Join the Utah Mental Health Counselors Association's Graduate Student & Emerging Professionals committee every Thursday from 12 - 1 to engage in community, collaboration, and connection! Make of this time what you will: studying; networking; receiving support; gaining access to resources you may find beneficial! Join for however long you can whenever you're able to, every week!
Link: https://meet.google.com/obc-bekf-snt?hs=224
How the Traditional Martial Art of Aikido Teaches Us
to Engage, Blend, and Heal in the Therapy Room
November 20, 2025; 6–8 pm /MST
Presenters:
Bradd Buckingham, MA, LPC (VA), CTP, NCC
Matthew Buckley, EdD, LPC (MS), LCMHC (UT), NCC, ACS, BC-TMHC
Professor of Counseling, Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions
Workshop Difficulty: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced
Continuing Education: Two (2) hours of continuing education credit
Workshop objectives:
1. Integrative Awareness and Presence: Participants will be able to describe how Aikido concepts such as irimi
(entering), blending, and grounding inform therapeutic presence and co-regulation, enabling clinicians to stay
centered and attuned during moments of client resistance, conflict, or emotional escalation.
2. Transforming Resistance and Energy: Participants will be able to demonstrate ways to apply Aikido principles—
specifically Kaeshi Waza (countering) and Henka Waza (adaptability)—to therapeutic encounters, reframing
resistance as energy that can be redirected into collaborative movement rather than confrontation.
3. Embodied Therapeutic Techniques and Metaphors: Participants will be able to translate martial concepts into
embodied clinical metaphors and interventions (e.g., stepping aside, redirecting energy, changing angles) that
support client insight, emotional flexibility, and the de-escalation of interpersonal tension.
Bio: Bradd Buckingham
Bradd Buckingham is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Certified Trauma Professional (CTP).
Bradd specializes in working with adults, men’s issues, teachers, first responders, and military veterans.
Bradd brings a unique skill set to his work as a counselor, including military service, over a decade of work in
the defense industry, experience working in the community as a substitute teacher, as well as a teacher/mentor for at-
risk children and adolescents. Additionally, Bradd is a lifelong student and Assistant Instructor (2nd Degree Black
Belt) in Aikido.
Bradd graduated with his Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from The University of the
Cumberlands. He also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Conflict, Politics, and National Policy from Mary Washington
University.
December 3, 2025 – December 5, 2025
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Earn up to 32.5 continuing education hours from a combination of live and recorded sessions!
Registration and conference fee information, based on your country of residence, are detailed in the Scaled Fee Structure document.
Register By December 1, 2025 11:59 PMET
NBCC and the NBCC Foundation invite you to join us during our Mental Health Connections global virtual conference.
This year will highlight education or training, practice, and research geared toward capacity-building, workforce expansion, and augmenting access to mental health care across communities worldwide.
Participants will also learn about counseling through an international and diverse lens and gain insight about counseling and mental health initiatives and movement toward counseling professionalization from speakers across the globe.
Learning Objectives:
Board members will provide updates on UMHCA initiatives and projects as well as field questions, comments, or ideas from UMHCA members. All UMHCA members, including students and professional members, active and inactive, are welcome to attend. The UMHCA Executive Committee believes it is important for members to have access to the UMHCA board and the member meetings are part of a series of initiatives to promote engagement through increased access and connection between the board and our members. We look forward to seeing you all there!
No CEs will be provided at this meeting
Link: https://usu.zoom.us/j/85946433616?pwd=mGQEati7aeasPwXIFc0MBUM7vUiCMN.1
Ethically Navigating Exposure and Response Prevention
Date and Time: December 12, 2025 8:30am to 12:30pm MST
Location: University of Utah, College of Education SAEC Building, Auditorium, SAEC 1151
Presenter: Kate Rogers, Ph.D.
Event Description: The Counseling & Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Utah College of Education is proud to sponsor a free CE Training in collaboration with OCD Anxiety Centers.
This in-person training offers 4 continuing education (CE) hours, with two being ethics CEs, specifically for professionals in CMHC, MFT, Social Work, and Psychology.
Attendees will be provided with a basic understanding of exposure therapy, how it works, who is most likely to benefit from it, as well as guidance regarding level of care decisions. Attendees will engage in an interactive workshop that includes opportunities to practice case conceptualization through an exposure lens and customized exposure design with case vignettes and feedback/guidance from the presenters.
Registration Link: https://www.ocdanxietycenters.com/erp-ce-event
Register Here
We are starting up the LPPC (Legislative and Public Policy Committee) Meetings again, starting this month, to prepare for the 2026 legislative session. This meeting is a committee meeting and will not provide CEs.
General Agenda:
1. Q & A about LPPC.
We want to answer any questions you have about the LPPC and what it would be like to get involved in this committee.
