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.
Fit to be Tied: How to Do Pre-marital Counseling with Engaged Clients
Thursday, October 9, 2025 / 12-1 PM Eastern / 1 CE Available
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Pre-marital counseling is a fun and impactful process for a therapist. Most therapists don’t have a system to offer it to young couples. In this presentation, therapists will learn the practical methods and tools to do pre-marital education.
Presenter: Tim Bouman, LPC
Presenter Bio: Tim Bouman has been in private practice at The Atlanta Center for Marriages for 20 years specializing in couple’s therapy. Previously he was the director of the pre-marital counseling ministry at Buckhead Church. Tim will discuss his years of experience in this presentation on how to offer pre-marital counseling. Tim and his wife have been married for 29 years and live in Woodstock, GA.
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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.
Introduction to Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Attachment at the Heart of Healing
Monday, October 20, 2025 / 12-1 PM Eastern / 1 CE available
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Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based approach to counseling that helps individuals, couples, and families strengthen emotional bonds and create secure relationships. Rooted in attachment theory, EFT focuses on identifying and reshaping negative patterns of interaction and the underlying emotions that drive them. This approach emphasizes the importance of emotional safety and connection as key to healing and growth. In this presentation, students will gain an introductory understanding of EFT’s goals, core concepts, and how it can be applied in a therapeutic setting.
Presenter: Emma Rowell, AMFT, APC
Presenter Bio: Emma Rowell is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT), and Associate Professional Counselor (APC) licensed in Georgia. She earned a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from Richmont Graduate University. She currently practices at the Richmont Trauma Center, where she works with individuals, couples, and families. Emma has completed the Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) Externship and Core Skills training under EFT Trainer Dr. James Furrow, grounding her work in attachment-based, experiential therapy. Emma is also trained in Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Levels 1 and 2 under EFT trainer Gail Palmer, equipping her to support families in fostering secure, resilient relationships. Her clinical approach is empathetic, collaborative, and holistic, shaped by her experience working with individuals, couples, and families navigating issues such as anxiety/depression, trauma, and relational distress.
Learning Objective: Participants will be able to describe what Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is, and explain why it focuses on emotions and attachment in relationships.
Richmont Graduate University has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4534. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Richmont Graduate University is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
