Pre-Conferences

The three hours will be divided into three supervision topics:

1. What Supervision Formats are you using in Supervision?
2. What needs to be in your supervisor/supervisee contract/agreement?
3. What is new or changing in Tennessee related to supervisor expectations?

Peter Wilson, Ed.D., has been working full-time at Trevecca for 31 years.  For many years he served as the Director of the Graduate Counseling Program and currently is a full-time professor.  He received the Master of Arts in psychology from Middle Tennessee State University and the Ed.D. in counseling psychology from Tennessee State University.  Dr. Wilson is a licensed psychologist and maintains a part-time private practice in addition to his teaching duties at Trevecca.  Prior to assuming responsibilities at Trevecca, Dr. Wilson served for two years as Clinical Director and six years as therapist at Christian Counseling Services.  He is married to Deb and together they have four children and eleven grandchildren.

Professor Chelsea Alexander is a full-time assistant professor at Trevecca Nazarene University Grad Counseling Program and practicing licensed therapist working with individuals who are justice-involved and adjusting to life outside of incarceration. She was the recipient of the 2025 Tennessee Licensed Professional Counseling Association conference of the Presidential Award for Social Justice Counseling. She also is a 2023 NBCC Minority Fellowship recipient for the work she has been involved in with the justice-involved population. She is completing her PhD in Clinical Counseling at Trevecca Nazarene University and also working on her dissertation regarding BIPOC counselors-in-training, sense of classroom community, and academic resilience.

Balm for the Bold: Thriving at the Intersection of Purpose & Well-Being

Presented by Dr. PaQuita R. Pullen, LPC-MHSP, NCC, RYT-200

Those who are called to serve, lead, disrupt, and care for others are often expected to do so at the expense of their own well-being. Balm for the Bold: Thriving at the Intersection of Purpose & Well-being is a reflective and experiential wellness session designed for professionals navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, leadership strain, and systems-level stress while doing purpose-driven work. Participants will explore the cost of chronic survival mode in helping professions, the connection between nervous system regulation and leadership capacity, rest as a protective factor against burnout and vicarious trauma, practical micro-rituals that support resilience in high-demand roles, and sustainable approaches to purpose-driven work that interrupt depletion cycles. Participants will leave with accessible, immediately applicable tools to support their personal well-being and extend wellness practices within their teams and organizations.

Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify at least three indicators of survival-based functioning in professional roles.
• Participants will be able to describe the relationship between nervous system regulation and sustainable leadership capacity.
• Participants will learn and implement at least two restorative micro practices to mitigate burnout and compassion fatigue.

Dr. PaQuita R. Pullen, LPC-MHSP/S, NCC, RYT is an innovative and quick thinker who uses her expertise and skills to better benefit others and the implementation of key wellness processes. Dr. P, as she is affectionately known, is an award winning mental health professional with over a decade of experience. She is creative in all endeavours and has a natural ability to see many different ways of getting things done. Dr. P’s zone of genius lies in empowering individuals to get busy living and leading authentic lives. She has a keen ability to speak truth and tailors her words

When Ethics Meet Emotion: Countertransference, Burnout, and the Business of Therapy

This session examines how clinicians’ emotional responses and workplace pressures influence ethical decision-making, boundaries, and quality of care. Participants will explore the impact of countertransference on clinical judgment, documentation, and practice policies, while learning practical strategies to prevent burnout and reduce professional risk. Through real-world examples and applied tools, this session equips clinicians and leaders to strengthen ethical practice, sustain well-being, and foster healthy clinic cultures.

The Role of Lifespan Integration in Healing Trauma

Presented by Stephanie Davis, LPC

This presentation will explore Lifespan Integration (LI), an internationally recognized therapeutic approach that has proven highly effective for treating trauma and dissociative disorders. LI therapy enables clients to integrate fragmented memories and develop a cohesive sense of self, ultimately leading to deeper emotional resilience and more stable functioning. The unique benefits of LI’s Timeline methodology will be highlighted including its role in repairing the neural connections disrupted by trauma. By anchoring traumatic memories in the broader context of the client’s life, LI allows for enhanced neural integration, reduced fragmentation, increased resilience and emotional stability and accessible and compassionate reprocessing.

Objectives:

• Identify and describe the foundational principles of Lifespan Integration therapy, including Complex Systems Theory, memory reconsolidation, therapist attunement, and the application of LI protocols for trauma integration and attachment repair.
• Gain a comprehension of Lifespan Integration’s principal tool, the Timeline, and its foundational rationale, functioning as an instrument designed to help the brain process and access trauma memories in a healthy way. Further, learners will develop a deeper understanding concerning the use of active imagination in LI therapy.
• Describe frequently observed clinical findings in Lifespan Integration therapy and outline next steps for continued training, clinical implementation, consultation or supervision and and ongoing professional growth.

