New Seasons Counseling, Training & Consulting LLC

07/20/2026

This is week 9 of my "Fifteen lessons from 15 years" series.
Today's message is simple:
Don't resent your underground seasons! Those are foundational times...and not just for you!

07/20/2026

To my colleagues and associates in the mental health professions: we need this. Please consider joining Dr. Norma Day-Vines, David Archer, Dr. S. Kent Butler, Dr. Portia Lockett, and me, because the Weight of the Work is heavy, and if a change is gonna come, it has to begin with us. Registration for these 15 CE hours is just $175 through Tuesday, July 21st.

Want the deets: https://www.newseasons.training/event-details/15-ce-hrs-for-175-215-after-july-21

07/17/2026

CE Hours on topics counselors don't often get to talk about:
- Complex Racial Trauma and Revolutionary Joy
- The Weight of Forced-Fit Care: Building the Inclusive Alternative
- When Doing the Right Thing Isn’t Clear (1.5 Ethics Hours)
- Helping Clients Exhausted by Society
- Healing the Inner Critic: Clinician Shame & Self-Doubt in Practice
- When Helping Feels Heavy
- The Meaning Behind the Behavior
- Permission to Grieve While Standing Guard
- When the Work Mirrors Your Story
- Fear of Causing Cultural Harm and Race Ruptures (1.5 Ethics Hrs)
- Burnout or Moral Injury?
- Ethics in Spiritual, Religious & Faith-Based Counseling (2 Ethics Hrs)
-And more!

By well-known speakers that counselors don't often get to talk with:

- David Archer, MSW, MFT (Author of Anti-Racist Psychotherapy)
- Dr. Norma Day Vines (Author of Broaching Race, Ethnicity & Culture in the Counseling Process)
- Dr. S. Kent Butler (Co-Author of Mental Health & The Black Man)
- Dr. Portia Lockett (Co-author in Delayed But Not Denied: Stories About Hope, Faith & Triumph)
- Dr. LaVerne Hanes Collins (Author of Overlooked: Counselor Insights for the Unspoken Issues In Black American Life)

Other featured speakers: Stephanie Herbert, LPC; Tracie Porter, LPC; Adrian Sago, LPC, CPCS; Elizabeth Santiago, LCPC, NCC; Victoria Suazo, LPC; and Rayvene Whatley, LPC, CPCS

Three-Day LIVE Virtual Event
Early Bird Registration: $175 ($215 after July 21)
Early Bird VIP Registration: $275 ($315 after July 21)
One- and two-day rates are also available

Together, we will explore the emotional, cultural, and ethical realities of service-centered work, while creating space for resilience, restoration, and deeper clarity in our clinical decision-making.

Because those who carry so much for others deserve a supportive space, too.

07/15/2026