Our clients long for home to be a safe haven where they feel known, loved, and connected. Yet, marriage and family relationships are complicated and messy, often making living at home a struggle and strain on an individual’s mental health. The stresses from difficult...
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034 | Coaching for Emotional Intelligence and Healthy Spirituality
Healthy emotional self-awareness and self-management influence everything: healthy spiritual formation, relationships, learning, decision-making, physical and mental health, happiness, stress resilience, creativity, leadership, likability, and general success in life....
035 | Promoting Forgiveness in People Experiencing Trauma
When people experience serious interpersonal harm, most are resilient post-trauma; some develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); and some experience post-traumatic growth (PTG). In many cases, injustices must be dealt with, but many also want to forgive their...
036 | Mental Health Healing After the Trauma of Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can overwhelm a person throughout the lifespan and produce not only continuous and immeasurable emotional pain and suffering, but also result in serious mental and physical health problems. Approximately one-half of adults in the...
037 | Teen Loneliness, Loss, and Suicide: Healing a Lost Generation
Our culture has progressively changed over the past several decades, and though it has affected the broader population, teenagers have been affected the most. Loneliness is the most significant indicator of this impact, with teenagers and young adults being two times...
039 | The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth: Full Disclosure for Couples Navigating Relational Betrayal
Trust is an integral part of growing close to a spouse. Trust will be broken when there are secrets or lies about behaviors. In rebuilding trust, creating a new foundation of truth-telling is essential. Full disclosure is a process to help couples heal from the pain...
040 | Holy Passion: Sex Therapy Trends and Insights from Over 50 Years of Clinical Practice
The presenters will integrate their 50 years of clinical expertise with relevant research as the basis for accurate assessment of sexual issues in couples. In this workshop, psychologists, other licensed mental health professionals, medical professionals, and ministry...
001 | Mental Health, Faith, and Ethics: Current Challenges and Issues
In recent years, Christian mental health and medical professionals, as well as students in the field, have faced continued challenges and complex situations requiring careful consideration and balance of ethical issues, faith, and law. This workshop reviews the 2023...
003 | When Loving Him is Hurting You: Hope and Help for Women Caught in the Cycle of Narcissism and Emotional Abuse
We live in a “me-centered” culture, with many selfishly asserting their “rights” and powering over others in the process. This epidemic of selfishness, entitlement, and emotional immaturity fuels narcissism and marital sexual abuse, traumatizing many and eroding the...
004 | The Faith Factor: Spiritual Interventions in Therapy
Spirituality has become a recognized area of importance in the mental health field, even raising the importance of a multicultural competency requirement. However, the reasons for addressing it and how to engage Christian clients with biblical spirituality are...