Event details

  • July 23-25, 2026

  • In-person event!

  • Networking and community

  • Earn up to 12 pre-conference, plenary, and post-conference CEs

  • Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

  • Metro Atlanta Area | 2800 Cobb Galleria Pkwy, Atlanta, GA 30339

Investment

Early bird pricing - now through May 15, 2026

New Professionals

New Professionals rate must be verified. Available to registrants who graduated or have been licensed since Jan 2021. Send verification to [email protected].

Three days of education & community building

THURSDAY

  • 8am: Registration opens
  • 9am: Breakfast
  • 10am: Workshop A (2 CEs)
  • 12pm: Lunch on your own
  • 2pm: Workshop B (2 CEs)
  • 4:30pm: Break
  • 5:30pm: Networking happy hour

FRIDAY

  • 8am: Breakfast
  • 8:30am: Business meeting
  • 9:30am: Keynote session A (2 CEs)
  • 12pm: Boxed lunch provided
  • 1pm: Keynote session B (3 CEs)
  • 4:30pm: Student poster presentation (1 CE with vote) 

SATURDAY

  • 8am: Wellness break - details TBD
  • 8:30am: Breakfast
  • 9:30am: Workshop C (2 CEs)

Keynote Presentation

Love, Lies, and Large Language Models: Infidelity recovery in the era of AI

This keynote explores the systemic and relational dimensions of healing from infidelity in a world mediated by technology and artificial intelligence. Through a combination of case illustrations, theory integration, and reflective exercises, participants will learn to view infidelity not solely as an individual moral failure, but as a relational symptom embedded within broader cultural, technological, and attachment systems.

Therapists will gain tools to help couples move from blame and fragmentation toward co-created accountability and growth. By exploring both the harm and potential of modern technology, this presentation invites MFTs to consider how AI and digital tools can become instruments of transparency, regulation, and even healing — when guided by systemic insight and ethical care.

Why this Matters for MFTs

Infidelity has long represented one of the deepest ruptures a couple can experience — shattering trust, destabilizing identity, and reconfiguring the emotional balance of the relationship system.

For Marriage and Family Therapists, it is not only a clinical crisis but also a profound relational opportunity: an inflection point that reveals patterns of disconnection, unmet needs, and attachment injuries woven through the couple and their wider systems.

In the digital age, however, the landscape of infidelity and repair has evolved in unprecedented ways. Partners are now contending with betrayals that occur through text messages, encrypted chats, virtual relationships, and even AI-generated intimacy. The line between secrecy and privacy, or connection and compulsion, is increasingly blurred. Technology has introduced new forms of closeness, temptation, and surveillance — all of which shape the cycle of betrayal, discovery, and recovery in the therapy room.

Learning Objectives

  • Differentiate three forms of infidelity (emotional, physical, and digital/AI-assisted) and map how each impacts systemic patterns of communication and attachment.

  • Identify at least two circular processes (e.g., secrecy–pursuit, avoidance–control) commonly activated by digital betrayals and formulate systemic interventions to interrupt them.

  • Apply a relational framework that integrates family systems, attachment, and sex therapy principles to guide couples through the stages of post-infidelity repair.

  • Demonstrate two strategies for using technology (e.g., transparency tools, shared digital agreements) to support rebuilding trust and relational accountability.


Workshop A: What would you do if you got a Subpoena?

Presenter: Trudy Post Sprunk

In our litigious society, it is more common than ever for psychotherapists to be subpoenaed to testify in divorce, custody, and trauma cases.

We will discuss responding to a subpoena and encourage you to look at personal attitudes and biases you may have about the legal system. Calling your liability insurance attorney for advice is the best place to start.

There is an ethical conversation to be had regarding access to client records and requirements of confidentiality. Refer to the AAMFT, ACA, NASW, and APA Code of Ethics for more clarity. When organizing your records, do not decide what you can legally and ethically release without consulting an attorney.

You may need to defend your diagnostic codes and treatment plan during a trial. Prepare a list of your client’s characteristics that support your diagnosis.

Undoubtedly, cross-examination is the most stressful part of the courtroom experience. Defense attorneys often play strategic games with the facts that are designed to rattle you under cross-examination. Examples include leading questions, the cut-off, rapid fire, intentional ambiguity, and implying impropriety.


Workshop B: Differentiation of Self: Making the Most of Who You Are Everywhere You Go

 Presenter: Michael Lee Cook 

This workshop will focus on the concept of Differentiation of Self as formulated in Bowen Family Systems Theory (BFST) and its implications in the development and functioning of individuals in their families of origin and how this learning plays out throughout life in other emotional and relationships systems such as marriage, work, and other social environments. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of how the concept of differentiation of self can be used to define oneself and a foundation for being and bringing the best of who we are to relationships, family, and community.


Workshop C: TBD

Trevor White, LMFT, AAMFT Approved Supervisor Candidate is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Seattle, Washington, and founder of Constellation Therapy. He specializes in couples counseling, infidelity treatment, and relational healing in the digital age. Trevor serves on the Board of the Washington Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (WAMFT) as Technology Chair and integrates systemic, attachment, and culturally responsive frameworks to help couples rebuild trust and connection.

Trevor White, LMFT

AAMFT Approved Supervisor Candidate

Refund Policy

Standard refund policy: Registration may be refunded up to 10 in advance of registration close date. A $10 administration and transaction fee will be deducted from your refund.