MEET THE OFFICERS 2025-2026
President
President Elect
President Elect
Andrea Whitten, Ph.D, LPC-S
President Elect
President Elect
President Elect
Juanita Barnett, PhD, LPC, NCC
Past President
President Elect
Past President
Shelia Holmes, M.ED, LPC-S, NCC
Secretary
Secretary
Past President
Alicia Winkle Davila, LPC-S, BC-TMH
Treasurer
Secretary
Historian
Emily Barfield, ALC, NCC
Historian
Secretary
Historian
Celia Hodnett, EDS, LPC
Meet The Officers 2024-2025
President
President Elect
President Elect
Shelia Holmes, M.ED, LPC-S, NCC
President Elect
President Elect
President Elect
Andrea Whitten, Ph.D, LPC-S
Past President
President Elect
Past President
Stephen Kellen, M.ED, ALC
Secretary
Secretary
Past President
LaTrivia Mayers, LPC, NCC, CCMHC
Treasurer
Secretary
Historian
Hiram Faircloth, Eds, NCC, ALC
"under the supervision of Dr. Hard, PhD, LPC-S"
Historian
Secretary
Historian
Madalyn Caldwell, Ph.D., LPC-S
Continued Education Opportunities
WHOLENESS AND THE MYTH OF PERFECTION July 24, 2026 9 am – 2:30 pm
A live, real time, interactive, virtual workshop
Presented by: Andrea Mathews, MA, LPC, NCC for Mental Health Clinicians
4 NBCC and 4 ABSWE Continuing Education Credits
It is hard to imagine that being good could be a problem. But those who identify with goodness (i.e. perfection, because they are never quite good enough) are very commonly run entirely by guilt, by obligation and by a deep sense of unworthiness. Those who, often unconsciously, strive for perfection frequently live miserable lives trying so hard to be perfect that they don’t even know what is real within. Further, they often find themselves deeply involved in manipulative, abusive and toxic relationships over and over again. This workshop will uncover the myth of perfection, its source and its consequences and offer some avenues to facilitate healing and movement toward wholeness for the many clients you see who struggle with perfectionism.
Objectives:
- Explain how we have attached perfectionism to identity as a sense of self.
- Explain perfectionism as certainty.
- Explain some transcendental, religious and Jungian concepts regarding the duality between good and evil.
- Explain how shame might be considered to be the shadow of perfectionism.
- Define wholeness from Transpersonal and Jungian perspectives.
- Explain how self-guidance and making friends with difficult emotions leads toward wholeness.
- Explain some constructive ways to transform practice into process.
The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.~ Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 154
And so, for the first time in my life…I took the lamp and descended into the depths of myself, into the deep abyss. But as I moved away from conventional certainties..., I realized that I was losing touch with myself. At each step of the descent, a new person revealed itself in me…. And when I had to stop my exploration because the path was fading…I found a bottomless abyss at my feet, and it was from there—arising I know not whence—came the current I dare to call my life." ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Le Milieu Divin, 1927, pp. 76-77
Register ONLINE before July 22, 2026 for $125.00 ($60.00 for students) at
Supervisors for ALCs
ALABAMA COUNSELING ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2025: ALMHCA MEETING & DINNER
