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Adolescent Gambling and Gaming Series – Online, Self-paced Training

2025-2026 Academic Year

Course Description: This course will take behavioral health clinicians through seven modules providing psychoeducation, evidence-based treatment modalities, screening tools, and evidence-based prevention tools and strategies. The modules will also explore how the brain is impacted by both substance misuse and behavioral addictions and provide an understanding of how the power of advanced technology, marketing, advertising, and persuasive design coupled with commercial interests have made an impact on our lives in both positive and negative ways. Behavioral health clinicians will learn to discuss the online world by incorporating language in media literacy and the importance of a healthy media diet, and be left with a feeling of hope found in research, evidence-based practices, and community partnerships.
Modality: This is an online self-paced training located at https://bhs.unc.edu(opens in a new tab)

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.

Learn more about this opportunity at their website.

LCCNC 2026 Conference Poster Proposal Submissions

Deadline to submit poster proposals: June 15, 2026

Call for Proposals

The Licensed Clinical Counselors of North Carolina (LCCNC) is excited to announce our 2026 Annual Conference:

Resilient Together: Building Community, Healing Survivors, Advancing Justice
October 10–11, 2026
Charlotte, NC

This two-day conference will focus on violence, trauma, healing, advocacy, and justice in counseling practice, highlighting the experiences of survivors, particularly women, minority, Indigenous, and other marginalized communities.

We invite counselors, researchers, educators, advocates, community partners, and survivor-leaders to submit proposals for interactive workshops, panel discussions, research presentations, advocacy sessions, and creative/expressive approaches. Sessions that integrate advocacy, culturally grounded practice, or survivor voices are especially encouraged.

Submit your proposal here: SUBMIT

 

Call for Student Posters

Master’s and doctoral counseling students are encouraged to submit research or practice-based posters related to trauma, violence prevention, survivor-centered care, community healing, or social justice in counseling. The poster session will provide an opportunity for students to share their work and connect with professionals in the field.

Submit your poster proposal here: SUBMIT

 

Important Dates:

Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2026

Notifications of Acceptance: July 20, 2026

Presenter Registration Deadline: August 15, 2026

 

Help us create a meaningful, healing, and justice-centered conference. Share your expertise, your research, and your voice!

Annual 2026 CMHC Virtual Conference - Call for Proposals

Proposal Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2026, 11:59pm ET

Annual 2026 CMHC Virtual Conference – Call for Proposals
The Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania-Lock Haven, Department of Counseling & Educational Leadership, will host their 5th Annual Virtual Conference, October 16th, 2026, with a variety of sessions running hourly, 9:00am ET – 4:00PM ET. (An information session will be held from 8:30am ET-9:00am ET). Information is below, and flyer with proposal and conference information is attached as well. 
The Conference aims to feature an assortment of topics of interest to counseling and counselor education students, clinical professionals and supervisors, counselor educators, school counselors, and other health care professionals.
We are seeking quality proposals, which highlight the following conference theme: Context Matters: Counseling in Changing Times. 
To meet the needs of state licensure requirements, some speakers may be invited to speak on topics focused on ethics, child abuse, and suicide prevention and intervention.
 As we are committed to mentoring students with their scholarly pursuits, we welcome proposals from students as lead or co-presenters. Students will need to have a licensed professional on any 50-minute educational presentation proposal submitted for CEs to be offered. Additionally, students are encouraged to submit to the student track for a solo presentation experience (no CE’s are provided here and the time of the sessions may be shorter than 50-minutes depending on level of interest).
Plan to attend this learning opportunity from experts across disciplines and earn Continuing Education hour(s).
Registration information to come soon!
Submissions and deadlines:
Proposal submissions may be submitted here: https://lockhaven.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ewCD2qv5qTSZ7g2
Please be prepared to enter your own and your co-presenter(s)’ information when completing a proposal submission.  You will also need the following: (a) Brief Biographies of Presenters (500 character maximum); (b) Presentation Title; (c) Presentation Description (for program guide; 800 characters maximum); (d)  3 – 4 learning objectives and (e) 4+ references.
• You may be on a total of 2 proposals (exceptions can be made if mentoring students)
• Up to 3 presenters can be on any one proposal for education sessions
• All presentations will be accepted as a 50-minute educational Zoom session; student track time may be shorter depending on interest
• Proposal Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2026, 11:59pm ET  
• Proposal reviews will begin on June 6th, 2026, and be completed by July 21st, 2026
• The lead presenter will be notified of acceptance and presentation date and time no later than August 10th, 2026.
• Those accepted to present must register for the conference. Conference fees will be waved for presenters. There will be a small fee if presenters want CEs. You may want to wait to register for the conference until you learn of your acceptance.
We are also seeking volunteers on a first come, first serve basis! Please indicate on the proposal submission form if you or your co-presenter(s) are interested in serving as a volunteer. Conference fees will be waived for volunteers and volunteers will receive free CEs.
For questions about the conference, feel free to contact Dr. Kellie Pytel at  or Dr. Lis Tomlin at 

Mitigating Digital Risk and Promoting Well-Being for Youth

May 20, 2026

The Webster Institute for Clinical Scholarship (WICS), in collaboration with the Department of Professional Counseling, is thrilled to announce a 5-month Lunch & Learn Professional Development Series. The theme for this year’s professional development series is It Takes a Village: Culturally Responsive Approaches to Youth Trauma and Suicide Prevention. This Professional Development Series will culminate in the fifth annual WICS Summer Symposium on Saturday, June 13, 2026.

