2026 Utah Mental Health Summit

THE SUMMIT of all the therapists in the great State of Utah

August 28 - 29, 2026  ·  Davis Conference Center
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (MT)

The Summit is back for Utah’s premier gathering of mental health professionals. On Friday and Saturday, August 28-29, 2026, clinicians from across disciplines will come together at the Davis Conference Center in Layton for two days of exceptional training, meaningful networking, and collaboration.

Featuring keynote presenter Anna Lieber, LCMHC, NCC, CCMHC, suicide prevention, ethics offerings, supervision content, specialty breakouts, and conversations that shape the future of our profession, the Summit is a rare opportunity to connect with colleagues who share a common commitment to improving mental health care in Utah.


Earn up to 15.5 CEs just in time for licensing renewal! Members of UAMFT, UMHCA, and NASW-UT receive a discount. If you can’t make it in person, that’s okay! All breakout rooms will be live-streamed. This only happens every two years, so grab a colleague and reserve your seat today!


Tickets


Student
Student
125.00 USD

Members
Whole Conference
300.00 USD
Second Day Only
175.00 USD

Non-Members
Whole conference
350.00 USD
First Day Only
175.00 USD
Second Day Only
200.00 USD

Agenda

Friday, August 28
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Start your Summit experience here, check in, gather your materials, and settle in for a day of connection, learning, and collaboration with the best of Utah’s mental health community.
8:00 AM
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 8:50 AM
8:00 AM - 8:50 AM
The long awaited conference is here. Welcome! You are with all your peers. This is your time to learn from the latest and greatest in Utah!
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Examine ethical and trauma-informed clinical care for survivors of human trafficking. Learn to navigate complex ethical dilemmas, understand trauma impacts, and apply interventions that promote autonomy, cultural humility, and long-term recovery.
This presentation explores the critical relationship between hormonal health and mental health across the lifespan, with a particular focus on the perimenopausal and menopausal transitions.
Secrets of the Spectrum provides an overview of autism spectrum disorder, focusing on awareness, communication, and de-escalation strategies. It highlights key characteristics, the importance of interpreting behavior as communication
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Visit our exhibitors to be entered in the raffle to win prizes!
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Explore innovative treatment considerations to support parents/guardians of traumatized children. Emphasis is placed on culturally responsive care for adults and children to heal from trauma
Many clinicians are expected to conduct family therapy without formal training. Learn practical, usable skills for managing multiple participants, recognizing and working with triangles, and shifting from individual to systemic thinking
This session presents data examining clinicians’ current practice realities. Presenters will share results from a recent statewide survey showing trends in caseloads, insurance challenges, supervision, and sustainability
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Santorini Buffet
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Explore the invisible dynamics of child therapy by identifying personal triggers and emotional echoes. This workshop provides practical tools for child therapists to manage countertransference, and deepen self-reflection
This presentation explores the ethical use of AI in counseling through a relational, humanistic lens. Grounded in research and professional ethics, we will reflect on presence, use of self, and the therapeutic relationship.
Supervision is our first glimpse at what it means to be a therapist. It sets a foundation for what we believe about our role and what we believe about our clients. Let's explore our legacies of supervision. All therapists welcome, including supervisees.
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Visit our exhibitors to be entered in the raffle to win prizes!
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
This presentation provides clinicians with a practical framework for effective couples therapy, including session structure, communication tools, conflict management strategies, and interventions.
Well-intentioned, supportive strategies can keep clients comfortable… but also stuck. This interactive session explores the balance between validation and forward movement, highlighting how participation in therapy is a learned skill.
Many clients report a “good childhood” yet struggle with anxiety, disconnection, and relational distress. This presentation explores emotional neglect as an often-missed form of trauma and teaches clinicians how to identify, conceptualize, and treat.
Saturday, August 29
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Optional check-in is available on day two for those who did not register on day one to pick up materials, confirm attendance, and get oriented before sessions begin.
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
This workshop focuses on therapists' lived experiences within therapeutic relationships, recognizing their profound impact both personally and professionally. Participants will engage in experiential exercises to explore relational dynamics
As Utah expands cross-discipline supervision, what happens to professional identity? This interactive panel brings LCSWs, LMFTs, and LCMHCs (including rehabilitation counselors) together to explore bias, ethical tensions, and supervisory responsibility.
Many trauma survivors don’t look dysregulated, they look capable, insightful, and successful, yet remain internally stuck. This presentation explores how trauma organizes identity around safety rather than authenticity, how fawning shows up in therapy
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Visit our exhibitors to be entered in the raffle to win prizes!
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
We were never meant to do this work alone. Mental health professionals are entrusted with the stories, suffering, and secrets of others, yet the work itself can quietly pull us toward isolation.
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Saturday LUNCH & Learn featuring Tex-Mex Buffet
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Unsafe messaging can increase risk for suicide with vulnerable individuals. With safe messaging principles however lives can be saved. In this session, learn how to speak about suicide in ways that promote hope, healing, and help-seeking
This introductory session traces play therapy’s theoretical roots before introducing Jungian psychology as a depth-oriented clinical lens. Participants explore core concepts: psyche, persona, and shadow, through instruction and hands-on mask-making
This experiential workshop helps clinicians assess burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and compassion satisfaction using the ProQOL. Participants will engage in guided experiential learning to reduce compassion fatigue and enhance compassion satisfaction
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
After you grab your snacks, head to the Eclipse Expo to see if you won a raffle prize!
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Ever wondered if you're the right therapist for your LGBTQ+ client? This session equips cisgender, heterosexual clinicians with foundational knowledge, self-awareness practices, and concrete clinical skills for delivering affirming, ethical care
This course is designed to assist mental health providers to better understand the fundamentals of Somatic base therapies and how to prepare clients for these modalities. Body-based (somatic) therapies focus on the mind-body connection
The Common Ground Model introduces a systemic framework for couples nervous system co-regulation, mapping the feedback loops that keep partners stuck and the conditions that create safety. Drawing on EFT, polyvagal theory, and systems theory.
5:00 PM
5:00 PM

