Tools of the Trades Conference
This conference attracts thoughtful, values-driven creatives: artists, designers, writers, therapists, and independent professionals who want to share their work more confidently without betraying their integrity, their nervous system, or their sense of self. It’s a space that values substance over performance and depth over hype.
My Session: Getting Comfortable Being Seen: Tools for Creative Introverts
In my 90-minute workshop, I’ll be exploring why visibility can feel so threatening for creative introverts—and how to work with that discomfort rather than trying to override it.
For many creatives, visibility doesn’t just trigger nerves or self-doubt. It activates deeper patterns: imposter syndrome, fear of exposure, old attachment wounds, perfectionism, and the internal pressure to “get it right” before showing up at all. Traditional advice often misses this entirely, pushing people to perform confidence instead of helping them build internal safety.
The Revolutionary Practice Summit
The Revolutionary Practice Summit is a 4 day summit exploring the integration of alternative therapeutic methods in practice. It brings together therapists, facilitators, and non-traditional practitioners to explore what’s actually working - the modalities that regulate the nervous system, support the spirit, and expand the definition of healing.
Doubt Yourself, Do It Anyway Summit 2026
The Doubt Yourself, Do It Anyway Summit is an annual event, and it isn’t another overcrowded conference in a fluorescent ballroom with speakers who are so boring that your eyes glaze over.
This summit is:
✨ Neurodivergent-affirming and accessible
✨Intimate, community-oriented, and made for real connection
✨Built around practical, implementable strategies (not fluff or bullshit)
✨Designed for therapists, helpers, and creatives who want more — sustainable
If you’re craving growth, clarity, and a community that finally “gets it,” this is the room you want to be in. Plus, you’ll get 9 NBCC CEs and be able to write this off as a business expense.
I’m presenting a discussion with my amazing friend and colleague, Gabrielle Juliano-Vilani called Color Outside the Lines: Reinventing Your Career (and Your Income) with Creativity.
This session invites therapists and healers to rethink what’s possible beyond the therapy hour. Through a blend of creative inquiry, expressive practices, and ethical strategy, participants will explore alternative income pathways that align with their values, strengths, and clinical scope. TJ Walsh and Gabrielle will guide attendees in identifying internal barriers to expansion, differentiating clinical from non-clinical offerings, and designing a personalized roadmap for a more spacious, creative, and sustainable professional future.
Clinically Ever After
A conference to help you deepen insight through imagination. A conference unlike any other, this event blends advanced clinical insight, playful imagination, and professional rejuvenation, all inside the most iconic, joy-inducing setting in the world. Whether you’re craving inspiration, meaningful connection, or a creative jolt to your work
—this experience was made for you.
REIMAGINE Virtual Summit
A 6-day virtual business intensive for therapists, coaches, and healers who are ready to break the mold.
We’re gathering a powerful mix of experts who have reimagined the way they work and do business, and are ready to share how they made it happen. People who have walked away from burnout, said no to hustle culture, and built holistic, values-driven businesses that support their lives.
Workshop: Emotional Alchemy for the Therapist’s Soul
Emotional Alchemy for the Therapist’s Soul is a 3-part experiential seminar for therapists, counselors, and healing professionals who want to tend to their own inner world between sessions. Through guided painting, reflective discussion, and psychoanalytic insight, we’ll explore how creative process can help you hold what you carry and return to the work with greater clarity and care. This is not about technique or making art for clients—it’s about making space for you. Come with paper, paint, and a willingness to see what’s waiting beneath the surface.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the stages of the Emotional Alchemy process (naming, holding, metabolizing, transmuting, integrating) and explain how each stage supports therapist self-reflection and emotional regulation.
2. Demonstrate the use of intuitive painting as a self-tending tool for processing emotional residue and preparing for clinical work.
3. Differentiate between cognitive reflection and embodied emotional processing, and discuss the role of image-making in accessing unconscious material.
4. Evaluate the impact of personal emotional states on therapeutic presence and plan creative self-care rituals to support ongoing clinical clarity.
5. Identify countertransference signals through reflective art-making and summarize how these insights can inform ethical and attuned therapeutic practice.
Note: since this seminar has a strong experiential component, participants will need to have some simple art supplies on hand. Nothing fancy—letter-sized paper (or a sketchpad), markers, crayons, paints if they want, etc. The main thing is that you have a few materials ready to engage with the creative process each week.