Stephanie Davis is a Nationally Certified Licensed Professional Counselor working in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with her MA in Counseling in 2013. She specializes in grief, women’s issues, and trauma. She is a US based Lifespan Integration Instructor, Consultant and Certified Therapist.

Skillful and Sustainable Leadership in Changing Times: Advocating for Self, Community, and Clients

Presented by Shelly Erdman, Aimee Isenberg, Susan Lahey, April Lamoreaux

Professional counselors often serve as supervisors, managers, educators, mentors, and advocates. Skills related to leadership and advocation serve multiple benefits including longevity in the profession. Servant leadership (Greenleaf, 2002), specifically, was found useful with organizational leadership within the counseling profession (Prasath, et al, 2021). This presentation will emphasize the various leadership types including development of strategic planning in the work environment. The session will also dissect the current trends related to AI and technology (Li et al., 2026). A focus on advocacy efforts, whether at the legislative level or within specific counseling organizations, will occur. Finally, mentorship will be explored especially as a way to further leadership efforts in the profession.

References

• Greenleaf, R. K. (2002). Servant leadership. Paulist Press.
• Grunhaus, C. M., Ward, T. J., Tuazon, V. E., & James, K. (2023). The impact of supervisor servant leadership on counselor supervisee burnout and secondary traumatic stress.
• Teaching and Supervision in Counseling, 5(1), 1-12. https://voljournals.utk.edu/tsc/vol5/iss1/1/ Li, B., Paracha, S., Liminiou, M., & Zhang, X. (2026). Investigating the use of AI in psychological counseling: systematic review.
• Mental Health and Digital Technologies, 3(1), 3-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/MHDT-04-2025-0027 Prasath, P.R., S., & Duffey, T.L. (2021). Counselors as organizational leaders: Exploring parallels of servant leadership and professional counseling.
• Journal of Counselor Leadership and Advocacy, 8(2), 146-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/2326716X.2021.1904460

Objectives:

• Participants will identify current trends through discussions related to the use of AI and technology in both leadership and clinical settings
• Participants will evaluate leadership roles within the workplace including methods to prolong a counseling career
• Participants will develop skills related to mentoring the new generation of leaders in the profession, including advocacy and strategic planning

Shelly Erdman, LPC/MHSP is a National Certified Counselor, board-certified telemental health provider, board-certified betrayal trauma specialist, and the owner of Keyring Counseling PLLC in Brentwood, TN. Shelly is a member of the 2025-2026 Association for Counselor Education and Supervision research committee and was the 2024-2025 doctoral student intern for the American Association of State Counseling Boards. She is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Counseling: Teaching and Supervision at Trevecca Nazarene University.

Dr. Aimee Isenberg has 19 years of experience in the counseling field. She is an LPC-MHSP in Tennessee and an approved licensure supervisor. Aimee is an associate professor in Trevecca Nazarene University’s Graduate Counseling Program and maintains a part-time private practice. Aimee holds a PhD in Clinical Counseling: Education & Supervision and teaches courses in Lifespan Development, Theories of Counseling & Psychotherapy, Effective Treatments, Technology & Teaching Strategies, and Dissertation Proposal as well as Internship. In her free time, Aimee enjoys time with her husband and two sons.

Susan Lahey, PhD is the Director of Graduate Counseling Trevecca Nazarene University, where she has served as full-time faculty since 2007 and director since 2017. Dr. Lahey has also trained supervisors for many years through the TLPCA and AAMFT organizations. She is a licensed marital and family therapist with a private practice. Dr. Lahey is committed to the mentoring and development of counselors, supervisors, and educators. In her work as dissertation chair over the last 16 years, her desire to serve her students’ pursuit of their professional identity has only deepened. Dr. Lahey’s research interests involve, but are not limited to, clinical supervision, counselor educator training, marital crisis, family cohesion, and leadership skills.

April L. Lamoreaux graduated from Cincinnati Christian University with a Bachelor of Science in Bible and Psychology and a Master of Arts in Counseling. April has worked in the mental health field for the past fourteen years training counselors as an adjunct professor, clinical director, supervisor and consultant. She is a licensed counselor in Ohio (LPCC-S) and Tennessee (LPC-MHSP). April is currently the Practicum and Internship Coordinator for Trevecca Nazarene University’s Graduate Counseling program where she is also pursuing a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision. She is also the Public Policy Co-chair for Tennessee Licensed Professional Counseling Association, the PhD representative for Theta Nu Upsilon (the Chi Sigma Iota chapter for Trevecca Nazarene University) and a member of the American Counseling Association