Presentations

Seeking Grace through Self-Compassion

November 8, 2025, PCA 2025 Conference, Bethlehem, PA

Seeking Grace through Self-Compassion:
Using insight on self-compassion based on God’s grace to take action to foster growth, decrease shame, and increase well-being

PCA Grace Based Self CompassionDownload

CAPS East 2025

October 25, 2025, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA

The Distress of Adoptive Parents: What Adoptive Parents want Counselors to Know about Parenting Children with Trauma

Adoptive Parent Distress CAPS East PresentationDownload

ACES 2025 Neuroscience in Counselor Education and Supervision Roundtable

Neuroscience in CES RoundtableDownload
October 11, 2025 Philadelphia, PA Erica Rhoads, PhD and Deanna Bishop, PhD

Grace-Filled Self-Compassion

Self-Compassion Teaching DemoDownload

Neuroscience in Supervision Options for Integration: PACES CSI Pre-Conference Workshop

April 11, 2025 State College Erica Rhoads, PhD

PACES Neuroscience Supervision SlidesDownload

Fueling Up from the Healthy Mind Platter: Improving Mental Well-Being

ACC November 16, 2024 Virtual Erica Rhoads, PhD, Deanna Bishop, MS, and Ana Barend, MA

ACC Healthy Mind Platter 2024Download

How did we get here? A Phenomenology of Adoptive Parent Distress

Understanding the nature of bi-directional trauma impact in adoptive families compels counselors to be aware of the need to help adoptive parents work through the issues created by parenting children with trauma. This study looked at the lived experiences of distress for adoptive parents and used a narrative therapy group approach to both identify areas of distress and provide a platform for parents to interact and share their stories.
Adoptive Parent DistressDownload

PCA October 25-26— Harrisburg, PA

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Healthy Mind Platter NARACES: Erica Rhoads, PhD, Deanna Bishop, MS, and Ana Barend, MA

Healthy Mind Platter NARACESDownload

We’re available as speakers!

Interested in inviting us to speak at a future event? We’d love to hear from you!

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