The Lineup

Closing Keynote Speaker: The Threads of Connection & Growth for TheraMamas

This interactive presentation guides therapist moms through the essential elements of achieving balance in their roles by addressing the complex interplay between professional and personal responsibilities. Participants will explore topics such as navigating guilt and shame, setting boundaries, cultivating self-compassion, and implementing evidence-based self-care practices. Through guided discussions, reflective activities, and practical strategies, attendees will gain tools to improve perseverance, enhance their well-being, and improve their professional and personal effectiveness. This presentation aligns with psychological theory and evidence-based practices, offering actionable insights to empower therapist moms, and the clients they serve, to achieve work-life harmony.

Keynote Speaker: Mama Gotta Have a Life Too: Reclaiming Pleasure and Self-Love for Therapist Moms

Let’s have a real conversation—therapists are out here saving everybody but themselves. We tell clients to set boundaries, prioritize self-care, and find balance, yet we’re running on fumes, overbooked, and disconnected from our own needs. And burnout is not just exhaustion—it’s the slow erosion of your effectiveness, your clinical judgment, and your passion for the work. If we don’t take care of ourselves, we’re not just hurting—we’re hurting our clients too. This keynote is a call to action. It’s time to stop preaching self-care and start practicing it, to recognize that pleasure, rest, and self-advocacy aren’t luxuries—they’re essential for your well-being, your career and your ability to serve effectively.

The Odyssey Approach: A Solution for Provider Burnout and Client Dropout

This workshop addresses the rising rates of provider burnout and client dropout by exploring a collection of evidence-based interventions, drawn from diverse cultural perspectives. The Odyssey Approach integrates cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, and humanistic interventions, each of which has demonstrated effectiveness in various clinical contexts. It also includes evidence-based techniques from Pasifika, African, and Native American healing traditions, emphasizing intentional visualizations, narrative strategies, and the restorative art of human connection. By blending these empirically-supported interventions, this model seeks to improve client rapport, foster meaning-making, and bridge the gap between Western medical models and culturally responsive care. Attendees will explore the core components of this integrative approach and experience practical applications of the interventions in action.

The Inner Compass: Integrating Hormonal Awareness to Support Mental Wellness

This session explores the often overlooked intersection between female hormonal transitions and mental health. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of how fluctuations in estrogen and progesterone impact mood, cognition, and emotional regulation across the menstrual cycle, perimenopause, and menopause. Drawing from current neuroscience, lifestyle psychiatry, and integrative approaches, this talk equips mental health professionals with knowledge and tools to better understand and support their clients through these transitions.

Be the CEO of Your Life and Business

This presentation is designed to support individuals, especially entrepreneurs and professionals, in taking committed actions to enhance both their business and personal lives by adopting a CEO mindset. By embracing the role of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of your own life and business, you can intentionally align your values, actions, and choices to create meaningful success and fulfillment. Through this process, you will develop skills such as self-leadership, establishing healthy boundaries, managing time effectively, setting a clear vision and goals, making informed decisions while managing risks, building resilience, and adapting to challenges. We will also explore practices that promote self-care, emotional intelligence, and a growth mindset, empowering you to remain connected to your values and goals, even in the face of uncertainty.

From Emotional Exhaustion to Empowerment: A Mom’s Guide to Healthy Relationships

In this workshop designed specifically for Mamas, we’ll explore how attachment science shapes the way we approach our most special relationships. We’ll discuss the science of attachment as we learn why feeling seen in our relationships is essential to our well-being in order to help guide clients. We’ll explore the mental health consequences of unmet needs – like stress, mood swings, emotional exhaustion, and burnout. We’ll also delve into why asking for what we need feels so hard for so many clients and ourselves as well. Using an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) framework of attachment, we’ll discover how our triggers, emotions, and attachment histories influence interactions and contribute to unhealthy relationship patterns.

The Silent Struggle: Releasing the Mental Load

Implications for client care are clear when it comes to therapist burnout. The mental load is the silent struggle so many of us carry—the endless to-do lists, the constant juggling of home, work, relationships, and everything in between. It’s that weight you feel but rarely talk about, and it can leave you overwhelmed, undervalued, and completely disconnected from the person you really are. This session is about changing that for ourselves and ultimately improve client care. Together, we’ll unpack what the mental load truly is, how it impacts your emotional and mental well-being, and what it’s costing you. But we’re not stopping there. This is about action—real, practical steps to help you lighten the load, set boundaries, and create space for yourself.

The Grief of Being Everything: Lessons from Wanda Maximoff for TheraMamas

This workshop, inspired by the journey of Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) in WandaVision and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, will explore the emotional toll of being a therapist-mother: a woman who feels the constant pull to be everything for everyone. By examining Wanda's story, participants will reflect on their own experiences of grief, power, and the unrealistic expectations they carry. The session will offer actionable tools to process loss, set boundaries, and embrace imperfection while balancing their dual roles.

Parenting on Empty: What Neuroscience and Play Teach Us About Filling Back Up

You know the research. You’ve taught your clients about regulation, attachment, and maybe even the power of play. But when it’s your own child melting down at bedtime (again), it can feel like everything you know goes out the window.

This workshop is designed for mental health professionals who are also parents—those living at the intersection of theory and real-life messiness. Together, we’ll explore the neuroscience of the parenting brain and why even the most informed caregivers can struggle with dysregulation, disconnection, and burnout.

When Money Matters in Therapy: Understanding the Crucial Link Between Therapist Financial Wellness and Clinical Effectiveness

Drawing from current research and clinical experience, this presentation examines how therapist financial stress directly impacts client treatment outcomes. Participants will discover the measurable ways financial strain affects clinical decision-making, therapeutic presence, and treatment quality. The training discusses how a therapist's money worries can unconsciously influence session length, intervention choices, and even ability to maintain appropriate boundaries. Participants will gain practical skills to therapeutically discuss clients' financial situations and explore the clinically significant impact of clients' relationship with money on their overall wellbeing. Participants will leave with actionable steps to enhance client outcomes by addressing the often invisible influence of financial stress on your clinical work.

The Pelvis and The Brain: The Pelvic Health and Mental Health Connection

This course will provide a deeper look into the world of pelvic health including key concepts in pelvic health physical therapy, a review of relevant anatomical and physiological concepts, an overview of common diagnoses treated, and an emphasis on the interplay between pelvic health diagnoses and mental health. Topics covered will enable attendees to understand the relationship between mental health considerations and pelvic floor dysfunction. The course aims to promote a greater understanding and collaboration between pelvic health physical therapists, mental health professionals, and the entire medical care team for enhanced client care.