Summer Symposium 2026 Day 2
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These workshops offer 18 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
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Once you register for the conference, there is no need to pre-register or select your classes prior to the conference. At the time of each class, you will select the class from the time slot that you want to enter.
Summer Symposium SCHEDULE 2026
Day 2 – July 29, 2026
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Select one of the following classes
Class A
The Burnout Cycle: Understand It. Interrupt It. Change Your Life. (3 CE Credits)
Burnout among helping professionals has reached critical levels, affecting ethical decision-making, emotional regulation, and overall clinical effectiveness. This webinar introduces the BREATHE™ Framework, a clinically grounded, trauma-informed model designed to help professionals identify burnout patterns, restore nervous system regulation, and build sustainable practices that support long-term professional capacity.
Participants will examine the psychological, emotional, and systemic contributors to burnout, differentiate burnout from stress and compassion fatigue, and explore the ethical implications of untreated burnout in clinical practice. Through a combination of didactic instruction, guided discussion, experiential activities, and case application, participants will gain practical tools to prevent professional impairment, enhance self-regulation, and align personal well-being with ethical and effective service delivery.
3 hours
(Trainer, Dr. Ana Daniels-Omomarho, PhD, LMSW is a therapist, educator, and emotional wellness expert specializing in burnout prevention and recovery. She is the creator of the BREATHE™ Framework and has extensive experience supporting helping professionals in clinical, hospice, and educational settings through evidence-informed training and practice. Dr Daniels-Omomarho is the author of It's Ok To Be a Unicorn: A 30-Day Introduction to Social-Emotional Learning)
Class B
In high-pressure social work environments, the line between effective leadership and "draining" management often blurs. This new 3-hour training provides supervisors with a scholarly foundation for shifting from compliance-based oversight to resilience-based leadership. Grounded in Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) and Psychological Safety frameworks, participants will analyze how their leadership patterns impact team functioning and secondary traumatic stress. Through a "Belief Audit" and interactive case studies, attendees will move beyond theory to practice, leaving with at least three immediate resilience-building micro-habits and a personalized leadership action plan.
3 hours
(Trainer, Michelle Brown, LISW-S, with over 20 years of experience in the mental health field, has dedicated her career to creating supportive, trauma-informed environments for students and families. She currently serves as the Clinical Director of Empowering to Elevate in Ohio and teaches social work as an adjunct professor at Youngstown University.)
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Class A
Whose Motivation Is it Anyway? Using Motivational Interviewing to Guide, Not Control (3 CE Credits)
Participants will examine the spirit of Motivational Interviewing —collaboration, acceptance, evocation, and compassion—and explore how practitioner communication styles, assumptions, and the “righting reflex” can either support or impede client engagement. Grounded in evidence-informed theories and frameworks, this training emphasizes practical strategies for engaging clients, rolling with resistance, eliciting change talk, and supporting readiness for change across stages.
Through applied examples, reflective exercises, and structured practice, participants will strengthen their ability to guide conversations that honor autonomy, reduce resistance, and promote sustainable, client-driven change in diverse practice settings.
3 hours
(Trainer, Crystal Rozelle-Bennett, LMSW is an educator, an advocate, a survivor, and a self-proclaimed thriver! For the past 25 years she has been driven by her personal experiences of trauma to elevate and amplify the voices of individuals and communities, to promote healing and opportunities to move from surviving to thriving. Crystal has worked alongside professionals to create trauma informed, culturally inclusive and person-centered spaces. Her work experiences include advocacy within the child welfare system, oversight of child and youth programs, crisis hotline response, delivery of community based mental health services and implementing trauma informed strategies and programs for school districts. She has been called upon to provide training, coaching, consultation and keynote presentations across the nation in the subject areas of Human Trafficking, Suicide Prevention, Motivational Interviewing, Community and Collective Care, Anti-oppressive and Culturally Responsive Service Provision, Child Trauma & Maltreatment and Racial Trauma)
Class B
Mental health clinicians are increasingly practicing in contexts marked by chronic stress, systemic strain, and pervasive uncertainty, placing them at elevated risk for emotional exhaustion, moral distress, and erosion of hope. This presentation offers a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)–aligned framework for understanding and responding to uncertainty, framing hope not as optimism or certainty but as sustained engagement in building a “life worth living” despite ambiguity. Balance is conceptualized as a dynamic process requiring ongoing attention to emotional vulnerability, boundaries, and effectiveness. The presentation normalizes clinician stress responses to uncertainty and introduces DBT-consistent strategies to support clinician sustainability, improved client outcomes, and ethical practice.
3 hours
(Trainer, Denise Bundick, LCSW, LICSW, CEAP, is the co-owner/co-director of Falls Neuropsychology and Psychotherapy Associates, PLLC located in Raleigh, NC. She has over 30 years of experience providing psychotherapy services to a diverse client population in a variety of treatment settings. She is the author of “On The Spot Resilience Skills” and provides training in these skills to her clients and community, as well as to other professionals through Continuing Education Courses.)
Evening Sessions
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Select one of the following classes
Class A
From Awareness to Action: The Ethics of Trauma-Informed Care (3 CE Credits)
Trauma is ubiquitous, with far-reaching negative impacts on individuals and communities. Mental health providers need to be competent in bringing a trauma-informed ethical decision-making framework into their clinical practice, agencies, and systems, in order to actively counter the effects of trauma while promoting healing, resilience, and recovery.
This foundational training offers clinicians a comprehensive introduction to the core tenets of trauma-informed care (TIC), while integrating the ethical principles guiding our profession, and highlighting cultural awareness and cultural humility as essential cornerstones of our work. Professional challenges like burnout, vicarious trauma, and boundaries will be examined through an ethical, trauma-informed lens, and strategies for how to mitigate such challenges will be addressed. In addition to didactic and reflective elements, the TIC principles and ethical codes of conduct will be brought to life through thought-provoking case scenarios - so participants can move from awareness to application to action.
3 hours
(Trainer, Lindsay Murn, PhD, LP, CCTP, is a Licensed Psychologist in the State of Minnesota. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and Master Certified Accelerated Resolution Therapy Practitioner with over 17 years of clinical, assessment, and consulting experience spanning multiple settings. Dr. Murn has published original research on her work with survivors of sexual violence. She owns a private practice specializing in trauma-focused psychotherapy. Her clinical specialties include trauma-informed psychotherapy and assessments for adults looking to deepen their self-understanding and foster resilience. In addition, Dr. Murn is dedicated to training the next generation of professionals as a clinical supervisor, consultant, and professional development trainer.)
Class B
Supporting Job Seekers: empowerment, meaning, and practical skills (3 CE Credits)
At this time there are many unemployed people in the united states. Being unemployed can result in major life stressors and a loss of identity. As clinicians we cannot solve a clients problems, but there are ways therapy can support someone in the process of a job search. This training reviews the current context, therapeutic strategies for support and basic overview of best practice for job readiness skills.
3 hours
(Trainer, Kalliroi Matsakis, LICSW, LCSW-C, is a licensed clinical social worker in DC and Maryland. She has worked in community mental health as well as maintained a private practice. She has worked as a therapist at a community clinic, in crisis care and in transitional housing. Kalliroi is licensed to provide supervision towards licensure. She has certifications in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, trauma informed therapy and vicarious trauma prevention.)
