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October 2-4, 2025, Casper, WY - Must be in Casper to present.
WCA Fall Conference - Guests are welcome either In-Person or Virtual

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The Wyoming Counseling Association is now accepting proposals for our Fall 2025 Conference, with a special focus on experiential and workshop-style sessions that offer hands-on learning and practical tools for counselors in diverse settings and sessions with Allied Health Professionals (PT, OT, etc) and the partnership with the counseling profession.

We are seeking engaging presenters who can lead sessions in areas such as:

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• Presenters are encouraged to include interactive components in their sessions — such as movement, discussion, guided practice, or creative modalities — to enhance engagement and skill-building.

• Experiential presentations (Engaging through interactive techniques)

• Proposals from Allied Health Professionals and their partnerships with the counseling profession

• Suicide assessment and intervention

• Professional Ethics

• Trauma-informed and somatic-based approaches

• Expressive arts or play therapy

• Nature-based or equine-assisted interventions

• Cultural humility and mental health in rural communities

• Counselor self-care and burnout prevention

• Innovative counseling programs, research projects, and activities that address and/or have been successfully implemented in a variety of settings.

• Collaborative, creative, and effective strategies/best practices for meeting the needs of clients in a variety of settings.

• Effective techniques used to address societal concerns and current issues, including returning military, economically disadvantaged populations, and specific populations.

• Programs with a special tie to our state or region.

• Specific skills, techniques and activities, which can be applied immediately after the conference.

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Whether you’re a seasoned presenter or a local professional with a unique perspective, we’d love to hear from you!

CONFERENCE AUDIENCE

The audience for the conference includes counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, addictions therapists, career development facilitators, other mental health professionals, and graduate students. They work in health care, mental health, colleges, private practice, schools, correction centers, agencies, military and government.

 

This is a volunteer opportunity. As a non-profit, we do not have a budget to pay 18-20 speakers, however, we do offer 1/2 off registration for speakers to attend the pre-conference and full conference.

 

*Please note the lead presenter must have a bachelor's degree. All presentations will be delivered in-person. Presenters must be able to attend the 2025 conference in-person. Presenters are not permitted to sell goods or services as part of WCA conference programming.

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