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The 2025 Hawaiʻi Behavioral Health and Wellness Convention

October 23 & 24, 2025


Please refer to this updated working version of the convention program and reach out to us with any corrections. We can't wait to see you in two weeks!



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Registration Information

Registration Includes:


30 Programs Offered Over Two Days


Four Concurrent Tracks


Renowned International, National and Local Experts


The Latest in Cutting-Edge Training and Information

Programs Available On-Demand for At Least 3 months Following the Event

Your registration gives you multiple ways to access the convention: In Person, via Zoom, and On Demand

* ALL with CEs! *


Convention registration also includes free access to pre- and post-convention trainings and cultural activities (information forthcoming)

Convention Program Highlights

If you're interested in Professional & Clinical Issues, check out these programs!

  • KEYNOTE: Oppression and Forced Compliance in the Current Political Climate: Resistance, Survivance and Hope
  • Town Hall on Associate Licensing Across Professions
  • Rising Together: Embracing Challenges and Opportunities on the Path to Inclusive Excellence and Belonging
  • Bridging Minds: Collaborative Care in Mental Health Assessment and Management
  • The Private Practice Playbook: Winning Strategies to Launch Your Mental Health Practice
  • Leveling Up: The Journey of Hawai‘i’s Next-Gen MFTs
  • INVITED: When Empathy is Lacking - Understanding Cluster B Personality Disorders and How to Treat Them
  • Regulate, Relate, Play: A Sensory-Informed Approach for Supporting Neurodiverse and Trauma-Impacted Clients
  • Integrating Cannabis Conversations: Growing Therapeutic Insight Around Cannabis & Mental Wellness


If you're interested in Culture, check out these programs!

  • KEYNOTE: ‘Ike and Mana‘o: How Ancestral Wisdom and Our Own Thoughts and Ideas Impact our Mental Health and the Care That We Provide
  • Breaking Through: Splintering the Bamboo Ceiling
  • Healthcare Across Cultures: Understanding and Communication When It Counts Most
  • Creating a Culture of Care: Learnings From a Case Study of the PATH Clinic
  • He Ho`omaka Hou Ana O` Puna
  • E Hoʻomau I Ka ʻIke Kūpuna (Continue the Knowledge of the Ancestors): Bridging Worlds in Treating Chronic Pain and Substance Use Disorder
  • KANU Theory to Transform Behavioral Healthcare: Mauliola Through Connection, Healing, Empowerment
  • Kūkauka’i: Interdependent, Compassionate, Culturally-Responsive, Trauma-Informed Care for Individuals with Autism in Hawai‘i


If you're interested in Stress & Self-Care, check out these programs!

  • INVITED: Caring for the Counselor: How to Stay Healthy and Effective While Doing Trauma-focused Therapies
  • Clinicians Anonymous: Facing our Fear of Treating Addiction
  • Planting Seeds of Hope: Cultivating Self Care for Sustainable Practice
  • Eustress and Resilience: Cultural Strategies for Regulating Stress and Building Strength
  • Rooting Relationships: Realigning Nature and Nurture in Outdoor Healing Programs


If you're interested in Children & Families, check out these programs!

  • Autism and ADHD: Treatments and Supports for Children and Families
  • Building Safety and Hope: Supporting Youth at Risk for Suicide
  • It Doesn’t Have to Get Ugly: Improving Outcomes for Families in Transition
  • Rooted in Relationship: Culturally Sustaining, Dyadic Caregiver–Child Approaches to Intervention for Hawai‘i’s Families
  • Navigating Perinatal & Reproductive Mental Health
  • Interventions for Parents and Children in the Hawaii Family Court (IPCFC)


If you're interested in Couples, check out these programs!

  • From the Couch to the Bedroom: Using Evidence-Based Interventions to Address Couples’ Relationship Concern's
  • Stop Dyeing Red Flags Pink! Recognizing Red Flags to Reduce Inter-Partner Violence

Hardship Discounts and an Opportunity to Donate


Members experiencing financial hardship may be eligible for a partial or full convention subsidy. Please contact us at hpaexec@gmail.com for more information. Members can also support these efforts by clicking HERE to make a donation. 

Hawaiʻi Psychological Association

Hawaiian Islands Association for Marriage and Family Therapy

National Association of Social Workers – Hawaiʻi Chapter

Hawaiʻi Counselors Association

are pleased to announce the 5th jointly sponsored

Hawaiʻi Behavioral Health & Wellness Convention

Ala Moana Hotel

410 Atkinson Drive

Honolulu, HI 96814


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The Hawai'i Psychological Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Hawai'i Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The Hawaiian Islands Association for Marriage and Family Therapy is authorized to provide continuing education to Hawai'i licensed marriage and family therapists. This program is approved by the National Association of Social Workers – Hawai'i Chapter NASWHI-CEP-001 for Social Work continuing education contact hours. The Hawai'i Counselors Association (HCA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 2012. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. HCA is responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Sent to all collaborating organizations by:

Hawaiʻi Psychological Association

 P.O. Box 833

Honolulu, HI 96808

(808) 521 8995

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