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All clients are impacted by the historical events, social norms, and power structures in which they live.

And so are all therapists.

To be effective across generations, clinicians must expand their understanding of culture by viewing age cohort and generation as critical variables—going beyond stereotypes about how “Boomers” or “The Silent Generation” will present in and respond to psychotherapy.

In this session, Dr. Katherine Dearborn King—geropsychology expert and author of The Well Helper—will share tools to explore how intersectional identities converge to shape how older adults understand mental health, express distress, relate to authority, and engage in treatment.

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Clients in midlife and beyond frequently find themselves struggling with difficult life changes. Whether retirement, marital shifts, caregiving, health challenges, or bereavement - all transitions include uncertainty and can trigger emotional distress, interpersonal strain, and feelings of loss or disconnection. 

Now there’s a roadmap for how to guide your clients through life transitions to emotional wellness!

In this session, Dr. Lillian Gibson – highly recommended speaker and expert in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) – will show you a practical, evidence-based approach for helping clients navigate change while utilizing strategies to strengthen emotional resilience.

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When symptoms persist despite “doing everything right,” anxiety, depression, and trauma responses often deepen—especially for midlife and older clients navigating hormonal shifts, chronic pain, sleep disruption, and existential stress.

In this training with Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH—a renowned integrative medicine clinician and educator—you’ll gain practical tools to support client well-being while staying clearly within your scope of practice.

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Clients in the second half of life often notice changes in memory, attention, and mental stamina—and many assume these shifts mean something is “wrong.” Therapists must help clients understand what’s typical while avoiding both over-pathologizing and minimizing their concerns.

In this session, Ann M. Steffen, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor of Psychological Sciences and Board-Certified Clinical Geropsychologist will give you a clear roadmap of the top strategies clinicians need to support brain health with confidence and nuance.

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Your older clients’ chronic pain can profoundly impact every aspect of their lives – from preoccupation with managing discomfort that directs their decisions... to fatigue and irritability created by disrupted sleep... to isolation caused by avoiding meaningful life activities and feeling misunderstood.

It’s easy for them – and for you – to feel hopeless that anything can change.

In this session, Dr. Afton L. Hassett - leading expert in the field of resilience and pain and author of Chronic Pain Reset: 30 Days of Activities, Practices and Skills to Help You Thrive – will give you the top tools every therapist needs when working with older adults experiencing chronic pain.

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In this session, Richard Leider, internationally bestselling author of Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old? The Path of Purposeful Aging, will teach you how disruptions in purpose during later life often show up clinically as anxiety, depression, burnout, and emotional numbness—offering a clear framework for restoring meaning, vitality, and direction as we age.

Drawing on decades of counseling-based training, research, and work across healthcare, government, and community systems, this session reframes purpose as a core driver of mental health, resilience, and psychological well-being.

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Retirement is not a single moment but a process—a developmental stage that can evoke both anticipation and anxiety.

Clients have spent decades building a meaningful career, developing skills and expertise, and creating a professional identity rooted in a sense of competence and connection – only to face the unsettling tasks of letting it all go.

Many therapists are challenged by not knowing how to guide clients as they contemplate this transition and may feel pressured to provide “the right answers” about when and how to retire.

In this session, Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD and Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC – renowned experts and co-authors of Letting Go of the Work You Love – offer a clear, clinically grounded, evidence-based roadmap that you can use immediately with your clients or for yourself.

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Most women aren’t prepared for the changes they’ll experience with the menopause transition and often describe related mood dysregulation, anxious thoughts, weight gain, and sleep problems as things that are “wrong.” And since menopause is a natural feature of aging, therapists must walk a fine line between medicalizing and trivializing their menopausal clients’ complaints.

In this session, Signe Darpinian, LMFT, CEDS – author of A Women’s Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-being at Midlife – will give you a roadmap of the top strategies you need to know to work effectively with your menopausal clients.

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Every divorce is unique, of course.

But a “gray divorce” – one that occurs after age 50 and following many years of marriage and its related entanglements – presents unique challenges for the individual, the couple, and the family.

With older couples often parting for reasons that differ from those of the younger generation – and potentially facing age-related obstacles – it's important for therapists to understand the differing challenges experienced by those over 50, versus those of their younger counterparts.

In this session, Linda Hershman – author of Gray Divorce: Everything You Need to Know About Later-Life Breakups – will give you the tools you need to be ready to help divorce-questioning, divorcing, and post-divorce clients and their adult children.

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Many midlife clients are surprised by the emotional impact of launching children into adulthood and transitioning toward an empty nest.

And there are ways to navigate these changes well… and ways to make the adjustment—for both parents and children—much harder.

In this session, Keely Rodriguez—specialist in women’s midlife issues—will share tools for working with identity loss, heightened parenting anxiety, and emotional fatigue embedded in this developmental transition.

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Later life has a way of stripping away old roles and forcing the question many clients are afraid to ask out loud: What now?

In this practical, clinician-focused session, Dr. Julie Erickson—published aging scholar and author of The Aging Well Workbook for Anxiety and Depression—shares evidence-based tools for helping older adults work through identity shifts, loss, and existential anxiety without collapsing into hopelessness or avoidance.

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