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Advocacy isn’t only at the Capitol. It happens in the therapy room, the school hallway, the locker room and the systems around the people we serve.
Join the TCA Region 1 for an Advocacy Conference, a day focused on how counselors can advocate for clients, communities and each other.
This year’s sessions:
🧒 Beyond behavior: advocating for children and adolescents. When kids are understood only through their behavior, their needs get missed. Learn to challenge deficit-based labels, elevate youth voice and work with caregivers, schools and agencies to improve the systems around young clients.
🤱 Who’s taking care of mom? Maternal mental health. This session examines gaps in how maternal mental health is recognized and treated. It covers how counselors can help mothers name their needs, challenge stigma and unrealistic expectations, and build systems that respond earlier.
🔥 Sexuality as part of mental health. Many counselors hesitate to talk about intimacy and desire. This session offers practical language and a culturally responsive, trauma-informed approach to discussing sexual well-being without shame or unnecessary referral.
🫠 Burnout is a systems issue. Self-care matters, but it isn’t the whole answer. This session reframes counselor well-being as an advocacy issue and helps you decide when to cope and when to push for change in policies, workplaces and professional expectations.
🏈 Getting coachable to athletes. What if “uncoachable” says more about us than about the athlete? Drawing on Solution Focused Brief Therapy and football’s “teach tape,” this session introduces a not-knowing posture that supports athletes through curiosity and respect.
🎤 Featured panel: Counselors as Advocates: Using Our Collective Voice, with Adeli Minet Cortez, LPC-S; Dr. Katherine Bacon, LPC-S, TCA Past President; and Milton Smith, LPC-S
This event is for school counselors, clinical counselors, supervisors, counselor educators and graduate students.
📅 Saturday, September 26
📍 Woodlands Sam Houston State University
🎟️ Register: via QR code or link in bio
CE hours offered by @aspencounseling
Bring a colleague. Advocacy is stronger together.
Leadership is not only
Join the TCA Region 1 for an Advocacy Conference, a day focused on how counselors can advocate for clients, communities and each other.
This year’s sessions:
🧒 Beyond behavior: advocating for children and adolescents. When kids are understood only through their behavior, their needs get missed. Learn to challenge deficit-based labels, elevate youth voice and work with caregivers, schools and agencies to improve the systems around young clients.
🤱 Who’s taking care of mom? Maternal mental health. This session examines gaps in how maternal mental health is recognized and treated. It covers how counselors can help mothers name their needs, challenge stigma and unrealistic expectations, and build systems that respond earlier.
🔥 Sexuality as part of mental health. Many counselors hesitate to talk about intimacy and desire. This session offers practical language and a culturally responsive, trauma-informed approach to discussing sexual well-being without shame or unnecessary referral.
🫠 Burnout is a systems issue. Self-care matters, but it isn’t the whole answer. This session reframes counselor well-being as an advocacy issue and helps you decide when to cope and when to push for change in policies, workplaces and professional expectations.
🏈 Getting coachable to athletes. What if “uncoachable” says more about us than about the athlete? Drawing on Solution Focused Brief Therapy and football’s “teach tape,” this session introduces a not-knowing posture that supports athletes through curiosity and respect.
🎤 Featured panel: Counselors as Advocates: Using Our Collective Voice, with Adeli Minet Cortez, LPC-S; Dr. Katherine Bacon, LPC-S, TCA Past President; and Milton Smith, LPC-S
This event is for school counselors, clinical counselors, supervisors, counselor educators and graduate students.
📅 Saturday, September 26
📍 Woodlands Sam Houston State University
🎟️ Register: via QR code or link in bio
CE hours offered by @aspencounseling
Bring a colleague. Advocacy is stronger together.
Leadership is not only
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