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FROM THE PRESIDENT

The accomplishments of 2024 have set a strong foundation for the future. As we look to 2025, please stay engaged in our membership community, keep looking up to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and continue to grow in loving God and serving others.

l Professional Counseling 2.0 Courses: These three-hour continuing education courses are de signed for mental health professionals seeking to deepen their expertise and enhance their clinical skills. These new options include: s Neurobiology of Attachment 2.0 s Imposter Syndrome 2.0 s Family Grief 2.0 s Emotional Eating 2.0 s Ethical Integration of Faith and Spirituality in Clinical Practice 2.0 s Moral Injury 2.0 s Compulsive and Addictive Sexual Behavior 2.0 s Adverse Childhood Experiences 2.0 s Cyberpsychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Mental Healthcare Mini Course To learn more, visit LightUniversity.com today to continue your learning journey and take advantage of these clinically excellent and biblically-based courses. Each program is designed to equip you with the knowl edge, skills, and faith-integrated approaches needed to make a meaningful impact in your field. Take advantage of this opportunity to grow both professionally and spiri tually as you help others find hope and healing. Launch of the AACC 2025 “United” World Conference We are excited to announce the launch of our landmark AACC 2025 “United” World Conference on September 23-27 at the magnificent Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Ten nessee. As the world’s premier Christian counseling event, the AACC World Conference features 18 plenaries, sev en clinical mental health learning institute intensives, 50 pre-conference workshops, 175 professional work shops, and 200+ exhibitors and sponsors. Do not miss your chance to hear from leading mental health and min istry leaders like Gary Chapman, Ph.D., Daniel Amen, M.D., Lysa TerKeurst, Tim Timberlake, Bob Goff, Curt Thompson, M.D., John Townsend, Ph.D., and more to be announced soon! Breaking News! Chris Tomlin is set to perform live in concert. TIME magazine heralded Chris Tomlin as the “most often sung artist in the world” as his music has inspired and uplifted an entire generation of believ ers. Along the way, Chris scored 21 number-one singles, 30 top-10 hits (more than any other Christian artist), and spent 157 weeks at number one during his career. Chris is also the first Christian artist to reach the billion streams threshold on Pandora.

More than 2,000 people have already registered to join us, far outpacing the 2023 World Conference, which sold out early! This event has sold out 10 times in a row, and a sell-out crowd of over 7,000 is expected in 2025! Don’t miss this one… register now to enjoy the best sav ings we have to offer. Click here to register now. To stay onsite at the Opryland Hotel, call 877-491-7397 . The Opryland is already nearly 50% filled… so get in now! I am looking forward to seeing you in Nashville next September. Looking to 2025 The accomplishments of 2024 have set a strong founda tion for the future. As we look to 2025, please stay engaged in our membership community, keep looking up to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, and continue to grow in loving God and serving others. We look forward to you joining us and taking advantage of the various opportu nities AACC offers. Thank you for your dedication, hard work, and un wavering commitment to serving those in need through Christian counseling and coaching. Together, we can and will continue to stand strong together, united in our ef forts to bring hope to a broken and hurting world in need of Jesus. We love being a part of your life! ;

Tim Clinton, Ed.D., LPC, LMFT, BCP CC, is president of AACC, the world’s largest and most diverse Christian counseling association. He is also Exec utive Director of the Global Center for Mental Health, Addiction, and Recovery and Professor Emeritus at Liberty Uni versity. Dr. Clinton served as co-host of Dr. James Dobson’s Family Talk, heard on more than 1,400 radio outlets dai ly, and now hosts a weekend television program, The Road Forward, seen on Real America’s Voice News streaming service and numerous platforms. He and his son, Zach, launched a new daily meditative prayer podcast on pray.com for mental health and relationships. Dr. Clinton has been married for 43 years to his wife, Julie, and they have two chil dren and two granddaughters.

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