Full Conference Schedule (download PDF version)

Earn 9 Cultural Competency CEs (and an optional 3 Supervision CEs)!

ASL Interpreters will be present for each CE session.

Thursday, November 5

4pm—OACES Networking for Supervisors and Counselor Educators

5-6:30pm—“Broaching Race, Privilege, and Power in Cross-Racial Supervision” with Aja Burks, LMSW & Brittany Williams, PhD

6:30-8pm—“Supervision from the Soul: Anti-Racist Supervision” with Andrea Redeau, LPC, CADC & Julianna Vermeys, MA, LPC, LMHC, NCC

Friday, November 6

8:45am—Welcoming Address and Land Acknowledgment 

9-10:30am—“Counseling Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders with COVID-19 Related Racial Trauma: Contextualizing Historied Oppression and Strategies for Resilience” with Stacey Diane Arañez Litam, PhD, LPCC, NCC, CCMHC

10:30am-12pm—“Broaching Matters: Settling Myths and Misconceptions” with Javier F. Casado Pérez, PhD, LPC, NCC, CCTP

1-2pm—“Speed Friending: Platonic Love and Intimacy for Mental Health” Networking Event with Jia Hurd

2-3:30pm—“Real Life: Processing Racial Trauma with Black Women” 

with Ecclesia Savage, LPC, NCC, RPT & Shawntell Pace, M.Ed, MS

3:30-5pm—“Healing You While Healing Myself” 

with Esther Boykin, LMFT

5pm—ORSAIGE (formerly OALGBTIC) Networking Event

Saturday, November 7

8:45am—Welcoming Address and Land Acknowledgment 

9-10:30am—“Antiracism is Not a Trendy Bumper Sticker: From Symbolic to Authentic Allyship” with Anjabeen Ashraf, PhD, LPC, LMHC & Arien Muzacz, PhD, NCC, LPC, LMHC, ACS

10:30am-12pm—“From Couch to (Liberated) Collective Care: Praxis for Abolitionist Therapy” with Robyn Mourning, MS, MFT