Academic Counseling: Enhancing Motivation to Achieve
presented by Kathy Biles, Ph.D., NCC and Gene Eakin, Ph.D. 

Thursday May 1, 2025
Time: 9:00 to 12:00 pm CT
12:00 to 1:00pm CT Lunch On Own
1:00 to 4:00pm CT
6.0 Contact Hours

The focus of this interactive, skill-building workshop is to provide school counselors with additional models and strategies for fulfilling their roles in the academic development domain of the ASCA National Model, including the use of motivational strategies in individual and group counseling for academic achievement and parent/teacher/system consultation and training regarding academic motivation issues.

Learning Objectives for Workshop:

After attending this workshop, participants should be able to: 

• Use Stages of Change to understand how people change and how to determine which change strategy will have greatest efficacy when matched with each stage of change
• Explain the fundamental conditions necessary to elicit “Change Talk”
• Use the style and spirit of listening required to motivate students to change and achieve.
• Ask open-ended questions to elicit "willing to change" talk, "able to change" talk and "ready to change" talk
• Employ readiness rulers, confidence rulers and commitment rulers in eliciting change talk
• Reflect, affirm and summarize change talk

• Address strategies for working with resistance

Kathy Biles, Ph.D., NCC is the school counseling program coordinator at Oregon State University Cascades Campus in Bend, Ore. In addition to her program leadership, Biles teaches coursework in social justice and advocacy, school counseling, career counseling and addictive behavior counseling. Biles also facilitates workshops in motivational interviewing for schools and groups across the country.

Gene Eakin, Ph.D. worked as a school counselor for 27 years and is now the School Counseling Program Lead at Oregon State University – Corvallis. Eakin used these strategies in individual and group work with his students at the high school at which he worked in 2006-08.

SDMHCA Preconference Workshop 

Eating Disorders 101
presented by Tanja Haaland, MA, LPC-S 

Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 CT Lunch Break 1:30pm to 4:30pm CT
6.0 Contact Hours 

Synopsis of Presentation: 
What you need to know when working with individuals with Eating Disorders focusing on
-Medical complications 
-Treatment interventions

Speaker Information:
 Tanja Mundt has been a Licensed Professional Counselor for almost two decades. After graduating with her Master’s from the University of South Dakota, she began her career as a trauma therapist, specializing in treating individuals with a comorbidity of eating disorders. She then established and clinically directed the Eating Disorder Center of Kansas City for a number of years before moving to Arizona to be the Clinical Director of the Meadows Ranch, a nationally recognized eating disorder program for women and girls. During her time overseeing eating disorder facilities, she presented nationally regarding the relationship between eating disorders and trauma and was a clinical consultant for therapists treating highly complex cases. After her time in the eating disorder field, she transitioned to being the Clinical Director of various nationally known substance abuse treatment centers, continuing her specialty in trauma treatment with this clinical population. Ms. Mundt also was the Corporate Clinical Director of the largest Native American behavioral health program in Arizona, which she helped establish. Presently, Ms. Mundt is a behavioral health consultant, specializing in compliance, helping facilities improve clinical outcomes, and provides behavioral health facility clinical oversight. She also is an Arizona board-certified clinical supervisor, providing supervision for associate licensed clinicians. She is completing her doctorate in Public Healthcare Administration and in her free time spends every moment she can with her three children and her house full of animals.