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Clinically Ever After - February 2026

Ariel Landrum and Stefanie Bautista

When the Story Feels Stuck, Let Play Lead the Way


Level: Beginner

Ariel Landrum, LMFT, ATR, is the primary clinical instructor and a California-based therapist specializing in Narrative, CBT, and Art Therapy, known for weaving cultural identity and geek culture into creative, affirming clinical work and trainings. She’s drawn to the Disney conference because it blends her love of play, storytelling, and healing, offering a space to help clinicians unlock stuck stories through creativity and inner-child work.

Stefanie Bautista, MA, is a program manager with extensive experience leading after-school, enrichment, and athletic programs across multiple school sites in Los Angeles, serving hundreds of students. She excels in team leadership, curriculum development, and building partnerships that enhance student learning and engagement.

Even the most insightful clients and seasoned clinicians can feel stuck during the healing process. Narrative therapy reminds us that people are not the problem, the problem is the problem. Yet stuckness still shows up. Taking up space, time, and emotional labor. Healing requires experiences that bring forgotten and hidden parts of ourselves back online. Sometimes these are parts we tried to leave behind. Other times, they are playful and creative parts we didn’t realize we had lost along the way.

This presentation invites attendees to reimagine the healing process through the lens of Disney and Pixar stories. Characters like Rapunzel (Tangled), Riley (Inside Out), and Woody (Toy Story) offer rich metaphors for stuckness, integration, and reclaiming agency. Using these archetypes as a guide, attendees will learn playful and creative narrative interventions they can use with clients, and themselves. Together, we will explore how to externalize stuckness by inviting our inner child to step into the healing process.

Attendees will leave with interventions including sensory play, meaningful object rituals, joyful embodiment exercises, and narrative re-authoring techniques to help when words alone fall short.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Identify how narrative therapy principles can be integrated with playful interventions to support clients experiencing emotional or therapeutic stuckness.
    2. Demonstrate at least three experiential techniques that invite clients and clinicians to reconnect with playful and creative inner parts.
    3. Apply Disney and Pixar character metaphors to externalize client narratives and facilitate re-authoring processes in clinical practice.
    4. Explain how externalization in narrative therapy can help clients reconnect with lost or hidden inner parts.
    5. Describe how narrative-based interventions can be adapted for use in team settings, supervision groups, or collaborative care environments.

Candace Morey

No One Hides Like Gaston: Exploring Toxic Masculinity and Male Loneliness Through An Inner Child Lens

Level: Intermediate

Candace Morey, LMHC, LCMHC, is the owner of Theraworks LLC in Massachusetts, helping clients break self-defeating patterns and find balance in work, relationships, and life. She’s drawn to the Disney conference because inner-child work played a pivotal role in her own healing journey.

Gaston, Disney’s embodiment of confidence, strength, and dominance, also represents something deeper and more insidious: the performance of masculinity as a defense against vulnerability. In this presentation, we’ll explore how the Gaston archetype mirrors the real-life epidemic of male loneliness, emotional suppression, and disconnection from self—often rooted in early developmental wounds.

Using the lens of inner child work, we’ll examine how boys are socialized to abandon emotional expression and connection in favor of control, stoicism, and dominance—qualities that may be rewarded culturally but wreak havoc relationally and internally. The result? A growing cohort of adult men who are high-functioning yet emotionally isolated, defensive, and deeply disconnected from their core needs.

As a mom raising a young boy, this is deeply personal for me. Ensuring my son feels confident and safe to be who he is, emotionally regulate himself, and express and hold healthy definitions of masculinity and femininity is an important goal as his parent.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Identify common psychological patterns and defense mechanisms in male clients that stem from early attachment wounds and socialized masculinity norms.
    2. Describe how toxic masculinity and emotional isolation contribute to the male loneliness epidemic through a developmental and cultural lens.
    3. Apply inner child–focused, trauma-informed interventions to help male clients reconnect with vulnerability, emotion, and authentic self-expression.

Cindi Miller

Not All Princesses Need Saving: When “Good Girls” Stop Performing and Start Living Authentically

Level: Intermediate

Cindi Miller, MS, LMHC (IN), LCMHC (NC), is the owner of Over Perfect Counseling, LLC in Fort Wayne, IN, providing person-centered therapy for athletes and high performers to foster well-being, resilience, and confidence. A retired D1 athlete and former coach, she helps athletes balance life and sport while embracing vulnerability, presence, and growth. Despite her jokes about Disney, Cindi is excited to speak at Clinically Ever After because she LOVES Disney movies!

