Roy Barsness

Conventional supervisory relationships follow a teaching model, where the supervisor shoulders the responsibility of advising, critiquing, offering feedback. This seminar introduces a new model of supervision, that emphasizes affect over cognition and privileges the therapist’s subjectivity as the primary access point to the patient’s internal and interpersonal world.

Kharma Parker, Eric L. Johnson, Fernando Garzon

Internal Family Systems is a therapeutic model rapidly growing in popularity. In this workshop IFS will be briefly introduced; outlining foundational concepts and flow. Both concerns and strengths regarding the model will be discussed from a Christian worldview. Implications for clinical practice are discussed and alternate adaptations will be proposed.

Mark Yarhouse, Julia Sadusky

In this workshop we will review the diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition Text Revision. We will discuss assessment of Gender Dysphoria in adolescents and emerging adults, including domains from a comprehensive gender interview, including gender history, onset and course of symptoms of gender dysphoria, consistency of cross- or other-gender identity, response to changes at puberty, and so on. We will also identify screeners for common co-occurring concerns, measures of past and current gender dysphoria, body image, and quality of life. We will set this discussion of assessment in the context of larger cultural discussions and controversies in care for youth today, including recent guidelines, recommendations for assessment, and review documents.

2025 Post-Conference Workshops

Post-Conference and Post-Conference Workshops require registration and additional costs; they are not included in the general conference registration fee.

Randolph K. Sanders

Clients often come to therapy with spiritual concerns or questions about moral values. It is vital that clinicians know how to respond to these issues ethically. In this workshop, we will consider ethical standards that relate to these issues including therapist competence, relevant informed consent, and the welfare and autonomy of the client. Case studies will be used to practically illustrate points and suggest ways for creatively handling ethical dilemmas.

Earl Bland, Brad Strawn, John Poston, Tessa Trussell Wolf

This seminar begins with clinical cases – love stories – relationships freighted with all the complexities and nuances of longing and connection experienced in the therapeutic frame. Responding, two seasoned clinicians broaden our thinking about love in clinical work, its temptations, its promises, its disappointments, its embodiment of Christ, and its cure.

Ted Witzig

When OCD afflicts Christian clients, the symptoms (and treatments) are frequently misunderstood by the sufferers as well as their family, clergy, and other health professionals. This workshop will provide clinicians with practical skills to support and integrate the client’s spiritual beliefs into empirically-supported treatments for OCD.