Clinical Lectures
Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 Programs
The Clinical Lecture Series aims to provide best practices for students, professionals, community members, and all who are caring for individuals and families in ways that are therapeutic, anti-oppressive, intersectional, and centered on self-determination. These meet on at the UNC School of Social Work on Mondays at 12 noon with a catered meet-and-greet reception that opens at 11:30am. Livestream is also offered via Zoom.
Fall 2025 & Spring 2026 Programs:
September 8, 2025 – A Shaman’s Perspective on Consciousness, Psychedelics, and Healing w/ Vonetta Taylor
Trainer: Vonetta E. Taylor
September 29, 2025 –Navigating Tough Conversations
Trainer: Melissa Segal, LCSW
October 27, 2025 – Change for the better: How to Undo Aloneness and Transform Trauma
Trainer: Sonya Parker, LCSW, RYT Trainer: Ben Medley, LCSW
November 10, 2025 – Ethical and Responsible Use of AI for Therapeutic Practice
Trainer: Marina Badillo-Diaz, DSW, LCSW
January 26, 2026 – Political Grief and Restoration
Trainer: Peggy P. Whiting, LCMHCS, FT
February 23, 2026 – Living Amid Fear: Supporting the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Immigrants and Refugees
Panelists:
Ch
eryl Chew, Esq. 
Edith Galvan Lopez 
Elizabeth Godown, MSW
Rachel Mack, LCSW Maria Peralta Porra
March 30, 2026 – Making Life Worth Living: Culturally Inclusive Suicide Prevention for Black Youth
Trainer: Sonyia Richardson, Ph.D., LCSW
April 13, 2026 – Ethical Life in Unethical Times: Moral Injury, Complicity, and Repair
Trainer: Jason Nieuwsma, PhD Trainer: Warren Kinghorn, ThD, MD
Fall 2024 & Spring 2025 Past Programs:
September 30, 2024 – Politics stay outside of the therapy space, or do they? A panel on ethics, perspectives, and models
Panelist: Asia Tonja Marie Amos, Ph.D. Panelist: Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW Panelist: Jennifer Plumb Vilardaga, Ph.D.
October 14, 2024 – Case conceptualization: Weaving together a trauma-informed lens and DBT principles to increase intentionality in therapy
Trainer: Jennifer Cobb, LCSW, DBTC
November 4, 2024 – Getting unstuck: Navigating therapy impasses to foster client growth
Trainer: Katherine Schulz, LCSW
November 8, 2024 – Essential Skills for Disaster Mental Health and Crisis Response
Trainer: Tab Ballis, LCSW, LCAS, CCS
January 27, 2025 – Trauma: The haystack, not the needle! How to contextualize, assess, and treat trauma-related behaviors in young people
Trainer: Donna Newberne, LCMHCS
February 17, 2025 – Befriending bodily sensations: A practical introduction to interoceptive exposure in clinical practice
Trainer: Clair Robbins, Ph.D.
March 3, 2025 – POSTPONED – Undoing aloneness in the face of overwhelming trauma: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Trainer: Sonya Parker, LCSW, RYT-200
Most all previous events are available as self-paced CE courses here.