We are dedicated to nurturing the counseling community by providing spaces that allow professional counselors to share, learn and connect with their peers and colleagues, no matter their career stage or workplace setting. Mark your calendar to join us for one of our premier professional development and networking events.
Hear from experts in the field, make meaningful connections and get the best strategies and tools to support your clients, maintain your licensure and move the profession forward at the ACA Conference & Expo—the must-attend annual event for professional counselors.
Grief, loss and trauma are deeply interconnected experiences that can affect individuals, families, and communities across the lifespan. This webinar series will provide evidence-based strategies and practical tools for supporting individuals navigating grief, loss and trauma.
Suicide prevention remains one of the most critical responsibilities within the counseling profession. Join this virtual event to explore evidence-based strategies, emerging research and practical approaches for identifying and responding to suicide risk.
Adult friendship is having a public reckoning. Yet clinicians have almost no clinical framework for it, leaving them with little more to offer their friend-frustrated clients than a “shrug” and advice to join a club. This live webinar will provide practitioners with an attachment informed intervention for their friend frustrated clients to build, maintain, repair and keep their platonic bonds healthy so that their clients can engage in more secure base friendships and experience less friendship loss and community isolation.
Authors of the ACA children’s book series, We All Have SuperPowers, will share the research, strategies and activities they’ve gathered to help clinicians working with young children build the skills of logical thinking, empathy, mindfulness and resilience.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based behavioral approach designed to increase psychological flexibility. Learn how the six core processes work together so you can help clients respond more flexibly to difficult thoughts, emotions, sensations and behavioral patterns.
Connecting current research with practical application, the Addiction Treatment & Recovery Summit will provide ethical, culturally responsive and recovery-focused strategies that can be applied to work with individuals experiencing addiction disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions.
Hear from experts in the field, make meaningful connections and get the best strategies and tools to support your clients, maintain your licensure and move the profession forward at the ACA Conference & Expo—the must-attend annual event for professional counselors.
ACA maintains a list of meetings and events hosted by our divisions, regions, branches and related organizations.