Affirmative approach,
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- understand how a focus on identity, family, and spirituality are key in a Chicanx Affirmative approach,
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- learn to be culturally responsive to Chicana/x/o and Latine culture in clinical interactions,
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- gain an understanding of varying notions of mental well-being from a Chicana/o/x perspective, and
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- apply these concepts with case scenarios in each training session.
Features of the training series are:
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- Constructing Chicana/o/x wellness & well-being,
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- the roles of identity, family, and spirituality for Chicana/o/x mental health,
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- facilitating a reconnection to current and ancestral cultural strengths in clinical practice,
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- aspects of Chicana/o/x culture that complements the practice of counseling & therapy,
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- values & assumptions of the mental health field that are not congruent with Chicana/o/x and Latine wellness culture,
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- the impacts of marginalization and discrimination on Chicana/o/x well-being on an individual and community level, and
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- the inclusion of historical trauma in the treatment of Chicana/o/x and Latine populations.
After completing the training participants will receive:
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- Certificate of Training Completion (contingent of filling out all session evaluation forms)
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- On-going support and consultation for 6 months after training
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- Annual group check in sessions and case scenarios
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- Opportunity to be listed in our Clinical Directory https://www.razapsych.org/clinician-directory
15hr Training
Dr. Manuel X. Zamarripa, LPC-S
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-manuel-x-zamarripa-lpc-s-a6710b10/
www.razapsychology.org<http://www.razapsychology.org>