Institutes
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 Programs
Clinical Institute programs offer in-depth training opportunities in evidence-based practices. Each program provides theoretical grounding and practical skills through a combination of didactic, experiential, and interactive practices.
Poster of Institutes Coming Soon!
Fall/Spring 2025-2026 Programs:
October 9, 2025 (Thursday)
Institute on Spirituality, Religion, and Mental Health Practice
Keynotes: Dr. Nora Dennis, Jubilee Healing Farm on Land-Based Mental Health and Collective Healing and
Dr. Russell Siler Jones on Spiritual Assessment in Mental Health Practice
Afternoon options: Politicization of Religion w/ Rev. Amanda Rigsby, Dr. Elizabeth Watters & Greta Martin, LCSW; Spiritually Informed Care w/ Rev. Dr. Alvernia Disnew; Working with Religious Trauma w/ Kennetra Irby-Brackett, DMin, LCSW, Chaplain; Embodied Healing w/ Dr. Millicent N. Robinson
October 30-31, 2025 (Thursday and Friday)
Showing Up with Self-Compassion and Values: Integrating ACT and FAP in Uncertain Times
Trainer: Holly Yates MS, LCMHC, Certified Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) Trainer
February 26-27, 2026 (Thursday and Friday)
Internal Family Systems: Experiential Practices for Therapists
Trainer: Deborah Klinger, LMFT, CEDS-C, IFS Approved Consultant
April 1-3, 2026 (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday)
Behind the Therapy Chair: The Parts We Don’t Talk About
Trainer: Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW
Previous Fall/Spring 2024-2025 Programs:
October 10, 2024 (Thursday)
Cultivating Liberation: Exploration of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy (with a focus on ketamine)
Trainer: Candace Oglesby, LCPC
October 25, 2024 (Friday)
Possibilities as Plots: Reconstructing and Redefining Reality through Narrative Therapy
Trainer: Mauricio Yabar, Ph.D., LCSW, M.Ed.
January 23, 2025 (Thursday)
Hypnosis for Healing: An integrated approach for treating people with anxiety and trauma
Trainer: Laurie Emmer-Martin, DSW, LCSW
March 19 – 21, 2025 (Wednesday – Friday)
Collaborative Healing with Internal Family Systems: An interactive in-person program (with Zoom viewing option)
Trainers: Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW & Deborah Klinger, M.A., LMFT, CEDS-S
April 10-11, 2025 (Thursday-Friday)
Trailblazing New Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Ground: Beyond Context & Cultural Humility
Trainer: Paul T. Guillory, PhD
Most all previous events are available as self-paced CE courses here.