During the COVID-19 pandemic, licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders realized the general population is truly UN-Grounded. The world witnessed levels of fear and paranoia never seen before, with mental health professionals’ schedules booked and...
Pastors
613 | Rebuild Their Gospel Identity: The Power of the Attuned Church on the Post-abortion Community
Abortion can be a traumatic experience leading to significant distortions of how men and women view themselves, others, and God. Pastors, pastoral counselors, and lay counselors can play an active role in leading and guiding the post-abortion person in reconstructing...
614 | Combining Faith and Evidence-based Interventions for Christian Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Sexual assault is a pervasive and traumatic experience that affects over half of the female population and at least one-third of the male population at some point in their lives (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2022). Often, regardless of the period in...
615 | Victimology and Restorative Care in Domestic Sex Trafficking
Using the data collected over 10 years from The Samaritan Women, an anti-human trafficking organization, this session offers a victim-centered way of looking at the trauma of domestic sex trafficking. Through statistics, case studies, and anecdotal analysis, this...
502 | The Healing Church: What Churches Get Wrong about Pornography and How to Fix it
A hidden cycle traps Christian men and women in a repetitive course of porn use and private confession. The answers most ministry leaders offer fail to free the ensnared. It is not enough to say the local church has a hidden porn problem. Church leaders deserve a...
503 | Growth After Loss: A Positive and Empowering Model to Facilitate Healing and Resilience in Treatment
Loss frequently catapults individuals into a negative space. In this workshop, licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders will learn to utilize Switch Theory to empower clients to move toward a positive space using therapeutic activities. These...
505 | Above the Sheets: Barriers to Sexual Intimacy Outside the Bedroom
When it comes to sexual intimacy, unexpected factors often get in the way of a healthy and fulfilling marital sex life. Many of those factors have to do with things outside of the act of sex. Licensed mental health practitioners and ministry leaders must thoroughly...
506 | Hope for Clients with Unwanted Same-sex Attraction and Gender Dysphoria: Examining Scripture and Science
Often, clients who experience unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria feel hopeless about their struggles. Some are bombarded with the culture’s lies—“born gay, can’t change; it’s harmful to try to change; gay is good; dissent is bad; gender is...
507 | The Trauma-informed Marriage: Avoiding Contempt by Embracing Reality in Dual-trauma Marriages
Few theories of marriage counseling have been accepted at the level that “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” has enjoyed since Dr. Gottman published his findings in the 1980s. The four horsemen—Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling—carry a collective...
508 | Bleeding While Leading: Helping Complex Ministry Marriages Survive and Thrive
Ministry can be hazardous, especially for marriages. There is a unique subset of issues that put ministry marriages at risk. Licensed mental health professionals and ministry leaders need to be equipped to recognize and address these risk factors. In order to best do...