When: Every third Wednesday, January–May 2026
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CST
Where: Virtual (Zoom)
Cost: NONE. This series is offered FREE.
Free CEs available for Counselors, Social Workers, and other mental health professionals

Session V: Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Topic: Mitigating Digital Risk and Promoting Well-being for Youth
Presenter: Dr. Chelsey Wilks

Register now and join the conversation that matters!
Webster Institute for Clinical Scholarship Lunch and Learn Series
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to join the session. Participants needing CEs will receive a link to complete an evaluation and apply for CEs after each session.

North Carolina Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development Fire Chat

May 21, 2026

The NC AMCD Executive Team warmly invites you to attend our fire chat to discuss the Senate Bill: 227 on Thursday, May 21st, 2026, at 6:30 PM EST.
This session will explore the hidden impact of new education policies on students, educators, and communities.
The event will be held virtually.
Use the QR code in the image to join the zoom room.

37th Annual Boston International Trauma Conference

May 27–30, 2026

Something is shifting in the trauma field.

For years, the work of healing has largely lived in a familiar place: the therapist’s office, the individual nervous system, the private interior of one person’s experience. That work is vital. It will always matter.

But more and more, trauma practitioners are naming something that can no longer be ignored: we cannot fully heal people while the systems that harm them remain unchanged. And we cannot sustain the work of healing if we ourselves have no framework for living and working through collective crisis.

This year, the 37th Annual Boston International Trauma Conference meets that conversation head-on. Three sessions in particular ask the question that is on many of our minds: what does it mean to do healing work in a world that is actively causing harm?

Prentis Hemphill and Linda Thai deliver a session on what happens to our bodies – and our movements – when we engage with social and political realities. Not just the burnout and compassion fatigue we talk about in supervision, but the deeper question of how trauma shapes the way individuals and entire communities respond to threat, power, and change. Their framework doesn’t ask us to choose between personal healing and political engagement. It asks what it looks like when the two inform each other.

The Outer Work Project – featuring Nkem Ndefo, Staci K. Haines, Kai Cheng Thom, and Licia Sky – goes further still. Their session is a direct challenge to the boundaries of traditional therapeutic practice. They argue that healing and social transformation are not parallel tracks but deeply intertwined ones, and that trauma healers are uniquely positioned to support change not only in the people they serve, but in the systems those people must navigate. This is about what therapy looks like when it takes its social context seriously.

Mariah Rooney, joined by poet Junauda Petrus, bring the weekend to a close with perhaps the most direct statement of all. In a session on the somatics of liberation, they hold space for what many practitioners are quietly carrying: grief, rage, fear, and the bone-deep question of how to keep showing up when the scale of harm feels overwhelming. Their answer isn’t resignation or revolution for its own sake – it’s a love-centered, body-grounded practice of resistance and imagination. The kind that sustains.

These sessions will offer a way of thinking about the body, healing, and social change that is rooted in decades of clinical and community practice – and that takes the present moment seriously.

Register today to experience these sessions and many others – our conference offers four days of keynotes, workshops and community building.

The 37th Annual Boston International Trauma Conference runs May 27–30 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel & online. Up to 30 CE credits are available.

Understanding the Basics of Christian Religious Trauma

June 5, 2026

Understanding the Basics of Christian Religious Trauma

Paula Swindle, PhD, LCMHCS
Friday, June 5
12:00 PM – 01:00 PM Eastern
Virtual Webinar
Free for Members, $20 for Guests
Click Here to Register

This one-hour live virtual webinar on the topic of “Understanding the Basics of Christian Religious Trauma” will provide information to counselors on working with clients who have experienced harm from religious systems including the three main categories of religious trauma and common experiences of their clients. Counselors are trained to assess for multiple aspects of their clients’ identity including whether or not the client is coming from a religious or spiritual worldview. However, when a client presents with a harmful experience related to religion, counselors often do not receive training on how to best help these clients. This presentation will help begin to fill in that knowledge gap.

The workshop is designed to help participants:

  1. Participants will be able to name the 3 general categories of Religious Trauma.
  2. Participants will understand common experiences of clients with history of Religious Trauma.
  3. Participants will engage in self-examination around the ethics and personal bias of counseling clients who present with experiences of Religious Trauma.

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-summersymposium2026.eventbrite.com/> for the first and only conference that focuses both on practitioners/educators (to include students) and the population of veterans/active service members/first responders, all of whom will participate in a collaborative learning environment.

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-summersymposium2025.eventbrite.com/>):

  • $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

    • understand the framework for a Chicana/o/x Affirmative approach,

    • understand how a focus on identity, family, and spirituality are key in a Chicanx Affirmative approach,

    • learn to be culturally responsive to Chicana/x/o and Latine culture in clinical interactions,

    • gain an understanding of varying notions of mental well-being from a Chicana/o/x perspective, and

    • apply these concepts with case scenarios in each training session.

Features of the training series are:

    • Constructing Chicana/o/x wellness & well-being,

    • the roles of identity, family, and spirituality for Chicana/o/x mental health,

    • facilitating a reconnection to current and ancestral cultural strengths in clinical practice,

    • aspects of Chicana/o/x culture that complements the practice of counseling & therapy,

    • values & assumptions of the mental health field that are not congruent with Chicana/o/x and Latine wellness culture,

    • the impacts of marginalization and discrimination on Chicana/o/x well-being on an individual and community level, and

    • the inclusion of historical trauma in the treatment of Chicana/o/x and Latine populations.

After completing the training participants will receive:

    • Certificate of Training Completion (contingent of filling out all session evaluation forms)

    • On-going support and consultation for 6 months after training

    • Annual group check in sessions and case scenarios

    • 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>