2025 Conference
October 30-31, 2025
The 2025 RTS Conference on Christian Counseling will be held on the campus of Reformed Theological Seminary at 4268 I-55 North, Jackson, MS 39211. For conference information, email rtaylor@rts.edu or call 601-923-1633.
Conference registration is now closed.
Thursday, October 30
7:45 am – Sign-In / Continental Breakfast / Visit Exhibitors
8:15 am – Opening Welcome
8:30 am – 12:00 pm – Dr. Bill Richardson
Internal Family Systems Therapy: An Experiential Workshop and an Ethical Overview
Includes 3 1-hr sessions
(Ethics: LPC and LMFT – 1 hr (3rd hr)) with 15-min breaks
12:05 pm – Lunch
1:15 pm – Dr. Katie Majeste
Trauma-Informed Approaches to ADHD: Exploring EMDR G-TEP and Beyond
Includes a 1.5-hr session
2:45 pm – Break
3:00 pm – Dr. Michael Hillerman
Catching the Bullet with Empathic Conjecture: Deepening Emotional Connection in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples
Includes a 1.5-hr session
4:30 pm – Announcements and Adjourn
Friday, October 31
7:45 am – Sign-In / Continental Breakfast / Visit Exhibitors
8:15 am – Opening Welcome
8:30 am – 12:00 pm – Dr. Michell Temple
Intercultural Counseling to Promote Resilience and Trauma Recovery (Part 1)
Includes 3 1-hr sessions
(Ethics: LPC – 3 hrs; LMFT – 1 hr (1st hr)) with 15-min breaks
12:05 pm – Lunch
1:15 pm – 4:45 pm – Dr. Michell Temple
Intercultural Counseling to Promote Resilience and Trauma Recovery (Part 2)
Includes 3 1-hr sessions with 15-min breaks
4:45 pm – Announcements and Adjourn
About the Conference
The Counseling program at RTS has hosted the Conference on Christian Counseling for over 12 years. The RTS Conference on Christian Counseling engages with and explores frontiers in counseling from a Christian perspective in a format that allows counselors in the field to receive Continuing Education credits. Our conference is designed to expose current counseling students to these frontiers, to invite graduates to visit RTS again while receiving CE credits, and to offer CE credits to other counseling professionals throughout the state.
Conference speakers are leaders in the field speaking in areas of their expertise. This has become known around the state as one of the best professional conferences for counselors in our region. In addition to this biennial conference, we occasionally hold shorter workshops on special topics of interest.
Reformed Theological Seminary, Master of Arts in Counseling (MAC) Program has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4539. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Reformed Theological Seminary, Master of Arts in Counseling (MAC) Program is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
The conference will offer 8 general and 4 ethics continuing education hours for Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC).
The program has also been approved by the Mississippi Board of Examiners for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT), Approved Application No. 25.21, to offer 10 general and 2 ethics continuing education hours. Please see the session details for hour-designation by workshop.
Past Speakers
Some of the keynote speakers we have hosted over the years include:
Heather Davediuk Gingrich, Ph.D.: Restoring the Shattered Self: The Treatment of Complex Trauma
Curt Thompson, M.D.: A Beautiful Mind: The Gospel in the Language of Neuroscience
Daniel Sweeney, Ph.D., LMFT, LPC, RPT-S: The Neurobiology of Childhood Trauma and Expressive Therapies
Diane Langberg, Ph.D.: Counseling Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma
Mark Laaser, Ph.D.: Treatment of Sexual Addiction
Sharon Hersh, MA, LPC: Beyond Addiction – Why Self-Help is Not Enough
Mark Yarhouse, Psy.D.: Sexual Identity Therapy Framework
Listen to Past Conferences
2017
Dr. Caroline Neumann, Introduction to the Treatment of Eating Disordersand Leigh Hurley, IPhones, Social Media, and the Family
2016
Dr. Bill Richardson, Ethical Issues in Multicultural Counseling with Couplesand Dr. Jim Hurley, Forgiveness
2014
Dr. Bill Richardson, Contemporary Ethical Issues in Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling;Dr. Jim Hurley, Side by Side by Side;and Dr. Diane Langberg, Counseling Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma
2011
Dr. John Cox, Marriage