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The Wyoming Counsleling Association and Casper College Counseling services are collaborating for a spring conference experience! This year’s conference will explore how trauma impacts the nervous system and body, while highlighting evidence-based somatic, neuroscience-informed, and integrative approaches that support sustainable healing and resilience.
Professionals can:
We are officially SOLD OUT for in-person attendance. Virtual registration is still available.
Join us April 17–18 from anywhere and gain practical, applicable tools to strengthen your work.
Location: Walter H. Nolte Gateway building, Room 225
7:00am, Check In & Vendor Interaction — Check-in and networking.
7:50am, Opening Remarks — Alex Petrino & Erin Ford
8:00am, We Need Each Other: Building Community in the Counseling Profession (1 CE) — Noelle Rizzo, MSEd, PEL, LCPC
9:00am, Connection, Safety, and Scrolling (1 CE) — Bethany Cutts, MSW, LCSW & Jorja Warembourg, BSW, MSW candidate May 2026
10:00am – 11:30am, From Compassion Fatigue to Capacity: TRE® for Counselors (1.5 CE) — Jess Ryan, MS, LPC, NCC, CCTP-II, E-RYT 500
11:30am – 12:30pm, Lunch — On your own
12:30pm, Incorporating Concepts of Post-Traumatic Growth Into Clinical Practice (1 CE) — John Stinebaugh, MA, LMFT & Alex Kane, MS, LCSW
1:30pm – 3:00pm, Understanding the Embodied Impact of Trauma on Gender Nonconforming People (1.5 CE) — Elliot Orin Hinkle, BS, PSS
3:00pm – 4:00pm, Staying Ethical Under Pressure: Working with Law Enforcement and Immigration Requests (1 CE) — Amanda DeDiego, PhD, LPC, ART, NCC, BC-TMH, ACS
4:00pm, A Trauma Informed Approach to Supporting Youth Mental Health (1 CE) — Mitch Schoenwolf, RN
7:00am, Check In & Vendor Interaction — Check-in and networking
7:50am, Opening Remarks — Alex Petrino & Erin Ford
8:00am, Dis-Ease & The Three T’s: Trauma, Thoughts, and Toxins (1 CE) — Dr. Isaac Castellanos, D.C., CACCP, PAK, BS, AS
9:00am, Eight Phases, Three Prongs, Four Legs: Integrating Horses into EMDR Therapy (1 CE) — Tammy Anderson, LPC
10:00am – 11:30am, AcuRecovery as a practice-wide individual and group intervention: a case example (1.5 CE) — Sara Bursac, MSW, LCSW, Licensed Auricular Acupuncturist
11:30am – 12:30pm, Regional Networking Lunch- RSVP Required — Find your region. Find your people.
12:30pm, Suicide Risk Through a Nervous System Lens: Recognizing Physiological Warning Signs (1 CE) — Jennifer Vazqueztell, LCSW
1:30pm – 3:00pm, Trauma-Informed, Sex-Positive Approaches to Sexual Violence Recovery (1.5 CE) — Adrian James Seiloff, 2nd Year Master’s Graduate Student & Rachel Goff, 1st Year Master’s Graduate Student
3:00pm – 4:00pm, Moving Parts: Embodying the Flow of the IFS Model (1 CE) — Stephanie Hanson, MS, LPC, E-RYT
4:00pm, How Parent Communication Shapes Stress Responses and Self-Concept in ADHD Youth (1 CE) — Rebecca Kuhbacher M Ed., ADHD Coach
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