Speakers

Sarah Larmore

Sarah Larmore, LCSW, is President of NASW Utah and Director of Psychological Health for the Utah Army National Guard. Her work spans across micro, mezzo and macro fields of clinical, leadership, and advocacy to strengthening mental health systems.

Michelle Pomeroy

Michelle Pomeroy, LMFT, founded Diagonal House in Draper, UT. EFT Certified, ART trained, KAP provider. Creator of the Common Ground Model — a couples framework built around felt safety and nervous system state as the foundation for relational change.

Ronda Davis

Ronda Davis is a therapist, speaker, and founder of Healing Feathers, a group mental health practice helping people heal from trauma, grief, and survival patterns through compassionate, authentic, whole-person care.

Kayleen Davidson

Kayleen Davidson, LCSW, is Assistant Clinical Director at Feller Behavioral Health, owner of KJD Services, and host of *Two People in the Room*. A somatic therapist with 16+ years of experience, she specializes in trauma-informed care.

Amber Willis

Dr. Amber Willis is Clinical Director at Feller Behavioral Health with 25+ years of clinical experience. She specializes in trauma resolution using somatic modalities, EMDR, IFS, and Lifespan Integration.

Becky Edwards

Becky Edwards is an integrative psychotherapist at Wasatch Family Therapy specializing in IFS and somatic integration. An author and speaker, she trains clinicians in IFS modalities, faith transitions, generational trauma, and burnout resilience.

Sarah Hunter

Sarah Hunter, a licensed clinical social worker, specializes in OCD, anxiety, trauma, and burnout. With 10+ years of experience across schools and private practice, she provides compassionate care to build resilience and well-being.

Anna Lieber

Ultimately, this keynote invites us to reconsider resilience not as something we cultivate alone, but as something we create together.

Madison Kraft

Madi Kraft is an LCSW and an Assistant Clinical Director passionate about authentic, effective care and helping clinicians create meaningful change. She believes great clinical work happens when we’re willing to be human first.

Andrea Beckstrom

Andrea brings over 16 years of experience in mental health care and currently served as the Medical Director of LÉVO, a holistic psychiatric med management clinic. Andrea is deeply committed to a whole-person approach to care

Joseph Gleed

Joseph Gleed, DSWc, LCSW, is a trauma therapist, educator, and Clinical Director of Renova Wellness & Consulting. A DSW candidate at the University of Kentucky, he teaches at the University of Utah and presents nationally on trauma and resilience.

