Upcoming Webinars
From Burnout to Balance: Helping Counselors Build Sustainable Caseloads
As a part of its Innovations in Counseling series, the NBCC Foundation invites you to a free webinar on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, from 1–2 pm EDT. Live webinars are available at no cost, and documentation of 1 NBCC continuing education credit hour is available for registrants who attend the full webinar.
Burnout is a leading cause of counselor attrition, especially among early-career mental health professionals and those in highly demanding clinical roles. This webinar provides counselors with practical, ethical, and clinically sound strategies to build and manage caseloads that are sustainable, aligned with their competencies, and protective of their well-being. Participants will learn how to assess caseload fatigue, set effective boundaries, incorporate wellness practices into their schedules, and align their services with their professional identity. This webinar also explores how organizations and supervisors can foster sustainable work environments, improve counselor retention, and reduce turnover in mental health settings.
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
- identify key signs of clinical burnout and its impact on counselor effectiveness and ethical decision-making.
- apply caseload management strategies that promote counselor sustainability and client care quality.
- integrate boundaries and self-care principles into daily clinical practice to prevent professional exhaustion.
Presenters
Juan Santos, PhD, CRC, LCMHC-S
Dr. Juan Santos is a licensed mental health counselor and clinical supervisor based in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife and two children. He is the owner of Santos Counseling PLLC, an outpatient counseling practice providing individual, couples, and family therapy.
Dr. Santos holds a PhD in counselor education and supervision from the University of the Cumberlands and serves as an adjunct professor at Yorkville University, teaching in the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology program. He is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC), Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor (LCMHC-S), and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC), with degrees from CACREP-accredited programs. His doctoral dissertation was titled “Professional Counselor Competencies in Writing Extreme Hardship Waivers for Undocumented Latino Men from Mexico: A Case Study.”
Dr. Santos earned his master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling from Winston-Salem State University, where he served as a graduate research assistant. He was awarded the National Association of Multicultural Rehabilitation Concerns Graduate Student Scholarship, the Vocational Rehabilitation Scholar Award, and the Winston-Salem State University Alumni Achiever Award. He holds a Bachelor of Science in kinesiology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Dr. Santos specializes in helping individuals navigate life challenges, relationship counseling, and immigration evaluations. He is also an author, course creator, and speaker, with appearances in media outlets such as HuffPost, News 2 WFMY, and 102.1 FM. He frequently presents on mental health topics for community organizations, professional associations, and universities. As an educator, Dr. Santos is passionate about mentoring future counselors and supporting students in their development as ethical, competent, and culturally responsive practitioners and leaders in the field of mental health.
Counseling Children of Parents With Addiction: What to Know and How to Heal
As a part of its Innovations in Counseling series, the NBCC Foundation invites you to a free webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025, from 1–2 pm EDT. Live webinars are available at no cost, and documentation of 1 clock hour of continuing education is available for registrants who attend the full webinar.
Children of parents with addiction need informed counselors, which is crucial for the one-in-four children growing up in these families. This presentation provides information on how children are affected by trauma and chronic stress so that counselors can fully understand the reality of their lives. Counselors may not know there is addiction in the family, as stigma, family secrecy rules, and fear of not being believed can make identification and intervention challenging. The trauma field provides key research that offers a better understanding of the neurobiological effects of the traumas these children experience, which can lead to diagnoses of PTSD. Lifelong consequences may be relational, social, cognitive, academic, attachment, and/or behavioral. Targeted intervention can lead to prevention of the child’s own use and their ability to express feelings, learn trust, feel less isolated, and relieve the shame and stigma of parental use, all of which are necessary for healing. Services are limited for all children, whether individual or in groups. Poverty, parental incarceration, systemic racism, and other forms of discrimination further affect availability. Assessing needs and nurturing strengths and resiliencies is crucial.
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
- identify traumatic adverse effects of parental addiction on children's cognitive, behavioral, physical, and social-emotional development.
- discover how children experience stigma and avoid talking about addiction.
- apply understanding of children's resiliencies to appropriately guide them in developing effective coping skills to heal.
Presenters
Wendy Wade, PhD, LPCC, CADC-1
Wendy Wade, PhD, LPCC, CADC-1, received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, master’s degree from Santa Clara University, multisubject teaching credential from San Jose State University, administrative credential from Santa Clara University, and doctorate from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She began conducting educational support groups with children of parents with addiction in the 1980s before serving as coordinator of the Children’s Program at the Betty Ford Center in the 2000s. She served as a faculty member and administrator in numerous elementary schools and worked with children and families in community mental health clinics, including Santa Cruz County Children’s Mental Health, where she coordinated the family program and was a counselor in inpatient addiction treatment. Dr. Wade also volunteered as a weekend camp counselor bi-monthly for four years at Camp Mariposa for Children of Addiction and began making presentations on this cohort of children, primarily at conferences. In 2016, Dr. Wade began presenting webinars for NAADAC and NBHAP, and she is also an assistant professor at Palo Alto University.
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