Counseling Training Events | Continuing Education

Events and Training

The Counseling Center at Tree City partners with professional organizations and providers to host and highlight training events and continuing education opportunities. Workshops and trainings are facilitated by leading professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, counselor educators, lecturers, and authors in the mental health community.

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Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Training Program

April 9-11 Level 1

15 HR CE The Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) Training Program offers two 15‑hour certification levels designed for licensed and pre‑licensed mental health professionals seeking to integrate spirituality, religion, and meaning into clinical practice. Level 1 provides foundational training in ethics, spiritual conversations, assessment, and core spiritual interventions. Level 2 advances these skills through deeper work with spiritual resources and struggles, harmful or restrictive religious experiences, therapist self‑reflection, and spiritually informed case conceptualization.

Misapplying the Nuclear Family Model

March 27

6 HR CE. full‑day, IDOPL‑approved ethics course that equips clinicians to recognize the unique dynamics of stepfamilies and two‑home systems. Participants learn to avoid the ethical risks that arise when “counselors apply nuclear family frameworks to stepfamily systems,” including misdiagnosis, boundary confusion, and unintentional harm. The training also addresses ethical and legal boundaries across households, loyalty‑based conflict patterns, and suicide risk indicators specific to children of divorce and their co‑parenting or step-parenting adults.

Stephanie Sterns

Full Time Opportunities!

The Counseling Center is expanding and looking for in person full time LPC, LCPC, LAMFT, LMFT clinicians.

Past Training and Events

Building Bridges

Family Relationships and How to Help: Dealing With Suicide

2025-05-23 Building Bridges Suicide

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1st Annual Gala & Live Auction

An Evening Under the Stars

Building Bridges – When Hurt Happens – Boundaries in Church Family Relationships

When: 21 Feb 2025 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Location: Tree City Church

Season’s Greetings from the Counseling Center

2024 Christmas Newsletter

Read about the Guardian Angel Program, take a moment to get to know our counseling team, and learn how you can make a difference.

2024 Christmas Letter

Building Bridges

Connecting Pastors with Professional Counselors

An opportunity for pastor and counselors to make connections, have discussions, ask questions and get answers.

Marriage and Family: God’s Design

Book Publication

Marriage and Family: God’s Design is a 28-chapter marriage and family counseling textbook designed around CACREP principles and written from a decidedly biblical worldview. The editors are Dr. TeShaunda Hannor-Walker, Dr. Lynn Bohecker, and Dr. John King, and includes contributions from multiple authors from multiple educational institutions. The book is organized into five different parts: Foundation and History; Role of Counselors; Counseling Theories, Assessments, and Genograms; Changes in 21st Century Families; Cultural Issues in Marriage and Family Counseling; and Foundation and History. This book is ideally suited for graduate-level counseling and pastoral training programs that desire to teach marriage and family counseling courses from a decidedly Christian perspective.

2024 Pathways to Hope Conference

This year, NAMI Idaho is partnering with the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA) of Idaho to bring a spectacular educational experience to Idahoans. Attendees will engage with various topics concerning mental health and faith.

Learn More and Register