What happens when the ‘good girl’ stops performing—and starts telling the truth.

Most of us were taught how to be “good” – how to sit still, be polite, please others, and not be seen. We got praised for being low-maintenance and easy to love. We learned to be small so we wouldn’t be “too much.” But under all that? There was someone else. Someone louder, freer, more curious and alive. She never disappeared. She just went into quiet hiding.

This presentation is for therapists who want to reconnect with that voice both in themselves and help their clients do the same. Through storytelling, creative prompts, and honest conversation, we’ll explore what gets socialized out of young girls, how that shows up in adulthood, and what it means to unlearn the rules we were handed.

Using familiar stories (like Moana, Merida, Mulan, and Ariel), we’ll name the parts of ourselves that relate to those themes. The parts that continue to hear the old shame scripts of our childhood and give them a new voice. You’ll leave with fresh language, tangible prompts, and a deeper connection to the “wild one” your clients are often aching to find.

Because you weren’t born to be good.

  • Learning Objectives:​

    1. Identify three ways early socialization (especially in girls) leads to internalized self-silencing and emotional suppression, and describe how these patterns manifest in adult lients’ identity formation, boundaries, and self-worth.
    2. Describe the clinical value of integrating imagination, narrative, and embodiment into inner child or parts-based therapeutic work.
    3. Apply storytelling and metaphor-based reflection tools (e.g., character exploration, narrative prompts) to help clients name, validate, and reconnect with parts of themselves that were once shamed, ignored, or hidden.

Danielle Massi

Mirror, Mirror:  onfronting the Therapist’s Shadow to Strengthen Clinical Work

Level: Beginner

Danielle Massi is a best-selling author, international keynote speaker, and shadow work expert helping individuals embrace their shadows and transform their lives. Speaking at the Disney conference is a full-circle moment for her, honoring the parts of herself she once felt unseen and sharing the power of inner-child healing with fellow therapists.

At the heart of every therapist lies a hidden influence: the inner child. In Once Upon a Shadow: Healing the Inner Child to Transform Your Practice, this presentation invites clinicians to courageously explore the unconscious parts of themselves that quietly shape their work—especially the wounded inner child who still seeks safety, approval, or control.

While therapists are trained to hold space for others, many have yet to confront how their own unmet childhood needs, early attachment wounds, and subconscious coping strategies show up in the therapy room. This keynote reveals how unacknowledged inner child dynamics can manifest as over-identifying with clients, avoiding conflict, rescuing behaviors, or struggling with boundaries.

Through a blend of personal narrative, Jungian psychology, and clinical insight, this talk encourages therapists to turn inward—not with judgment, but with curiosity and compassion. Attendees will learn how integrating their inner child’s voice fosters deeper presence, sharper intuition, and a more authentic therapeutic relationship.

By embracing the shadow and tending to their inner child, therapists can break the cycle of reenacting past patterns with clients and instead model what true healing looks like: self-awareness, self-trust, and inner wholeness.

This training offers more than insight—it’s an invitation to do the work we often ask of our clients. Because when therapists heal, everyone in the room heals with them.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Self-Awareness in Practice: Therapists will identify and analyze how their own shadow—unconscious biases, triggers, and blind spots—impactstherapeutic relationships and clinical utcomes, fostering greater self-awareness in practice.
    2. Shadow Integration Techniques: Participants will describe and apply practical tools and strategies—such as mindfulness, journaling, and peer consultation—to develop a ersonalized approach for integrating shadow work into their personal and professional growth.
    3. Modeling and Guiding Shadow Work: Therapists will demonstrate how to model vulnerability and self-reflection in a clinical setting, and formulate ways to create a safe environment that supports clients in recognizing and integrating their shadow selves as part of the healing process.​

Dr. Dominique Pritchett

Bibbidi, Bobbidi, Booked: Harnessing the Power of Storytelling to Enhance Professional Impact

Level: Beginner to Intermediate

Dr. Dominique Pritchett, PhD, MSW, is a clinical psychologist, social worker, and founder of Speak to the Soul™, Beloved Wellness Center™, and Space for Sistas®, helping individuals and organizations cultivate wellness and personal growth. She’s excited to speak at the Disney conference as a space for therapists to explore creativity, expand their professional opportunities, and let their inner child shine.

Why? Because a story isn’t just powerful—it’s profitable.

