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From Calling to Stewardship: The Therapist’s Journey from Clinician to Christian Practice Owner

This 90-minute presentation is designed to support Christian therapists navigating the transition from clinician to private practice owner. Participants will explore the emotional, spiritual, and professional challenges of leadership, examine the shift from working in the practice to working on the practice, and identify sustainable strategies for owner well-being. Emphasis is placed on stewardship, boundaries, and maintaining intimacy with God while leading a growing practice. This program integrates clinical leadership concepts with Christian faith-based reflection while remaining applicable to ethical and professional counseling practice.

Beyond Group Practice: Designing Sustainable Income Streams That Fit Your Skills, Values, and Season of Life

Many therapists are interested in growing or diversifying their income but believe their only option is starting a group practice. This experiential workshop invites participants to explore a wide range of ethical, values-aligned income streams that extend beyond clinical work, including supervision, teaching, consulting, speaking, creative services, and other skill-based ventures. Attendees will examine common myths around “passive income” and gain a realistic understanding of the effort, structure, and readiness required to add new income streams responsibly. Through guided reflection and interactive exercises, participants will identify transferable skills, personal interests, and existing networks that can inform sustainable opportunities. Each attendee will leave with a personalized roadmap to begin exploring or building an additional income stream after the summit.

Organize Your Practice in a Way That Works

This workshop equips Christian private practice owners with a practical framework for organizing their business into clear, manageable categories including finances, personnel, and systems. By placing each area into its own “box,” leaders gain directional focus and reduce the mental load that often accompanies practice ownership. This approach supports wise stewardship, sustainable leadership, and intentional decision-making. Participants will leave with a repeatable structure that brings order, clarity, and peace to their practice.

Practice Owner as Cultivator | Faith-anchored frameworks for cultivating your practice, your team, and your profit

Practice Owner as Cultivator guides leaders through practical operating rhythms for growth, distilled from three biblical passages. You’ll learn to cultivate people, culture, and yourself; spot and prune bottlenecks; and install simple systems that make operations lighter and your team stronger. You’ll leave with a toolbox of leadership rhythms that anchor focus and create momentum. Step into your role as a business cultivator who plants, prunes, and produces lasting practice growth.

When Faith Meets the Therapy Room: Purpose-Driven Counseling

When Faith Meets the Therapy Room: Purpose-Driven Counseling explores how clinicians can ethically and effectively integrate client spirituality within evidence-based clinical practice. This session examines the role of therapist identity, purpose, and self-awareness in faith-informed counseling while maintaining professional boundaries and ethical standards. Attendees will learn practical frameworks for assessing and responding to spiritual themes without imposing beliefs or compromising clinical integrity. The presentation also addresses burnout prevention and sustainability for clinicians serving faith-oriented populations. Participants will leave with actionable tools to support holistic client care that honors both clinical competence and client values.

Trauma-Informed Care Through a Faith Lens How clinicians can support churches in responding to trauma.

This presentation explores trauma-informed care through a faith-centered lens, equipping clinicians to understand how trauma impacts individuals within church communities. Attendees will learn how evidence-based practices, including EMDR principles, can be thoughtfully integrated with spiritual sensitivity. The session highlights common gaps between clinical care and faith settings and offers practical strategies for collaboration. Clinicians will leave better prepared to support churches in fostering safe, compassionate, and trauma-responsive environments.

How to Rank Your Website on ChatGPT (and other AI Search Platforms)

People are turning to ChatGPT with their mental health questions, and when your practice surfaces in those AI conversations, they'll search for your brand to book appointments. This session reveals the practical strategies Christian counselors need to build trust and authority in AI search platforms: optimizing your Google presence, building web mentions, and creating content that positions you as the caring, trusted local resource AI platforms want to recommend. You'll learn how to adapt your digital marketing for this AI-first world while staying true to your calling, ensuring hurting people can find the help you're equipped to provide.

From Fraud to Faithful Action: A Faith-Informed ACT Approach to Imposter Thoughts for Private Practice Owners

Private practice transitions, such as pricing changes, increased visibility/marketing demands, service expansion, delegation, and leadership decisions, often intensify imposter thoughts for high-achievers like private practice owners. This experiential session normalizes the imposter phenomenon and uses guided peer dialogue and reflection to reduce isolation and help participants clarify a Christ-centered leadership stance aligned with their chosen values. Participants will learn a faith-informed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework and apply the Choice Point decision map to identify internal hooks, map their imposter loop, and recognize how imposter-driven coping undermines sustainable practice. Through practice exercises, attendees will build “unhooking” skills that integrate ACT with Christian formation practices (anchoring attention in God’s presence, relating differently to self-critical thoughts with truth and grace, and practicing willingness and humility) applied to business moments such as consult calls, setting fees, making offers, marketing visibility, and holding boundaries. Participants will leave with a one-page toolkit and a written values-based committed action plan for their current private-practice transition.

Serving High-Risk Youth in Faith-Based Settings: Ethical and Operational Considerations for Practice Owners

This session examines the ethical and operational challenges private practice owners face when serving high-risk youth within faith-based or faith-adjacent settings, where clear clinical protocols are often lacking. Participants will explore the distinction between clinical authority and spiritual responsibility in contexts involving suicide risk, crisis response, and mandatory reporting obligations. The presentation highlights common gaps in crisis preparedness that require practice owners to independently develop systems, boundaries, and decision-making frameworks. Attendees will review, how to identify clinical gaps in your community, best-practice approaches for collaboration, referral, documentation, and risk reduction that can be applied across school- and church-based environments. Practical strategies will be provided to help clinicians protect clients, families, faith-based organizations, and their practices while maintaining ethical integrity and sustainability.

The Inner Life of the Therapist: Spiritual Formation, Limits, and Resilience

Therapy shapes not only what clinicians do, but who they are becoming over time, often in ways that go unnoticed until fatigue or disconnection sets in. This session gently invites therapists to slow down and tend to their inner life, exploring how prolonged caregiving, responsibility, and exposure to suffering spiritually form us. Through experiential soul-care and spiritual formation practices, participants will be guided to notice patterns of self-reliance, blurred limits, and control that quietly contribute to burnout. Rather than focusing on fixing or performing, this workshop creates space for rest, surrender, and reorientation toward God as the true source of resilience. Attendees will leave with embodied practices and formative rhythms they can return to in both their clinical work and personal faith.

Brent Stutzman, TheraSaaS

Marcken Volmy, Bedrock Counseling

Lillianis Cruz, Hope Behavioral Health

Jaclyn Bailes, Cypress Roots Counseling

Melissa Griffing, Wellnest Counseling

Susan Doak, Newberg Counseling & Wellness

David Sanchez, Charlotte Counseling Associates

Lauren Bowman, Dwell Christian Therapy & Training

Mary Ann Green, Nurtured Soul Counseling & Wellness

Nicole Brewer, reTHINK Therapy

Wendy Failor, Compassion Cove Counseling

Joshua Brummel, Therapy Flow

Mary Kathryn Nader, Hope Counseling & Consulting

Danna Dahl, Re:Vive Counseling, Consulting, & Training

Dr. Rhonda Johnson, CCFAM