2. Discuss ideas, including bills and issues to focus on for the next legislative year.
This will be the time to bring up any issues or specific bills that you would like the LPPC to focus on.
Here are the dates for future LPPC meetings:
We look forward to collaborating with you.
Jessica Black, LPPC Chair Kristin Erskine, LPPC Co-Chair (Elect)
Don't miss our next FREE event!
️ Fri Dec 12, 2025 | 11am - 12:30pm PM ET | 1.5 CE Credits
Join the Utah Coalition of Mental Health Professions for a virtual open house. This town hall-style gathering is open to all social workers, clinical mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists in Utah to discuss challenges, share experiences, and build community. Members of NASW-Utah, UAMFT, or UMHCA will receive 1 CEU (form their respective organizations) for attending.
Legislative, financial and professional issues discussed. UMHCA's Monthly meetings are held on the second Saturday of every month with few exceptions. This meeting is open to everyone, students, the public, and the Board.
Online meeting link:
meet.google.com/ziz-mztk-iyg
Please find the YOOFOO sign on the outside of the building and go upstairs. The meeting room is on the second floor, Suite 29
Please check the minutes from the last meeting before you arrive. This will save time in getting them approved to allow for more time in our business to conduct.
With appropriate permissions, and as the agenda is finalized, you can also check that online.
Have you completed the Mandated Reporter training requirement for next year yet? Don't worry, we have just the course for you!
✅ 2 Hours Ethics
️ Weds Nov 12, 2025
️ Weds Dec 17, 2025
⏰ 7p - 9pm PM ET | 2 CE Credits
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has amended Section 413 of the Social Services Law to require training on recognizing abuse or neglect in children with intellectual or developmental disabilities. As a result, all mandated reporters are now required to complete an updated training workshop by November 17, 2026. This training meets the updated New York State standards.
Objective for the Presentation -
1 Knowledge of Narrative exam construction
2. Understanding what areas are covered on the Narrative Exam
3. Processing a structured approach for dissecting vignettes
Dr. Linton Hutchinson, LMHC, NCC, Ph.D. has a degree in Counseling Psychology and Mental Health Counseling. He has dedicated his entire career to working with students who are on the road to becoming therapists. Linton has taught every course from Principles of Counseling to Research and Assessment and has worked with medical students at St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies and taught counseling at the University of the South Pacific in the Fiji Islands. Back in the States, Linton continued his teaching at Nova Southeastern University, University of Central Florida, Troy State, and Rollins College. He was the first Regional Coordinator for Webster University where he designed and developed their Mental Health Counseling Program in Florida. For the past 22 years, he has prepared students for licensure online at CounselingExam.com and currently offers Master Classes covering the DSM-5. His passion is dream analysis and he has presented seminars worldwide on using dreams in the counseling setting.
Stacy Frost is currently the Content Curator at Licensure Exams, where she is responsible for designing educational presentations on all subjects related to the helping professions and specifically the NCMHCE Counseling Exam. Stacy comes from the medical field and is an expert on the DSM-5. She is also a Certified Coach and works with students suffering from test anxiety. Stacy helps students manage and overcome test anxiety by offering online coaching. Additionally, Stacy teaches essential skills to combat test anxiety using Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy skills offering holistic, motivational, and inspiration to help improve self-esteem and confidence.
Registration will be posted soon on TPN.health
Bridgeland Applied Technology College, Health Sciences Building
1301 North 600 West, Logan, UT
8:30 to 9:00am Registration
8:45 to 10:30 Welcome and Keynote by President (2 hours)
10:45 to 12:00pm Breakout (1.5 hours)
1:30 to 2:20pm Breakout (1 hour)
2:20 to 2:30 Break (10 minutes)
2:30 to 3:20pm Breakout (1 hour)
3:30 to 4:20pm Breakout (1 hour)
4:30 to 5:30pm DOPL Updates - Q&A (1 hour)
8:30 to 9:00 Coffee and Conversation
8:45 to 10:30 Welcome and Keynote (1.5 hours)
10:30 to 10:45 Break (15 minutes)
10:45 to 12:00pm Breakout (1 hour)
1:30 to 2:20 Breakout (1 hour)
2.20 to 2:30 Break (10 minutes)
3:20 to 3:30 Break (10 minutes)
3:30 to 4:30pm Breakout (1 hour)
3:40 to 5:00pm Conference Wrap Up
Total CEs: up to 13 CEs
This conference will be available in a hybrid format: in-person and online. Our online guests may be limited to a selected breakout room. Registration will require you to choose in-person or virtual attendance. Technical support will NOT be offered to help you with your personal online connection. It is recommended that you test your local connection and appropriate bandwidth speeds prior to the conference.
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2026 AMHCA Annual Conference
Register here Will be held in Portland Oregon
(an in-person-only event)
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