At every masquerade ball, there comes a moment when the masks comes off and a deeper story is revealed. In this transformative and interactive session, therapists will explore the “masks” they’ve worn in personal and professional spaces while serving as changemakers. Using a narrative and solution-focused lens, participants will tap into the magic of storytelling to get organized and booked as speakers to prevent burnout.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Explain the Unmask Method™ for self and social awareness.
    2. Recognize how common “masks” impact confidence and role clarity.
    3. Identify how storytelling supports therapeutic work and professional identity.
    4. Develop a story-based speaking framework aligned with clinical practice.

Jen Agee

The Force Within: Empowering Your Inner Child For Mastery

Level: Intermediate

Jennifer Agee, LCPC, is an entrepreneur, author, retreat host, and internationally recognized speaker who helps therapists and purpose-driven entrepreneurs move from burnout to aligned, abundant careers. She wants to speak at the Disney conference because supporting therapists in thriving is her deepest why.

Join us on an epic journey inspired by Disney’s Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy, where we explore how inner child wounds influence your entrepreneurial success. Much like our favorite heroes, entrepreneurs often face internal battles. We often encounter struggles around people pleasing, setting firm boundaries, persistent feelings of inadequacy, healthy money mindsets, overwhelming self-doubt, deep-seated fears, and difficulty adapting to the unknown. Through playful and powerful inner child work, this training guides mental health professionals in identifying and developing tools to healing these wounds, unleashing their innate strengths, and cultivating resilience. Embrace the tenacity and empowerment found within your “force,” and become the master of your entrepreneurial galaxy.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Participants will identify three common inner child wounds impacting entrepreneurial success and discuss strategies to effectively address and heal these wounds.
    2. Participants will learn and apply specific inner child healing techniques aimed at transforming people pleasing patterns, improving boundary setting skills, and overcoming feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt.
    3. Participants will develop actionable, strengths-based strategies for shifting their money mindset, reducing fear, and enhancing adaptability to better navigate entrepreneurial challenges and achieve sustained success

Libby Murdoch

Upon A Neural Pathway: Discover the Neurobiology of Imagination and Strategies for Creating Your Happily Ever After

Level: Beginner

Libby Murdoch, LPCC, CCTP-II, CTRTC, is a counselor, EMDR therapist, trainer, and published author from Cincinnati, OH, helping clients rewire their nervous systems and achieve transformative healing. She’s excited to speak at the Disney conference because it celebrates imagination, creativity, and inner-child work—values that align closely with her clinical and training approach.

What if imagination wasn’t just child’s play – but an effective brain-based tool for growth and healing? Research increasingly supports that imagination is one of our most powerful tools in the fight against trauma. In engaging and experiential workshop, we’ll break down how imaginative processes activate neural networks involved in memory, emotion, and belief – making it possible to rewire old patterns to go from stuck to storybook ending. You’ll gain new insights as we learn about the impact of environments, relationships and experiences on the story within all of us. You’ll leave with practical strategies to harness the power of imagination in shifting core beliefs, healing your inner child, regulating the nervous system and creating your very own “happily ever after”. And we’ll even explore how the World of Walt Disney intersects with these concepts; including, how feature films we watched growing up may have influenced our beliefs and how the stories and characters we fell in love with can be used as positive emotional resources.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Participants will be able to describe how the imagination can be used to harness the brain’s capacity for neurogenesis and neuroplasticity
    2. Participants will be able to identify how imagination can be used to reprogram negative beliefs and create reparative attachment experiences in addition to experiencing one intervention for regulating our inner child (Positive Trauma Resolution, Parts Work, Reframe for Relief)
    3. Participants will be able to apply two simple imagination-based interventions for regulating the nervous system and enhancing motivation for change. (Outer World Resources & Visualizing Positive Change)

Shaelene Kite

Side Effects May Include: Believing in Your Own Magic – From Spark to Lasting Change

Level: Intermediate

Shaelene Kite, LPC, DBT-LBC is the founder of Rebelmente, specializing in empowering therapists and group practice owners to confidently master DBT skills, grow thriving practices, and make a meaningful impact in their communities. As the creator of Clinically Ever After, Shaelene draws on her experiences at conferences and her love of Disney World to bring a fresh approach to professional development—blending connection, inspiration, and play without the dullness of traditional workshops. She designs events for clinicians who believe learning can be joyful, that meaningful connection matters, and that a little magic goes a long way in preventing burnout.

