Depression is a complex disease state with alterations in brain circuits, impacting the immune system and elevating inflammatory factors resulting in cellular damage to brain cells and alteration in neuronal DNA expression. Serotonin has been implicated in both the...
Wednesday September 13 • 8:30 – 11:45 AM
015 | “KISS” – Keeping Intimacy Sweet and Simple: Coaching Couples to Marital Bliss
Great marriages happen intentionally, not automatically. Drift happens in Christian couples, but coaches and ministry leaders can help couples gain the marital bliss for which they are searching. Kissing is the bridge leaving the land of loneliness and crossing into...
014 | Christ-centered Internal Family Systems Therapy: How to Develop Healthy Boundaries for Your Soul
Painful burdens can hold clients back from building the lives they want to live. This experiential workshop teaches licensed mental health professionals how to apply key principles for helping willing Christian clients (henceforth clients) befriend parts of their soul...
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...
012 | Pornography, Compulsivity, and Bondage: Helping Individuals and Couples Get Set Free from the Sexual Strongholds
Pornography and sexual compulsivity can be devastating to individuals, couples, and families. In fact, with the dramatic increase in pornography usage during the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation is facing a virtual “porndemic.” Discovering and disclosing sexual...
011 | Shame Interrupted: God’s Beautiful Words to the Disgraced
Shame is finally receiving the attention it deserves. Those who have been shamed are escaping wordless silence and giving voice to their experience. The next challenge is for their spoken fragments to be drawn together and reframed by God’s words. As an expression of...
010 | Research on Faith-based Therapies: What you Need to Know to Have an Evidence-based Practice or Ministry
The focus of this workshop is on briefly reviewing the research on religion and mental health, discussing why evidence-based treatments in faith-based counseling are important, illustrating evidence-based faith-based therapies now being used, describing how to design,...
009 | Creating Stability in the Chaos: D.B.T. for Borderline Personality Disorder and Complex Trauma
Emotional and behavioral instability and chaos are hallmarks of borderline personality disorder. These difficulties may also be seen in those who struggle with complex trauma, especially early attachment trauma. As a result, deep characterological and trauma work is...
008 | Grace for the Children: Post COVID-19 Mental Health Disorders and Interventions
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that one in five children had a mental disorder; however, only about 20% of those children received care from a mental healthcare provider. Home from school and separated...
007 | Zippers and Wallets: Helping Couples Navigate the Power Issues in Marriage
When is the issue, not the issue? When the issue is sex or money. Both hallmark causes of marriage conflict are seen frequently by licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders, and both are commonly misunderstood as being too specialized (or too awkward)...