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oped to help mental health professionals and ministry lead ers identify and assess the impact of these unconventional spiritual practices on mental health. This session will explore how these influences manifest, introduce the assessment tool, and provide an evidence-based, biblically integrated treatment model to address these challenges and guide will ing Christian clients toward healing and restoration. Learning Objectives 1. Analyze the impact of unconventional spiritual practices, such as the occult and paganism, on mental health, high lighting the factors that are often overlooked in traditional counseling settings. 2. Assess and classify clients’ experiences with diverse spiri tual practices and utilize the “Other Influences Assessment” to identify unexplained challenges. 3. Compare and contrast evidence-based treatment strate gies with a biblically integrated therapeutic model, applying these approaches to address unconventional spiritual prac tices in clinical settings with willing Christian clients. 612. Holy Secure: The 7 S’s of Secure Attachment 1.25 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: ASWB, NBCC, IBCC, Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling Level: Beginner David Steele, M.S. Ten Ten Life Summary A debate has arisen among licensed mental health profes sionals between the focus on interconnectedness in Bowlby’s Attachment Theory and the individuality and self-reliance emphasized in Bowen’s concept of differentiation. In this workshop, licensed mental health professionals and minis try leaders will evaluate the use of Dan Siegel’s four S’s (Safe, Seen, Soothed, Secure) to offer an expanded model of secure attachment across the lifespan, introducing seven S-words (Seen, Soothed, Safe, Synergy, Significance, Summoning, Sending) to illustrate a “middle way” that promotes both se cure interpersonal attachment and healthy individuation. Par ticipants will be able to define the 7 S’s and explain why each is necessary to experience securely attached relationships while also describing the three sources of secure relational attach ment: God, Self, and Others. Additionally, participants will identify key biblical passages and major themes to incorporate biblical material into the 7 S’s framework, enriching clinical interventions with spiritual insight for willing Christian clients. Stephanie Christensen, M.S. New Story Behavioral Health

Learning Objectives 1. Define the seven S’s (Seen, Soothed, Safe, Synergy, Sig nificance, Summoning, Sending) and explain why each is essential for securely attached relationships across the lifespan. 2. Describe the three sources of secure relational attach ment—God, Self, and Others—and understand how the 7 S’s manifest within these relationships throughout life. 3. Identify key biblical passages and major themes to incor porate biblical material into the 7 S’s framework, enriching clinical interventions with spiritual insight and enhancing therapeutic outcomes with willing Christian clients. 613. When Thoughts and Feelings Collide: Breaking the Cycle of Agreement with the Enemy 1.25 credit hours Continuing Education Accreditations applicable to this workshop: IBCC Level: Beginner Summary Oftentimes, mental health coaches do not know where to start with a client, especially when the client is overwhelmed with thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. This workshop will explain how thoughts are the ideas in people’s minds, while feelings are emotional responses to those thoughts and experiences in daily life. These thoughts can contain lies, which often start as whispers during vulnerable mo ments. Thoughts and feelings work together to form a cli ent’s internal narrative, often distorted by unhealed pain and disappointments. Instead of surrendering these wounds to God and allowing Him to heal them, clients may make silent covenants with negative patterns and believe lies over the truth given in God’s Word. This is where Christian mental health coaches can be a vital resource to direct clients to uti lize these negative, and sometimes positive, feelings to drive them to God’s Word, interrupting negative patterns with truth. Participants will learn practical steps to help clients that involve exposing lies, tracing them to wounds, breaking agreements, and replacing them with truth. Learning Objectives 1. Identify the pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behavior in a client’s daily life. 2. Describe how these patterns create an internal narrative that can contain lies that keep clients stuck in negative life patterns. 3. Outline how a client can gain freedom in their life through exposing lies, tracing them to wounds, breaking agreements, and replacing negative thoughts with truth. Keisha Wright, BCMHC Emotional Recovery Clinic

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