Conference Host & Panelist

Conference Host & Panelist

Serving With Purpose: Merging Faith and Business in Your Counseling Practice

Merging Faith and Business in Your Counseling Practice, explores how Christian counseling professionals can integrate their faith into business operations while maintaining ethical and professional excellence. Through biblical principles, interactive discussions, and practical strategies, participants will learn how to build a faith-centered practice, develop a faith-driven mission, and navigate challenges such as legal considerations and workplace culture. Attendees will engage in hands-on activities to craft mission statements, core values, faith-based decision-making frameworks, problem-solve real-world scenarios, and create actionable faith-based business goals. By the end of this session, participants will be equipped with the tools and confidence to lead their counseling practice in a way that honors God and serves clients with integrity.

Stepping Out in Faith: Courageously Navigating Pivots, Expansions, and New Beginnings in Your Practice

Taking bold steps in business often requires faith, especially when facing the uncertainty of pivoting, expanding, or in some cases, even closing a practice. In this workshop, participants will explore how to discern the next right step for their business. Participants will learn practical tools for navigating transitions, overcoming fear, and aligning their professional goals with their faith. Attendees will leave inspired to move forward with clarity and confidence, knowing that God's purpose often unfolds in unexpected ways.

Navigating Spiritual Trauma: A Clinical and Pastoral Approach

This presentation, Navigating Spiritual Trauma: A Clinical and Pastoral Approach, explores the intersection of faith, trauma, and therapeutic healing for Christian mental health clinicians. It examines how various perceptions of God—such as God as distant, creator, love, and judge—can contribute to or alleviate spiritual trauma. The session informs clinicians on trauma-informed therapeutic approaches, including EMDR, cognitive restructuring, and narrative therapy, to support clients in processing religious trauma while maintaining their spiritual autonomy. Additionally, it highlights the importance of clinician self-care to prevent vicarious trauma and burnout. Finally, practical business applications for private practice clinicians are discussed, including ethical considerations, niche marketing strategies, and content creation opportunities to serve faith-based clients effectively.

The Influential Leader: How Great Leaders Change Employee Behavior

Through a new model of leadership, we will explore the science and story behind how to influence behavior. The session will review various strategies that a leader can leverage to increase their ability to ask the right questions of themselves, their employee and their organization - in order to drastically improve results

Strategic Blogging: A Clinical and Practice-Building Tool for Building a Practice Aligned with Your Faith

Blogging isn’t just a marketing tool—it’s a way to serve clients, establish authority, and grow your practice. This presentation will explore how therapists can create clinically relevant content that supports client growth while also strengthening their practice’s reputation. Participants will gain practical strategies for planning, writing, and optimizing blog posts, even with a busy schedule.

Culturally Sensitive Counseling: Understanding and Serving Latino Clients in Faith-Based Practices

This presentation will equip faith-based practice owners and clinicians with the tools to provide culturally sensitive care for Latino clients. Participants will learn how to integrate Latino individuals’ unique cultural, spiritual, and familial values into their counseling practices. The session will address common barriers that Latino clients face when accessing mental health services and present strategies to overcome these challenges within a faith-based context. Furthermore, attendees will explore practical ways to honor cultural traditions and beliefs while offering evidence-based and biblically informed counseling. By cultivating cultural competency, participants will discover how to enhance their counseling services, attract a broader client base, and build meaningful connections with Latino communities, ultimately fostering growth in their private practices.

Building Culture: Gatherings and Retreats in Group Practice

Wondering what the options are to build relationships in your practice? This training is for those interested in learning more about gatherings and multi day retreats that include serving, CE events, celebrating, and relationship building together in group practice. CCFAM has hosted gatherings for staff and their families with 10-30 employees over the last decade. We will cover planning, considerations, agenda, setting, themes, content ideas, and evaluation of gatherings and retreats. Come learn about the many ways to start building community with your team!

