Summit Speakers
Learn. Connect. Be Inspired.
The NoCo Therapist Summit brings together experienced clinicians, educators, and thought leaders from across Colorado and beyond. Our speakers are passionate about sharing practical knowledge, meaningful insights, and innovative approaches to strengthen the mental health community.
Whether you're attending keynote presentations, workshops, or panel discussions, you'll leave with new ideas, valuable connections, tools you can immediately apply to your work, and the opportunity to earn up to 13.5 NBCC credit hours.
Meet Your Hosts
The NoCo Therapist Summit was founded by Kelly Ulmer and Alyssa Wright, who share a vision of strengthening Northern Colorado's mental health community through education, collaboration, and connection.
Throughout the conference, they'll welcome attendees, introduce speakers, and help guide conversations that bring our community together.
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Meet Our Speakers
We're excited to introduce our inaugural lineup of keynote and breakout speakers!
Carrie Haynes, LPC
Keynote Speaker
Beyond Psychoeducation: Creating Experiential Depth in Therapy Groups
Dori Lewis, LPC
Keynote Speaker
Psilocybin Therapy &
Community Collaboration
Erandi Herndon, LMFT
Keynote Speaker
Rooted in Resistance: A Liberation Approach to Mental Health & Collective Healing
Amaury Rodriguez, LPC
Keynote Speaker
Rooted in Resistance: A Liberation Approach to Mental Health & Collective Healing
Natalia Delgado Paredes
Keynote Speaker
Rooted in Resistance: A Liberation Approach to Mental Health & Collective Healing
Alessandra Vassaux
Keynote Speaker
Rooted in Resistance: A Liberation Approach to Mental Health & Collective Healing
Jess Tiergyn, LPC
Keynote Speaker
Queering Our Suicidality Response
John Jurica, Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist
Breakout Speaker
Healing by Feeling: Working with Men & Masculinities
Claire Timm, LMFT, CEDS
Breakout Speaker
Identifying & Intervening with
Eating Disorders
Dorinna Ruh, LCSW
Breakout Speaker
Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice: Recognition and Response
Brianna Sorensen, Ph.D., LCSW, CADC
Breakout Speaker
Body Sovereignty & Liberatory Care
Ruth Krug, LCSW
Breakout Speaker
The Backdoor to IFS: Using "Therapist Parts" to Learn the Framework and Enhance Client Care
Cassie Thomas, LPC
Breakout Speaker
EMDR, Enriched: Integrating Supportive Modalities for Deeper CPTSD Healing
Annette Brown, LMFT
Breakout Speaker
Restoring Agency:
Religious Deconstruction
Nick Hunt, LCSW
Breakout Speaker
They Don't Want to Be Here: Engaging Resistant Adolescents in Therapy
Jolie Beth Boudreaux, LPC
Breakout Speaker
ADHD: Beyond the Diagnosis
Emilie Ryan, LPC, NCC, SEP
Breakout Speaker
Somatic Resourcing Experiential
Kate French, LMFT
Breakout Speaker
Somatic & Parts-Based
Couples Therapy
Kristen Cochran-Ward, LCSW
Breakout Speaker
Let's Talk About Sex
Jessica Grant, LCSW
Breakout Speaker
Trauma-Informed Care throughout the
Perinatal Experience
Eric Wilson, LPC, NCC
Breakout Speaker
Looking Deeper: Attuning to the
Underlying Needs in Autism
Abby Derr-Moore, LPC
Breakout Speaker
Looking Beneath the Symptoms: Attachment Trauma, Dissociation & Clinical Discernment
Eric Hulsing, LPC, ADHD-CCSP
Breakout Speaker
Age of Anxiety: Roleplaying as Expressive Exploration
Erica Jacquez Bural, LCSW
Breakout Speaker
Beyond Contamination & Perfectionism: Understanding OCD
Join Us!
Be part of two days of learning, connection, and community with clinicians from across Northern Colorado.