WVCA Fall Conference & Retreat 2024

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9:15-10:45 am	Opening Call to Advocacy
10:55 am-12:25 pm	Breakout 1a: Empowering Tomorrow's Counselors to be Theoretically Grounded, Professionally Licensed, and to Advance Their Careers
	Breakout 1b: Champions for Change: Leveraging Research for Advocacy in Professional Counseling
	Breakout 1c: Military Mental Health, part 1
1:45-3:15 pm	Breakout 2a: Exploring the Embodied Debris of Religious and Spiritual Trauma: Healing Through Somatic Experiencing and Narrative Trauma-Focused Therapy
	Breakout 2b: Best Practice: Updates to and Application of the ASAM Criteria
	Breakout 2c: Military Mental Health, part 2
3:25-4:55 pm	Breakout 3a: Opioid Use Disorder in Pregnancy: An Opportunity for the Rebirth of Compassion
	Breakout 3b: Verbal Aikido: Responding to Invalidation, part 1
	Breakout 3c: Yoga for Mental Health, part 1
5:05-6:35 pm	Breakout 4a: Language as a Counseling Skill
	Breakout 4b: Verbal Aikido: Responding to Invalidation, part 2
	Breakout 4c: Yoga for Mental Health, part 2

8:45-9:45 am	Keynote: Empowering Voices: Teaching Clients Self-Advocacy with DBT Skills
9:55-11:25 am	Breakout 5a: Navigating Imposter Syndrome: A Polyvagal Perspective for Clinical Supervisors, part 1
	Breakout 5b: Surviving a Licensure Complaint
	Breakout 5c: Engaging Theories: Creative Approaches to Theory-Driven Counseling
12:30-2:00 pm	Breakout 6a: Navigating Imposter Syndrome: A Polyvagal Perspective for Clinical Supervisors, part 2
	Breakout 6b: Generative AI 101: Responsible and Ethical Use in the Age of Ubiquity
	Breakout 6c: Creativity and Self-Care: Finding New Ways to Replenish and Refresh on a Daily Basis
2:10-3:40 pm	Breakout 7a: Ethical Speed Dating: A Dynamic Approach to Enhancing Ethical Decision-Making Skills, part 1
	Breakout 7b: From Practice to Policy Work: How to Advocate for Change
	Breakout 7c: Sex is Sex Unless it's Not: Re-Establishing Intimacy in the Wake of Sex Addiction, part 1
3:50-5:20 pm	Breakout 8a: Ethical Speed Dating: A Dynamic Approach to Enhancing Ethical Decision-Making Skills, part 2
	Breakout 8b: Food and Mood: Can Foods and Dietary Supplements Really Impact Mental Health Status?
	Breakout 8c: Sex is Sex Unless it's Not: Re-Establishing Intimacy in the Wake of Sex Addiction, part 2

8:30-10:00 am	Breakout 9a: Holiday Survival Skills, part 1
	Breakout 9b: Metabolizing Loss: Food as a Collective Grief Ritual
	Breakout 9c: Strengthening Your Psychological Body Armor™, part 1
10:10-11:40 am	Breakout 10a: Holiday Survival Skills, part 2
	Breakout 10b: Can God be Ethical? The Ethical Dilemmas and Need for Spiritual Integration
	Breakout 10c: Strengthening Your Psychological Body Armor™, part 2
11:50 am-1:20 pm	Breakout 11a: The Intern is Here: Maximizing the Role of Site Supervisor
	Breakout 11b: A Collaborative Gatekeeping Process in Fostering the Development of Counselors-in-Training
	Breakout 11c: Accelerated Resolution Therapy: "Is This Magic?"