Events
Networking & Educational Events Hosted by Summit BHC
Summit BHC hosts a number of networking and educational events for our colleagues throughout the year. Please register if you are interested in attending.
For questions regarding Summit BHC sponsored events, please reach out to Janis Ellington, Director of Education & Event Strategies, at 912-678-4480 or janis.ellington@summitbhc.com.
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Anger Management Certification Training
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Human Cost of Lethal Force: Understanding Psychological Reactions in Military Populations
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Redefining Self-Care For Helping Professionals
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Executive Functioning in Adolescents: Coaching the Brain That’s Still Under Construction
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Military and Government Security Clearance in Therapy: What Therapists Need to Know
Summary:
Don’t let your client’s security clearance scare you – or your clients. Learn how concerns about security clearance can positively and negatively impact your therapeutic approach.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Building Multicultural Clinical Competence: Identity, Bias, and Intersectionality in Therapy
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Understanding How Narrative Therapy Techniques are Effective with Youth Who Experience Trauma, Depression, and Anxiety
Summary:
Voluntary donations will benefit Brightside Child and Family Advocacy – providing advocacy and services to prevent child abuse and neglect
Hosted by:
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Navigating the Crisis Continuum: Supporting Suicidal Clients Across Levels of Care
Summary:
This training provides practical guidance for assessing suicide risk, engaging resistant clients, collaborating with caregivers and support systems, facilitating voluntary or involuntary hospitalization, and documenting clinical decisions. Participants will also explore continuity of care following discharge, including safety planning, hospital processing, treatment adjustments, and preparation for the client’s return to outpatient therapy.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Understanding Narcissistic Dynamics in Everyday Interactions
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Motivational Interviewing with Adolescents: Working With the Client Who Didn’t Choose To Be There
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Coercive Control Certification Training – Abuse of Power Dynamics in Relationships
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Beyond Attention-Seeking: Understanding Interpersonal Needs in Personality Pathology
Summary:
This training explores validation-seeking, reassurance-seeking, attachment needs, dependency, fear of abandonment, and other interpersonal drivers that commonly shape behavior.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Crisis Intervention and Risk Management in Personality Disorders
Summary:
This training examines crisis intervention and risk assessment considerations when working with individuals who have personality disorders.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Multicultural Competence in Practice: Awareness, Humility, & Clinical Application
Summary:
This session explores the essential principals of multicultural competenace in clinical practice, with an emphasis on translating cultural knowledge, awareness, and self-reflection into culturally responsive care.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Self-Injurious Behavior: Understanding and Treating Clients who Self-Harm
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Integrated Treatment for PTSD & Substance Use Disorder
Summary:
This presentation on integrated treatment approaches for co-occurring PTSD and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) will highlight that PTSD and SUD frequently co-occur, and are associated with worse treatment outcomes, greater risk (e.g. suicidality, legal), and greater release date.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Widowhood, Vulnerability, and Exploitation: Recognizing Abuse During Grief
Summary:
This workshop explores how this stage of life may increase susceptibility to financial exploitation, scams, undue influence, caregiver manipulation, and elder abuse.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Executive Functioning in Children: Beyond “He’s Just Not Trying”
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Adult Executive Functioning: When ADHD, Anxiety, and Life Demands Collide
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Seeing the Invisible: Identifying Violence and Coercive Control
Summary:
This workshop introduces participants to the contemporary understandings of coercive control, psychological abuse, post-seperation abuse, and patterns of domination and frequently go unrecognized in clinical settings.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Overview of Maternal Mental Health in Underserved Communities
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Decoding Danger: Assessing Risk of Violence
Summary:
This training examines how violent behavior isdefined, the factors that contribute to violence risk, and the indicators professionals use to evaluate potential danger.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Beyond De-Escalation: Advanced Crisis Intervention
Summary:
This training examines complex presentations involving psychosis, intoxication, personality-driven escalation, and other high-acuity situations that challenge traditional crisis intervention models.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Breaking Through the Fog: Denial, Minimization, Trauma Bonds, and Victim Resistance
Summary:
This workshop explores why survivors stay, why they may defend perpetrators, and how clinicians can engage clients without creating resistance or inadvertently replicating coercive dynamics.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Culture, Identity & Intersectionality: From Understanding to Clinical Application
Summary:
This presentation examines how culture, identity, and intersectionality shape the therapeutic relationship andbroader clinical process.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
The Clinician’s Mandate to Report Without Doing Harm
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janisellington@gmail.com
Power, Privilege & Systemic Inequity: Understanding Impact and Strengthening Clinical Practice
Summary:
This session explores how power, privilege, social structures, and systemic inequities shape mental health experiences and influence the therapeutic process.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Culture Meets Evidence: Adapting Clinical Interventions for Diverse Clients
Summary:
This presentation explores how clinicians can bridge evidence-based therapeutic models with the cultural identities, values, beliefs, and lived experiences of the clients they serve.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Assessment & Differential Diagnosis in Domestic Violence and Coercive Control
Summary:
This workshop examines assessment tools, clinical interviews, behavioral indicators, and differential diagnoses commonly encountered when allegations of abuse arise.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com
Culture, Power, and Identity: Understanding Domestic Violence Across Diverse Communities
Summary:
This workshop examines how culture influences both the experience and recognition of abuse while helping clinicians avoid stereotyping, cultural blindness, and misattribution.
For more information contact:
Name: Janis Ellington
Phone: 9126784480
Email: janis.ellington@summitbhc.com


































