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will identify the common sources of personal and marital disempowerment and how self-care and personal responsi bility serve as the foundation for personal and marital em powerment. Additionally, participants will be equipped to use the Focus Marital Therapy self-care tool, the Care Cycle, as an effective intervention in both marital and individual counseling, fostering healthier relationships and personal well-being. Learning Objectives 1. Analyze a framework that helps married individuals be come whole, healthy, and aligned with the client’s purpose, setting them on a path to a fulfilling and thriving marriage. 2. Assess how to help clients integrate faith-based principles for personal health and wholeness, balancing individual growth with relationship needs. 3. Apply the Focus Marital Therapy self-care tool, the Care Cycle, as an effective intervention in both marital and indi vidual counseling, fostering healthier relationships and per sonal well-being. 508. Gender Dysphoria: Five Truths and Five Lies 1.25 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: IBCC Level: Beginner

these core needs in healthy ways by redirecting their child’s thinking, emotions, and decision-making to address the root issues behind gender dysphoria. Learning Objectives 1. Analyze how unmet core needs for security, identity, be longing, purpose, and competence contribute to gender dys phoria and the development of false beliefs. 2. Recognize how technology reinforces five key lies that contribute to confusion and distortion of identity in young people questioning their gender. 3. Apply strategies to use with parents to help their child meet their unmet needs through thought processes and decision-making by distinguishing tools, questions, and con versation starters to address the root issues behind gender dysphoria. 509. Vulnerable Connection: Addressing Attachment Significance in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy 1.25 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: APA, ASWB, NBCC, IBCC, Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling Level: Intermediate W. Jesse Gill, Psy.D. Psychological Health Affiliates Summary Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) is a clinically effective approach that helps couples beyond defensive be haviors and expresses the vulnerable attachment needs of each individual. By targeting the root of marital conflict—un met attachment needs—EFCT reframes hurt as a longing for connection and value, which softens partners’ defenses and fosters emotional closeness. This presentation is designed for psychologists, licensed mental health professionals, pas tors, and coaches seeking to deepen couples’ intimacy and communication. Participants will analyze the principles of Attachment Theory to understand how attachment signifi cance influences a couple’s dynamics and how unfulfilled at tachment needs fuel conflict. In a group setting, participants will apply emotionally focused methods to uncover deeper meanings of attachment in conflict scenarios. Additionally, participants will identify the essential elements of effective enactments, which are carefully staged interventions that in vite couples to communicate vulnerability. This session will provide opportunities to observe and practice staging these enactments and how to develop interventions that help re build connections and foster lasting intimacy. Learning Objectives 1. Analyze the principles of Attachment Theory to under stand how unmet attachment needs drive conflict in couples and influence relational dynamics, fostering a deeper under standing of attachment significance.

Kathy Koch, Ph.D. Celebrate Kids, Inc.

Michelle Nietert, M.A. Community Counseling Associates

Summary Many faith-based parents are unsure of what to think or do when their child begins to question their gender. For some children, adolescents, and younger adults struggling with identity and gender confusion, a key theme that has emerged from their stories is their need for security, identity, belong ing, purpose, and competence. When these legitimate needs are met through unhealthy means, they can lead to counter feit solutions that fail to bring lasting satisfaction, resulting in confusion, anger, and even the belief that changing their gender will resolve these struggles. This workshop will focus on how to help faith-based parents understand their chil dren questioning their gender and how they can help them during this struggle. In this workshop, ministry leaders will analyze the connection between these unmet core needs and false beliefs, especially as they relate to young people questioning their gender. Participants will recognize how technology can contribute to this confusion through rein forcement of five key lies and will identify new questions and conversation starters for parents based on five core needs. Participants will learn tools to help parents focus on meeting

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