Oftentimes, faith-based clients are hesitant to engage in standard behavioral therapy for fear their therapist will push them to say or do something which contradicts their beliefs, especially Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) and Inhibitory Learning Model (ILM)...
Counseling Skills, Techniques, and Empirically-supported Treatments
614 | Combining Faith and Evidence-based Interventions for Christian Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Sexual assault is a pervasive and traumatic experience that affects over half of the female population and at least one-third of the male population at some point in their lives (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022). Often, regardless of the period in...
514 | Navigating the Grief: Building Resilience in Caretakers through Culturally Sensitive Counseling Strategies
This presentation is for licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders helping caretakers navigate the ins and outs of managing either anticipatory or current grief due to the loss of loved ones while simultaneously facing the challenges of supporting and...
414 | Where’s Your Anchor?: The Interplay Between a Biblical Worldview and Clinical Excellence
Since the pandemic in 2020, society has changed dramatically, which is reflected in the psychological profession. More people need services, and there is more demand for licensed mental health professionals to be both hope and light in a darkening world. Mental health...
314 | EMDR Therapy: An Overview
Many licensed mental health professionals and medical professionals have heard about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and that it has strong research on its effectiveness with trauma and other mental health issues. In this workshop, the history of...
214 | Christ-centered Internal Family Systems Therapy: How to Develop Healthy Boundaries for Your Soul
Painful burdens can hold people back from building the lives they want to live. This workshop for licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders teaches how to apply key techniques for teaching Christian clients to befriend parts of the soul weighed down...
114 | Creative Experiential Techniques: How to Bypass Defenses and Engage Emotions in Therapy
Human beings are developed and shaped experientially by lived experiences. At times, cognitive-behavioral therapy and other therapies cannot fully engage the emotions that were activated at the time the wound was experienced. Process-experiential counseling can bring...