Managing Gross Margins in Your Practice to Ensure Profitability

This session explores the critical role of gross margin management in ensuring your practice’s profitability. Attendees will learn how to analyze revenue, control costs, and set pricing strategies that drive sustainable financial success. By focusing on the key factors influencing gross margins, you’ll gain actionable insights to optimize expenses and increase overall profitability. Whether you’re looking to refine your financial approach or boost your bottom line, this session provides the tools to help your practice thrive.

Sustainable Practice: How to prevent burnout and create professional longevity

SUSTAINABLE PRACTICE is an emerging model for clinician health and career longevity developed by Susan Doak, LPC for the purpose of preventing burnout for mental health workers. The model is purposefully simple and meant to be applied in real life. The model is broad and meant to include mental health clinicians in all settings. This prevention model can be applied as a strategy for a clinician’s career longevity and satisfaction. The goal is to give clinicians tools to successfully navigate their career in mental health through a variety of job settings, life events, and industry changes.

Building or Battling? How to Thrive as Partners Growing Your Practice

Join us for a refreshingly authentic and lighthearted presentation on building a counseling practice as a couple. In a relaxed environment filled with humor and genuine experiences, we will delve into the art of balancing professional aspirations and personal relationships. Discover effective communication strategies that will not only improve your counseling practice but also strengthen your bond as partners. Explore the importance of setting boundaries and achieving a healthy work-life balance to avoid burnout. Uncover collaborative decision-making techniques to navigate conflicts and foster unity. We'll emphasize the significance of building a supportive network of like-minded professionals who can provide guidance and accountability. And last but not least, gain insights into the vital role of self-care, personal growth, and maintaining a healthy mindset to sustain both your practice and relationship. Get ready for an enlightening and entertaining journey towards a harmonious and fulfilling professional and personal life together.

Aligning Your Business Finances & Practices to Your Core Values

It's time to learn how to align your business practices & finances to your core values. Cindy & Nate will be talking through how to build a successful business that is both profitable & aligns to your core values. You may think that you can either build a successful and profitable business, or one that connects to your values and is generous to your team and your community. There is another way and we'll talk through it with hands-on examples relating to team-building, generosity, compensation for your team, and community outreach. It's time to build a business that is both value-driven and profitable.

Retirement Plans Made Simple

This presentation guides practice owners through the maze of retirement options. Whether you're in solo practice or a group practice owner, we'll break down the available choices, contribution limits, and help you figure out the best path for your future. If you’re wondering how to get started, not sure your current Retirement Plan is the right one – or just feeling stuck when it comes to saving for retirement, this is the session for you!

Marketing a Faith-Based Practice

This session explores marketing strategies for marketing a faith-based organization. It examines how organizations can effectively utilize marketing tools to enhance their outreach and engagement with their communities. The discussion includes the application of ethical marketing practices that align with the organization's core beliefs and values. Additionally, the session explores challenges and opportunities unique to promoting faith-based services in a diverse and dynamic environment. By understanding these aspects, participants will be better equipped to develop and implement marketing strategies that resonate with their target audience while maintaining the integrity of their faith-based mission.

Create, Streamline, Delegate: Build a Practice That Runs on Efficiency, Strong Leadership, and Seamless Communication, Allowing You to Work On It, Not In It

This presentation will cover how to know when you are in need of a leadership team. How to begin the selection process to create a leadership team, and then how to create workflows that teach and emphasize strong communication, delegation, and accountability. The presentation will begin by examining the factors that can allow attendees to determine if they are in need of a leadership team. From there we will examine what positions are needed on a leadership team for a group practice. Lastly, we will examine an overview of the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual processes of a leadership team, including how to create systems, maximize efficiency, not constantly be in meetings, and ensure you are operating on the same shared vision.

Design, Delegate, Lead: The Roadmap For Private Practice Marketing Success

Building sustainable marketing that grows with your practice is more challenging that ever before. In this session you will understand what marketing you need to design to generate ideal clients, how to delegate marketing this marketing to team members or vendors and understand how to lead your marketing team to consistently run a system that generates your practice clients.