Facilitator: Chalice Nelson, LPC, NCC, CPCS

3hr CEs (NBCC)

Cost: $150

This presentation introduces how transformative the use expressive arts therapy can be in fostering emotional expression and enhancing mental wellness among Black women. Historically, Black women have navigated a complex interplay of traumas and societal expectations, which has contributed to them being in a space of survival that leads to cognitive dissonance and dissociation. This presentation will correlate how these historical and societal factors have impacted their mental health.

Learning Objectives

Define the historical traumas and societal norms/expectations Black women experience that contribute to cognitive dissonance and dissociation.

Identify the processes within Expressive Arts Therapy which can support Black women in building awareness and increase emotional expression.

Implement use of 2 expressive arts therapy techniques that can be utilized to enhance the mental wellness of Black women.

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Facilitator: Jessica Smith, LPC-MHSP, AS

1hr CE (NBCC)

Cost: Free

A welcoming space designed exclusively for mental health clinicians to connect, learn, and recharge. Share insights, reflect, and discover strategies to enhance your well-being and professional growth. Let’s prioritize wellness together!

Together, we can nurture ourselves while making a difference in others’ lives. Don’t miss out—see you there!

Learning Objectives:

1. Increase Awareness of Self-Care Strategies and Organizational Resources
Participants will identify at least three effective self-care practices and organizational support resources to maintain personal well-being and prevent burnout in their professional roles.

2. Enhance Understanding of the Impact of Workplace Culture on Therapist Wellness
Participants will analyze how organizational policies and peer support systems influence mental health professionals' resilience and job satisfaction, fostering a culture of wellness.

3. Develop Actionable Steps to Promote a Supportive Work Environment
Participants will design and share at least one initiative or policy idea aimed at promoting a supportive and healthy work environment within their organization.

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Facilitator: Dr. Ronya Green, MD, MPH, MBA

2Hr CEs (NBCC)

Cost: $100

Unresolved trauma doesn’t just live in the mind—it shapes the body. This engaging training explores the powerful link between trauma histories and autoimmune conditions, with a focus on culturally responsive, whole person care. Designed for LPCs, LCSWs, and other mental health professionals, this session offers practical tools to strengthen collaboration with primary care providers, empower client wellness, and expand trauma-informed practice.

Learning Objectives

Describe the relationship between trauma exposure and the onset/exacerbation of autoimmune conditions.

Identify culturally responsive approaches to discussing physical health concerns with clients in ways that honor their lived experiences.

Demonstrate strategies for collaboration with primary care providers to optimize wellness outcomes for clients with chronic health conditions.

Apply whole person care principles to therapeutic practice with clients managing both trauma histories and physical health challenges.

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Facilitators: Jasmine Price, LPC-S, LPC

3 Hr CEs (NBCC)

Cost: $150

Menstrual cycles are often reduced to medical or pathological narratives, especially for Black, Brown, and Indigenous women. This workshop reframes the menstrual cycle as a site of memory, emotional release, and ancestral connection, offering pathways to healing intergenerational trauma and rebuilding trust in the body. Participants will explore how menstrual disconnection—rooted in shame, systemic oppression, and family silencing—can be reclaimed as a deeply embodied therapeutic process. Through storytelling, psychoeducation, and practical tools, attendees will learn trauma-informed and culturally grounded strategies to support menstrual reconnection. This training is designed for therapists, birthworkers, educators, and community leaders seeking to expand trauma healing beyond cognition into ceremony, rhythm, and lineage.

Learning Objectives

Identify ways menstrual shame and generational disconnection contribute to mental health challenges in marginalized communities.

Describe how cycle education supports emotional awareness and intergenerational healing, including at least one strategy for engaging caregivers and youth.

Demonstrate understanding of trauma-informed approaches to reintroducing menstrual wellness—such as cycle tracking or emotional mapping—in therapeutic or community-based settings.

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Facilitators: Danielle McDowell, LPC

Location: Virtual

2 Hr CEs (NBCC)

Cost: $100

Trauma lives in bodies, families, communities, institutions, and cultural memory. Yet trauma-informed care is too often confined to treatment plans and clinical settings. This workshop reimagines healing beyond the therapy room, engaging in the collective, often difficult, work of transformation. Led by Licensed Professional Counselor, TEDx speaker, and women’s coach Danielle L. McDowell, this session expands trauma-informed care through a culturally responsive, identity-centered lens. Drawing on community healing circles, expressive arts, and racial justice consulting, Danielle highlights liberatory and embodied practices rooted in Black and Brown traditions of collective care. Participants will learn to integrate creative, somatic, and relational practices with individuals, couples, and groups, centering humanity—not pathology—in trauma responses. This training supports clinicians, community organizers, educators, and healing practitioners in holding space for grief, resistance, and renewal, while honoring resilience grounded in presence, connection, and radical honesty.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to: Identify and describe at least three collective or community-based healing practices that support trauma recovery beyond traditional therapy settings.

Apply culturally responsive, identity-centered strategies when working with clients from historically marginalized communities experiencing trauma.

Analyze the limitations of individual-focused trauma treatment models and develop a plan to incorporate somatic, expressive, or relational modalities into current clinical or community-based practice.

