Join us for a Lunch & Learn (noon-1pm) virtually for 1 FREE NBCC clock hour of Continuing Education! No Registration required. Questions? Contact Amy Estes at ContinuingEd@richmont.edu.

Building a Foundation for Private Practice

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 / 12-1 PM Eastern / 1 CE available

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This Lunch and Learn session will provide an introductory roadmap for graduate students and alumni who are interested in private practice. We’ll explore the foundational steps involved in setting up your own practice, from essential legal and financial considerations to initial marketing strategies. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of what it takes to transform their professional skills into an entrepreneurial venture.

Presenter: Camille McDaniel, LPC

Presenter Bio: Camille McDaniel, LPC became a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Georgia in 2007. Demonstrating her entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to expanding access to care, she opened her private practice, Healing Psychotherapy Practices of Georgia, LLC in 2010, and through hard work, grace, and mercy she built it into the thriving group practice it is today.

Camille has over 20 years of experience helping individuals and families overcome social and mental health challenges. Her passion is to educate and empower those struggling through life and to provide compassionate and effective care, tailored to each individual’s needs. She believes that everyone deserves the opportunity to heal and lead a life that reflects their God-given gifts.

Learning Objective(s): To identify at least three essential foundational elements required to establish a sustainable and growing private practice.

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Crash Course in AEDP

Monday, September 29, 2035 / 12-1 PM Eastern / 1 CE available

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Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) is an attachment-based, emotion-focused approach that helps clients heal by processing core emotions in the safety of a deeply attuned relationship. Rather than focusing on pathology, AEDP harnesses the mind’s innate “transformance drive” toward growth and recovery. Through moment-to-moment tracking of emotional and bodily experience, therapists guide clients from defenses and anxiety into core emotions, and onward to states of clarity, self-compassion, and connection. The process of “undoing aloneness” — meeting emotions together instead of in isolation — is central to its transformative power. AEDP integrates neuroscience, attachment theory, and experiential methods to foster rapid, lasting change.

Presenter: Hope Tuttle ’24, APC

Presenter Bio: Hope is a trauma-informed therapist drawing from neuroscience, attachment theory, emotional biology, and family systems to inform her therapeutic work. She specializes in working with attachment/complex trauma, LGBTQIA+ issues, and religious trauma/deconstruction.

Learning Objective: Participants will understand how AEDP builds relational safety and facilitates emotional processing that leads to transformational change.

Insomnia: Diagnosis or Symptom?

Monday, October 13, 2025 / 12-1 PM Eastern / 1 CE available

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This Lunch and Learn session will address understanding diagnostic criteria and therapy decisions in insomnia.

Presenter: Avinesh Bhar, MD, MBA

Presenter Bio: Dr. Avi Bhar is a graduate of the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the Executive MBA Program at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago. He completed his residency in internal medicine at New York Med Centre of Queens and fellowships in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine and Sleep Medicine at University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Washington University in St. Louis, respectively. He spent three years as Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at Mercer University. He is the founding physician at Sliiip: Virtual Sleep and Pulmonary Telemedicine in Macon, GA. Dr. Bhar is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Sleep Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Pulmonary Medicine.

Learning Objective: To be able to differentiate, assess, and treat insomnia.