Dr. Julie Radico will define coaching and discuss what populations might benefit from coaching. She will explore several ways coaching differs from therapy and review several business and ethical considerations for psychologists who coach.

Dr. Jessica Lewis will define religious and spiritual (R/S) coping, describe how to assess for R/S coping beliefs, and demonstrate how spiritual-based forms of coping tools can aid clients in processing and healing from their trauma in clinical settings through an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) framework.

Couples come into therapy to address challenges and conflicts in their relationships. Underlying these challenges and conflicts, deficits in emotion regulation capacities are often present. For many couples, engaging in the day to day navigation of couple life becomes painful and distressing in part due to struggles to regulate overwhelming and intolerable emotions that interfere with their ability to work through and resolve conflicts. These are more exaggerated and severe for trauma impacted couples. Developmental Couple Therapy for Complex Trauma (DCTCT) is an evidence based approach to couple therapy for trauma impacted couples that places emphasis on the development of emotion regulation capacities as one avenue for the resolution of relationship distress. Participation in this workshop participants will have the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the role of emotion regulation difficulties in the development and maintenance of couple distress and how focus on building emotion regulation capacities can help couples benefit from the therapeutic process and grow into a couple that can engage in the normal challenges and conflicts of daily relational life with flexibility, creativity, and resilience.