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Exhibitors

National Association of Social Workers (NASW) - Utah Chapter

The NASW is the largest membership organization of social workers in the world. NASW Utah works to enhance the professional growth & development of its members, create & maintain professional standards, & to advance sound social policies.

Utah Mental Health Counselors Association

UMHCA is the voice of Mental Health Counselors in Utah and a proud member of the Utah Coalition of Mental Health Professions.

Utah Association for Marriage and Family Therapy

Advancing the practice and the profession of marriage and family therapy in Utah.

Salt Lake Behavioral Health

118 bed, acute inpatient, psychiatric and chemical dependency hospital for adults located in South Salt Lake.

LGBTQ+ Affirmative Therapist Guild of Utah

Education and Training to Support Sexual and Gender Diversity in Utah. Outreach, Networking, Continuing Education, Training, and Social Media Awareness.

Anxiety Solutions

At Anxiety Solutions we provide ultrasound guided Stellate Ganglion Nerve Blocks (Dual Sympathetic Reset) as an adjunct treatment to aid in the management of PTSD, anxiety disorders, migraines, select chronic pain, and dysautonomia related conditions.

Wellspring Healing and Therapy

Wellspring Healing and Therapy is a group practice with locations in Provo, Sandy, and Vancouver. We specialize in supporting people through burnout, life transitions, and relationship conflict through IFS, ACT, EFT, and other evidence-based models.

Utah Marriage Commission

The Utah Marriage Commission provides free, research-based relationship education to help Utahns build and sustain healthy relationships and stronger marriages.

Bridgeway Integrated Healthcare Services

Bridgeway Integrated Healthcare Services is Utah's largest integrated behavioral healthcare provider, offering families Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), mental health, and psychiatric medication management services.

USU EEJ College of Education, Health & Human Services

Providing information on the Mater's of Rehabilitation Counseling and graduate certificates in Rehabilitation and Disability Studies and Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling.

TheraPrac

TheraPrac is a simple, modern practice platform built for therapy practices. We help clinicians manage scheduling, documentation, telehealth, reminders, intake, and client communication without the clutter of oversized EHR systems.

Purple Sky Counseling

Purple Sky Counseling provides trauma-focused, neuro-affirming therapy for all ages at 8 locations across Utah — specializing in EMDR and deep healing for clients who need more than coping skills. Led by EMDRIA Approved Trainer™ Cassidy DuHadway.

Odyssey House

Odyssey House is a highly prominent, multi-regional non-profit substance abuse and mental health treatment organization. Originally founded in 1966

Healthy Mind Map

Healthy Mind Map helps people track their mood, sleep, and daily habits, then see the patterns connecting them. For clinicians, it turns the 167 hours between sessions into something you and your client can look at together.

Center for Change

Center for Change is a program committed to helping those suffering from eating disorders. We offer Inpatient, Residential, Partial Hospitalization Program, Intensive Outpatient Program, and Outpatient services. Located in Orem and Salt Lake City.

Bridge Recovery Center

Our 21-day in-person program combines clinical therapy, trauma-informed bodywork, personal training, acupuncture, mindfulness, and expert medical care — all woven together in one of the most restorative natural environments in the country.

Aspen Grove Behavioral Hospital

Aspen Grove Behavioral Hospital serves adolescents, adults and older adults from around the nation with a spectrum of inpatient and outpatient treatment for mental health and chemical dependency.

Ascent Behavioral Health

For over 30 years, Ascent Behavioral Health has provided a continuum of care for adolescents, including acute inpatient care, stabilization and assessment, nature-based treatment, and long-term residential programs throughout Utah.

Critical Memory Integration (by ARISE Alliance Institute)

CMI is a structured yet unscripted therapy framework that helps clinicians recognize and work with patterns driving client behavior. Rather than rigid protocols, CMI helps you stay present, responsive, and effective across simple and complex cases.

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Sponsors

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Location

Location: Davis Conference Center, 1651 North 700 West, Layton, UT 84041