Details

Format: Live Zoom Webinar

Date + Time: Friday, June 19, 2026 at 9am PT  \ 11am CT  \  12pm ET

Length: 1 Hour

Facilitator: Anna Clark Miller, LPC-S, LMHC-S

Intended Audience: Individuals and helping professionals navigating the complexities of setting boundaries with family members. 

Recording: This training will be recorded and all registrants will have access to it.

Description

This training is designed to assist individuals and helping professionals in setting effective personal boundaries to protect their physical and emotional well-being within family systems. It provides a comprehensive framework for understanding boundaries not as static rules, but as tools that evolve as we mature and encounter new life stages. Participants will explore the nuances of Requests versus Resolutions, learn to pinpoint specific triggers for boundary-setting, and evaluate the strategic use of Low Contact or No Contact as a means of self-protection.

Learning Objectives

1. Differentiate Between Boundary Types: Participants will be able to distinguish between "Requests" which require the willing participation of others to be effective, and "Resolutions," which are self-enacted behaviors that empower an individual to take full responsibility for their own well-being.

2. Implement Strategic Distancing Techniques: Participants will learn to design low or no-contact boundaries by controlling the frequency, duration, or depth of family interactions.

3. Evaluate and Interrupt Codependent Patterns: Participants will learn to identify learned relationship patterns—including enmeshment, caretaking, people-pleasing, enabling, and overreliance—and understand how shifting their own role in the family system can create change in the overall system’s functioning.

Training Agenda

1. Foundations of Boundaries

   1. Defining Personal Boundaries

   2. The Evolution of Needs

   3. Requests vs. Resolutions

2. Strategic Implementation

   1. Pinpointing Patterns

   2. Creating a Realistic Plan

   3. Calibration

   4. Low Contact

   5. No Contact

   6. Managing Pushback

3. Healing and Systems Change

   1. Identifying and Interrupting Codependency

   2. Family Systems

   3. Resources

Continuing Education Hours

This training offers 1.0 NBCC-approved continuing education hour (available for purchase).

Empathy Paradigm has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7921. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Empathy Paradigm is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Presenter Qualifications

Anna Clark Miller, LPC-S, LMHC-S, NCC, is a licensed counselor and clinical supervisor practicing in Texas, Washington, and Oregon. She has a masters degree in counseling psychology and has worked in the counseling field since 2015. As a counseling graduate student, she learned about religious trauma and its impacts on people from high-control religious communities, igniting her interest in this specialty. Today she specializes in treating survivors of religious and spiritual trauma and training the mental health professionals who work with them. She is the author of the Religious Trauma Survival Guide: Education and Recovery for Survivors and Professionals, which offers a path to healing from high-control religious experiences. Through her company, Empathy Paradigm, Anna manages the Religious Trauma Therapist Directory and a library of other practical resources for religious trauma survivors and mental health professionals. Licensing: LPC (Texas) - 75728, LMHC (Washington) - LH61328702, NCC - 718936.

Additional Information

Learn more about Empathy Paradigm and Anna Clark Miller at www.empathyparadigm.com.

Send questions or accommodation requests to anna@empathyparadigm.com.