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Facilitators: Rachael DuBose

Location: Virtual

3 Hr CEs (NBCC)

Cost: $150

Supervision is more than compliance—it is a sacred space for reflection, resilience-building, and human connection. Brave Space Supervision is a trauma-informed, culturally responsive model designed to foster emotionally safe learning environments for clinicians and trainees. As trauma-informed care expands across systems, supervisory practices must also evolve by centering humanity, relational safety, and critical consciousness in every interaction. In this training, participants will explore core principles of trauma-informed supervision—safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment—and examine how these principles intersect with culturally affirming and relational models. Attention will be given to the impact of rupture and repair, power dynamics, emotional labor, and cultural identity in shaping supervisory relationships. Through real-world examples and reflective dyads, attendees will learn strategies to hold space with intention, attune to unspoken wounds, and cultivate resilience within the supervisory process.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to: Define emotional safety in the context of clinical supervision and identify its key components.

Examine how cultural identity, power dynamics, and trauma histories shape the supervision experience.

Apply trauma-informed, relational, and culturally responsive strategies to enhance emotional safety for supervisees.

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Facilitators: Alexis Lacy

Location: Virtual

1.5 Hr CEs (NBCC)

Cost: $75

This presentation explores the need for trauma-informed, identity-aware approaches to supporting families that are justice involved —particularly Black families disproportionately affected by the justice system. Incarceration is a traumatic experience for both the individual and their family creating long-lasting impacts. These impacts are further compounded by race-based, gendered, and systemic trauma, making trauma informed and culturally relevant support essential for long-term successful outcomes. Participants will gain insight into how practitioners can shift their approach to center healing, dignity, and cultural relevance. We will share methods and practical tools that empower families and communities to advocate for their loved ones during and after incarceration—especially those living with behavioral health challenges. The session will also highlight the role of community-led strategies in promoting long-term wellness and successful reentry. From peer support networks and reentry navigators to the radical power of rest and community care, we will examine how these collective, trauma-informed efforts foster generational healing.

Objectives:

1. Highlighting the need for trauma-informed and identity-aware healing approaches for practitioners. Examine how incarceration impacts Black families across generations, and why trauma-informed, culturally grounded approaches are essential for addressing the unique experiences of race-based, gendered, and systemic trauma during and after incarceration.

2. Sharing methods for empowering families and communities with tools for advocacy and navigation both during and after incarceration for long-term healing. Provide families and support networks with practical knowledge and tools to navigate the justice system, advocate for loved ones—especially those with behavioral health needs—and maintain critical connections that support long-term healing and restoration.

3. Promoting community-led, sustainable reentry, and wellness models that lead to successful reentry outcomes and generational healing. Emphasize the power of peer support, reentry navigators, community care, and rest as resistance in promoting wellness. Explore how collective care, informed by trauma and cultural context, creates conditions for successful reentry and generational healing.

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Facilitators: Dr. PaQuita Pullen

1.5 Hr CEs (NBCC)

Cost: $75

Clinicians of Color are faced with unique challenges such as discrimination,marginalization, and exclusion. These experiences are being managed inaddition to their clinical work as mental health professionals and healers. Many of these experiences are limited or avoided altogether in traditionalconversations on self-care, leaving Clinicians of Color vulnerable to psychological distress such as burnout. 
Engaging in decolonized practices that support the well-being for BIPOC clinicians is essential for two key reasons: retention and adherence to ethical practices. Absenteeism is a potential negative consequence of burnout which poses as a problem because Clinicians of Color can improve access and care for BIPOCindividuals, are more likely to engage in research relevant to BIPOC populations, and are more likely to facilitate multicultural competentconversations. Furthermore, Clinicians of Color have an ethical responsibility to monitor themselves for impairment as identified in the ACACode of Ethics. 
This presentation seeks to examine 2-3 stressors specific to BIPOC clinicians along with effective and culturally congruent strategies to address them. This presentation will be experiential and dynamic in nature! 

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Facilitators: Dr. Jaylynne Likely

Location: Virtual

2 Hr CEs (NBCC)

Cost: $100

Explore how microaggressions, macroaggressions, and implicit bias affect both client outcomes and the well-being of practitioners. This session provides audience members with tools to identify harmful interactions, understand the impact, and adopt culturally aware practices that disrupt bias, foster inclusive environments, and support healing across diverse communities

Objectives:

1. Define and differentiate types of microaggressions

2. Demonstrate increased cultural awareness and sensitivity by analyzing case studies and applying the principle of cultural humilty to respond to microaggressions that supports social work code of ethics

3. Apply evidence informed strategies to promote inclusivity in professional settings. Learners will develop techniques for self-reflection, active listening and interrupting bias while maintaining professional boundaries.

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Facilitators: Christal Pennic and Felipe Blue

3 Hr CEs (NBCC)

Cost: $150

Grief and bereavement are multifaceted processes that extend beyond sadness, encompassing psychological, emotional, physical, spiritual, and cultural dimensions. While grief is a universal human experience, each client’s journey is unique and influenced by personal history, family systems, culture, and the nature of the loss.

This training equips mental health counselors with knowledge and skills to navigate the complexities of grief support. Participants will gain clarity on the distinctions between grief, mourning, and bereavement, while also exploring how to differentiate typical grief responses from complicated or prolonged grief. Emphasis will be placed on culturally responsive care, lifespan considerations, and evidence-based interventions.

Counselors will also reflect on their own experiences of grief, learning strategies to build resilience and prevent burnout when working with grieving clients.

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NBCC 3.5 hour CEU Only (not registration for event)

$25

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