MICHIGAN COUNSELING ASSOCIATION |
2024 MCA Annual ConferenceTrauma-Informed Counseling in an Unequal World: Healing Through Social JusticeMay 17, 2024 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM | VirtualJoin counselors and mental health professionals across Michigan for our annual conference. Together we will network and learn from one another. Through keynote and breakout sessions, we will increase our knowledge and professional skills. Our conference theme will focus on trauma-informed techniques and their role in addressing the impact of social injustices and promoting healing within marginalized communities. |
Welcome and Announcements | 9:00-9:15 AM
Keynote Session | 9:15-10:15 AM
Standing on Business: Abolitionist Counseling | LaShawn Adams, Doctoral Candidate, LAC, NCC
Breakout Session | 10:30-11:30 AM
Workplace Mistreatment By Gender and Race: Best Practices for Counselors | Stephanie Burns, Ph.D., LPC, NCC
Prolonged Grief Disorder in African Americans and Grief Models That Support their Exploration of Grief and Healing | Jennifer Matthews, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS & Faith Lee, B.A.
Becoming a Socially Responsible Provider | Charan Bashir, M.A., LPC & Tateanna Foster, LMSW
Survival of the unfittest: Trauma Experience Among African Refugees Living in the United States | Reuben Mwangi, PhD, LPC
Lunch Break & Networking | 11:30-12:15 PM
Breakout Session | 12:15-1:15 PM
Implicit Bias | Mary Thomas, PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS & Kristina Marshall, JD
Adulting is Hard When You’re a Kid; Recognizing and Eradicating Adultification | Destinee Smith, MA, LCPC (MD), LPC (DC), NCC, C-DBT
Rest During Chaos | LaShonda Fuller, Ph.D., LPC, NCC & Jazmine Martin, B.S.
Cultivating Resilient Leaders: A Trauma-Informed Approach | Demarra West, M.A., LPC
Breakout Session | 1:30-2:30 PM
Snapshots of Mourning: Using Photography to Process Traumatic Loss | Kailey Bradley, MA, LPCC-S, NCC, FT & Brad Imhoff, Phd, LPC
Providing Trauma and Culturally Informed Care when Counseling LGBTQ+ Clients | Nikki Adams, QMHP, Mental Health Intern, CADC I Intern & Edward Ewe, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, ACS
Navigating incel identities and violence in counseling | Quentin Hunter, PhD, LPC, NCC & Johnathan Platt, EMU Grad Student
Learn EFT Tapping for Self-Regulation and Trauma Work | Tijana Coso, M.A., Master EFT, Trauma EFT
Keynote Session | 2:45-3:45 PM
Healing wounds from our harmful past and creating pathways to an equitable future | Lotes Nelson, Ph.D., LCMHC-S, ASC, NCC
Wrap Up and Giveaways | 3:45-4:15 PM
5 CEUs Available - The MCA is NBCC ACEP Provider No. 2023.