2025 Conference Speakers
🌟 Speaker Spotlight:
James Childress, CPA
Future-Proofing the Business of Mental Health Private Practice: Building a Practice that Wins for You, Your Team, and Your Clients
Bio:
James Childress, CPA, is the President of CAC Advisors, Treasurer of the Rocky Mountain Family Therapy Network, Trustee of the Wyoming Society of CPAs, and Director of Connections for Independent Living. Known as “the accountant for therapists,” James and his team specialize in helping practices manage their finances, plan for predictable growth, and achieve their entrepreneurial goals. His proactive approach has helped many clinicians double their practices in under three years through the power of accounting, data analysis, guidance, and financial forecasting. James lives with his partner and their two bossy cats in what he fondly calls “the town of Wyoming.”
Key Takeaways:
Learn actionable strategies to align your internal and external environments—reducing risk and guiding long-term decisions.
Discover how to transform “organic growth” into strategic growth—and why this year is the time to make it happen.
Implement cash flow strategies that most small-to-medium practices overlook, but that can make the difference between stagnation and success.
🌟 Speaker Spotlight:
Pamela Peters, MFTC
Psychedelics: What to Do When They Show Up in Your Office
Bio:
Pamela Peters, MFTC, runs a private practice in Denver (with online services across Colorado) and is passionate about supporting clients in consensually non-monogamous, open, and alternative relationships, as well as those navigating affair recovery or new ways of connecting. She incorporates ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) with individuals and couples, drawing on decades of experience with psychedelics for transformational healing since 1991. Pamela brings both clinical expertise and lived experience to her work, offering a grounded, compassionate approach to exploring alternative realities in therapeutic practice.
Session Summary:
Psychedelics are increasingly part of clients’ healing journeys, whether through clinical use or personal exploration—and they often come up in the therapy room. Drawing from her work with couples using ketamine-assisted psychotherapy as well as couples engaging with psychedelics at home, Pamela will highlight the ways these substances can impact relational dynamics. Participants will explore how to support safer practices, respond effectively to clients’ experiences, and know when referral to psychedelic therapy might be the best clinical option.
Key Takeaways:
Identify when ketamine-assisted psychotherapy might offer benefits for couples.
Understand how MDMA, psilocybin, and ketamine—used inside or outside therapy—can impact couple and family therapy.
Learn strategies to support clients through challenging psychedelic experiences.
🌟 Speaker Spotlight:
Robert A. Lees, J.D.
Ethics Hot Topics: Legal Perspectives for Today’s Therapists
Bio:
Robert A. Lees, J.D., is a nationally recognized attorney and consultant with over 30 years of experience advising mental health professionals. As managing partner of the law firm Robert A. Lees & Associates, his practice focuses exclusively on representing mental health providers and agencies. Robert has served as general counsel to multiple state and national professional associations and is widely known for his expertise in professional licensing, ethics, and practice law. He has presented at conferences nationwide, providing clinicians with practical, accessible guidance on navigating the legal aspects of therapy practice.
Session Summary:
We’re thrilled to welcome Robert A. Lees to the 2025 RMFTN Conference for an engaging session on current ethics “hot topics” in the therapy field. This interactive session will provide updates on the most pressing legal and ethical issues facing mental health professionals today, with time for your questions. To ensure the content is directly relevant, we invite you to share your input in our quick Hot Topics Poll, which will help guide the focus of this presentation..
Possible Key Takeaways (being actively shaped by attendee input at the link above):
Understand 2025 updates in ethics and mental health law that impact clinical practice.
Explore legal considerations around blurred professional boundaries, including social media presence.
Learn how HIPAA and confidentiality requirements intersect with today’s tech-driven therapy world.
Gain clarity on emerging ethical/legal challenges and how to protect both yourself and your clients.
🎟️ Conference Registration
Registration for the 2025 RMFTN Conference includes access to a full day of inspiring speakers, networking opportunities, and rooftop views at Lowry Conference Center.
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$75
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$100
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Members and Non-Members: $50