This keynote examines how professional socialization, scarcity beliefs, and systemic norms shape therapist identity, sustainability, and burnout risk. Through narrative and reflection, participants explore ethically grounded decision-making, the role of connection and community, and how re-engaging imagination can support counselor well-being and long-term clinical effectiveness.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Identify at least two ways systemic expectations, professional socialization, and internalized scarcity beliefs impact counselor professional identity, career sustainability, and risk for burnout.
    2. Differentiate between perceived professional limitations and ethically grounded decision-making when considering role expansion, specialization, or alternative practice models.
    3. Describe how connection, community, and reflective imagination function as protective factors that support counselor well-being as an ethical responsibility tied to competent and effective client care.

TJ Walsh

The Spell Breaker: Using Story and Imagination to Heal Shame and Reclaim the Self

Level: Intermediate

TJ Walsh is a Licensed Professional Counselor, psychotherapist, certified Clini-Coach®, artist, and higher education administrator who blends CBT, DBT, and narrative-based therapies with symbolic and playful approaches. He’s excited to speak at the Disney conference to explore how stories, movies, and play can serve as emotional mirrors and healing tools, helping clinicians reawaken the inner child and return to heart-led therapy—a full-circle moment honoring the child in him who still believes healing can begin by going down the rabbit hole.

Shame is like a spell. It silences, shrinks, and severs us from our wholeness. But story and imagination are powerful tools for healing. Kinda like pixidust for our souls.

In this experiential workshop, participants will explore how internalized messages shaped by shame and early relationships can be transformed through metaphor, expression, and therapeutic storytelling. Using symbolic language, somatic awareness, and guided reflection, participants will begin to rewrite the narratives that no longer serve them and reclaim connection to their authentic self.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Identify at least one internalized shame-based narrative that impacts self-concept and relational dynamics.
    2. Describe the use of metaphor and narrative as clinical tools for exploring developmental and attachment wounds.
    3. Demonstrate one or more expressive arts interventions for processing shame and reclaiming a compassionate inner narrative.
    4. Demonstrate attunement-based group sharing techniques to foster safety and connection in a therapeutic or educational setting.
    5. Develop an individualized, symbolic statement (or “spell-breaker”) to support continued self-compassion and integration post-workshop.

Yunetta Smith

The Wound of the Villain: Rewire Vengeance, Discover Vulnerability

Level: Intermediate

Yunetta Smith is an international speaker, mental health consultant, therapist, EMDR trainer, and owner of Spring Forth Counseling in Tennessee, helping clinicians and organizations prevent burnout and thrive. Why am I so excited to speak at the Clinically Ever After Conference? Easy—because Shaelene is one of my besties, and anything she creates is guaranteed to be magical.

Every great Disney story has a villain, yet behind every villain is an origin story shaped by wounds, misunderstandings, and survival. This session explores how the behaviors we label as harsh, guarded, or vengeful often mirror the same childhood wounds and nervous system adaptations we see in some of Disney’s most iconic characters. What looks like defensiveness or intensity is often protection learned early and carried quietly into adulthood.

Attendees will examine how invisible wounds influence identity, emotional expression, and the way individuals move through the world. By viewing these patterns through the REWIRE framework, we will break down how early experiences shape the narratives people adopt about who they need to be in order to stay safe, be respected, or maintain control. This lens helps clinicians and leaders cultivate compassion, lower defensiveness, and create space for authentic transformation.

The session will also highlight practical, trauma informed strategies that support regulation and help individuals shift from reactive patterns toward more grounded and empowered responses. These tools are designed to help people step out of the storyline of vengeance and step into the possibility of vulnerability, growth, and connection.

Using a blend of neuroscience, storytelling, and Disney inspired insight, this presentation encourages participants to reconsider villains not just as a destructive forces but as a signpost pointing to unhealed chapter.s With the right support, even the darkest origin story can become a pathway to emotional clarity, healthier relationships, and a more cohesive sense of self.

  • Learning Objectives:

    1. Identify the role of early trauma and nervous system adaptations in the development of protective behaviors often labeled as “villainous,” and apply this understanding to increase compassion for self and clients.
    2. Describe the REWIRE framework as a tool for recognizing and integrating shadow aspects of identity, including dysregulated emotional responses and internalized survival narratives.
    3. Demonstrate at least two trauma-informed strategies that promote nervous system regulation and support the reintegration of disowned or exiled parts of self into a cohesive therapeutic identity.

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