October 2026

Friday, October 30th - 12pm CT/ 1pm ET

Counseling at the Crossroads: Strengthening Professional Counselor Identity in a Changing Behavioral Health Landscape

Presented by Dana Isawi, PhD, LPC, NCC - NCACES President

This webinar will explore the foundations of -professional counselor identity and examine how changes in counselor education, accreditation, licensure, workforce needs, and changing behavioral health landscape may shape the future of counseling. Participants will consider how we can strengthen and advocate for the distinct identity and contributions of professional counselors across educational, clinical, and broader behavioral health settings.

November 2026

Friday, November 13th - 12pm CT / 1pm ET

Compassionate, Humanistic, Culturally Responsive Supervision: New Research, Models, and Techniques

Presented by Tara Gray, PhD, LPC, LMHC, LAC, LPSC, ACS, RPT-S and Rachel Goodwyn Ellenberger, PhD, MS, LPSC, LCMHCA

Are you a supervisor who wants to learn the most recently published counseling supervision models and techniques but you don’t have the time to read all the journals yourself? This presentation supports counselor educators and supervisors with recently published, evidence-based models, strategies, skills and techniques for best practices in ethical counseling supervision. This presentation will facilitate new knowledge regarding compassionate, developmental approaches to clinical supervision that are humanistic, multicultural and culturally responsive for diverse clients and counselors in diverse settings, including how to provide culturally sensitive corrective feedback in supervision. This topic enhances the practice of counseling supervision through the promotion of 4 culturally sustaining and responsive counseling supervision models and introduces supervisors to 3 new creative, culturally sustaining supervision tools and techniques, including the Supervision House, the Reflective Roadmap and Mutual Storytelling techniques. This presentation includes a supervision case study discussion at the end to allow supervisors a chance to apply their new skills with a real supervision scenario and discussion. Counselor educators and supervisors will leave this presentation with new knowledge and skills for ethical, humanistic, culturally responsive, and creative supervision models, skills and techniques.

December 2026

Friday, December 11th - 12pm CT / 1pm ET

Building Counseling and Extension: Training Counselors for Equitable Community Mental Health

Presented by Natese Dockery, PhD, LPC

Many communities, particularly rural or underserved areas, face barriers to accessing traditional mental health services. Counselor educators can prepare trainees to engage in prevention, education, and community outreach efforts that support community well-being. Cooperative extension systems provide an established infrastructure for delivering wellness programming, educational initiatives, and community engagement. This webinar highlights the mutually beneficial collaboration between counselors and extension professionals, illustrating how counseling frameworks can inform program development and how extension settings can provide experiential learning opportunities for counselors-in-training.

Participants will examine strategies for integrating community-based educational experiences into counselor education and supervision, explore examples of successful collaboration, and discuss supervision considerations for preparing trainees to work in nontraditional, community-focused contexts. Attendees will leave with actionable ideas for fostering partnerships that enhance counselor education while promoting community mental health and wellness.

January 2027

Friday, January 8th - 12pm CT / 1pm ET

Educational Approaches for Teaching Size Inclusive Counseling Practice

Presented by Lyndsay Deal, PhD, LPC, NCC, BC-TMH

The purpose of this presentation is to provide an overview of empirically informed instructional content related to addressing weight bias among counselors-in-training, weight bias, or sizeism, is a psychologically and physically distressing form of discrimination that has been observed among practicing counselors, counselors-in-training, and other mental health professionals. Strategies for addressing sizeism and promoting size inclusive care have been explored by counseling researchers as well as scholars in other health professions. This webinar will review the types of content and instructional approaches that have been found effective in reducing weight bias among counselors-in-training and other health profession trainees. The aim of this presentation is to disseminate strategies for implementing size inclusive training within counselor education programs.