2025 Conference Schedule

We are working hard to build an incredible schedule for our summer 2025 conference. Please check back often to see what is new!

THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2025

(6.25 Contact Hours – July 31st)
– Download 2025 Schedule –

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025

(7.75 Contact Hours – Aug. 1st)
– Download 2025 Schedule –

7:30am – 8:30am
Registration, Networking, & Breakfast

8:30am – 9:00am
Conference Welcome w Robert Bank M.D.

SCDMH Interim State Director (We will also have some welcome surprises!)

9:00am – 10:00am
Solution Focused Brief Therapy: An Approach As Lasting As A Diamond

Elliott Connie, MS, LPC

10:15am – 11:15am
Care of the Soul: A Therapeutic Way of Life

Thomas Moore, PhD

11:30am – 12:30pm
When Ungrieved Sorrow Pervades Personality: Working with Depressive and Self Defeating Patterns

Nancy McWilliams, PhD, ABPP

12:45pm – 2:00pm
Lunch Sessions (Button Above for Details)

3 Sessions to Choose!

  • Countertransference with Depressive and Self-Defeating Patients: Using Therapists’ Emotional Reactions to Facilitate Treatment
    Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., ABPP
    (Main Auditorium)
  • An In-Depth Look at Solution Focused Brief Therapy
    Elliott Connie, LPC
  • Myth, Dream and Magic in the Practice of Therapy
    Thomas Moore, PhD

2:30pm – 3:30pm
The Fastest Route to a More Productive Practice: Target the Most Important Skillset in All of Mental Health

Steven C. Hayes, PhD

3:45pm – 4:45pm
Treating Anxiety in 2025: Are We As Stuck As Our Clients?

Lynn Lyons, LICSW

7:30am – 8:15am
Registration, Networking, & Breakfast

8:15am – 8:30am
Final Day Welcome w Deborah Blalock LPC-S

SCDMH Deputy Director, Community Mental Health (We will also have some welcome surprises!)

8:30am – 9:45am
New Keynote Coming Soon!

Speaker TBD

10:00am – 11:15am
Core Principles for Any Practice: The Art and Science of Psychoanalytic Therapy in the 21st Century

Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D.

11:15am – 12:30pm
Lunch Sessions (Button Above for Details)

3 Sessions To Choose!

  • Exploring All Things Psychotherapy! An Interview and Conversation with Counseling Legend – Dr. Joffe Ellis
    Dr. Debbie Joffe Elllis (Main Auditorium)
  • The Shift Into Action: Helping Anxious and Depressed People with a Process-Based Approach
    Lynn Lyons, LICSW
  • Clinical Case Consultation with Dr. Jonathan Shedler: What to Do When Therapy Feels Stuck
    Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D.

1:00pm – 4:30pm (including breaks)
One Size Fits None: Acceptance Commitment Therapy & A Process Based Approach

Steven C. Hayes, PhD

AN AFTERNOON EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) provides a simplified framework for a unified and effective process-based approach to your practice, one that can integrate most of the things you already do well, while expanding your focus to include virtually all biopsychosocial change processes of known importance.

Dr. Hayes will work with all of us in the main auditorium working through “real plays”, experiential exercises, skill demonstrations, and methods to improve the therapeutic relationship.

The workshop will go beyond theory to implement an approach to practice in which every voice matters and clients can be helped without having to force them into syndromal boxes.

ALL THAT'S MISSING IS YOU!

We have the venue, the speakers, and the 2 1/2 day experience ready and waiting for you!

Stay Connected!

Join our email list to receive all event information and updates.

STAY CONNECTED!

Join Our Email List

Join our e-mail list to receive the latest updates, promotions, speaker spotlights and more for the The Lowcountry Mental Health Conference.

Thank you. You have successfully subscribed!