LDS CAPA Fall Conference 2025
Join us at 6pm the evening before the main conference begins (October 1, 2025) for our Pre-Conference Ethics Session. Event registration available with full conference registration.
“50 Years Together: Honoring the Past, Looking to the Future”
October 2-3, 2025
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Event Details
Come celebrate 50 Years
Join us for two days full of networking with like-minded professionals, attend a variety of classes (up to 17 CEU’s available) and participate in honoring our amazing past presidents.
We’re thrilled to welcome Sister Reyna Aburto as one of this year’s keynote speakers. Click her image to explore her full bio and see why this is a session you won’t want to miss.
Pre-Conference Ethics Session also available October 1, 2025 at 6pm
Reyna Aburto was born in Nicaragua and is married to Carlos Aburto from Mexico. They live in Orem, Utah, and have three children and three grandchildren.
Reyna studied Industrial Engineering in Nicaragua and holds a degree in Computer Science from Utah Valley University. She has worked in the language industry for more than 30 years and owns a translation business with her husband. She now works as an instructor and coordinator at the Utah Valley Institute of Religion.
She has served as the Second Counselor in the General Relief Society Presidency, as a member of the Primary General Board, and in different callings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She currently serves on the Correlation Materials Evaluation Committee in Church Headquarters.
Reyna is a member of several governing boards. She is the author of Reaching for the Savior (Acudamos al Salvador, in Spanish), She is a co-host in the Anda conmigo podcast from the Institute of Religion and a co-host of the Consecrating Your Life podcast with her daughter Elena.
Why Attend?
Find support, collaboration and strength in numbers as you interact with and learn from like-minded peers who also value an LDS-friendly approach to mental health.
The LDS CAPA conference is the perfect opportunity to earn your CEU credits! Join us for classes on a variety of subjects including our Pre-Conference Ethics session being held on October 1st.
Expand your expertise in a variety of ways by participating in our exceptional line up of classes, keynote speakers, and round table discussions.
Featured Speakers
Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is an LDS relationship and sexuality coach with a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. Her teaching and coaching focus on helping LDS individuals and couples achieve greater satisfaction and passion in their emotional and sexual relationships.
In addition to her private practice, Dr. Finlayson-Fife has created five empowering and highly-reviewed online courses. Each course was designed to give LDS individuals and couples the tools requisite to creating healthier lives and stronger intimate relationships. Dr. Finlayson-Fife also offers many workshops and retreats where she teaches these life-changing principles in person.
Dr. Finlayson-Fife is a frequent guest on LDS-themed podcasts on the subjects of sexuality, relationships, mental health, and faith. She is also the creator and host of Room for Two, a popular sex and intimacy coaching podcast.”
Mark Chamberlain is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Draper and Layton, Utah. He is the author or coauthor of several books including Willpower Is Not Enough: Why We Don’t Succeed at Change and Wanting More: The Challenge of Enjoyment in the Age of Addiction. He graduated with a doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Brigham Young University and worked for a variety of mental health agencies before launching his private practice.
I have a doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy (DMFT), currently I own a mental health clinic, The EFT Counseling and Education Center with locations in northern and southern Utah. I am also a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Supervisor, and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy Supervisor. I train therapists of all disciplines, including licensed therapists in using the model of EFT and also those seeking licensure. The topic of my presentation is based on my newly published book, Conquering Your Inner Critic (published by Deseret Book, and BYU Religious Studies Center), and is useful for the professional and the clients whom they serve.
Janene Pack recently moved to Utah from Virginia where she had a thriving practice working with adolescents, parents, adults, and families, and has continued the same work in the Salt Lake area. Janene is passionate about adolescent development and the ongoing developmental process into adulthood. She has been working with adolescents, young adults, and parents for the last 15 years. She received her master’s degree in counseling from the University of New Mexico, where she completed a dual program to be licensed to work privately and in private and local school systems. She gained extensive experience in the private sector and in schools counseling adolescents and young adults, and their parents about Generational Differences, Anxiety, Depression, Suicidal Ideation, Neurodivergent Disorders, Emotional Disabilities, Trauma, and Grief. Janene uses a variety of effective psychotherapy techniques to support clients in building Cognitive Behavioral Therapy skills to better understand themselves and connect with the people around them. Janene’s therapeutic focus has expanded to treating individuals and families experiencing relationship trauma and grief and using physiological and cognitive-informed therapies to process intrapersonal and interpersonal awareness.
Janene has realized from personal experience how important the therapeutic relationship is in supporting, and challenging clients to gain insight from their own life to develop proactive life skills. Janene’s particular passions are providing parent consultations to improve parent and adolescent relationships, psychoeducational presentations, writing informational journal articles, running processing groups for adolescents and young adults, and creating activities to assist clients in sharing inner thoughts and feelings to gain a wholistic sense of self. When she is not running around with her husband and four children, you can find her researching and planning her next travel adventure, or she is curled up reading a good book!
Brent Scharman is a licensed psychologist with a distinguished career spanning over three decades at LDS Family Services, where he served in both clinical and administrative roles, including as Assistant Commissioner. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from the University of Utah and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Brigham Young University. Brent has held leadership positions as president of both the Utah Psychological Association and the Association of Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists, and chaired the LDS Church’s Missionary Mental Health Committee. His ecclesiastical service includes assignments such as bishop of the maximum-security unit at the Utah State Prison. In retirement, he has remained active through writing, family history, and volunteer work with various organizations. Brent was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is married to Janet Lyn Samuelson. Together, they are parents and stepparents to ten children and grandparents to 37 grandchildren.
Jeffrey S. Reber, Ph.D., LPC, is professor of psychology at the University of West Georgia, a fellow of the American Psychological Association, a licensed professional counselor, and the founder of Relational Counseling and Consulting Services. He is a leader in the fields of relational and theistic psychology and psychotherapy. Dr. Reber is the author of Are We Special? The Truth and the Lie about God’s Chosen People (Deseret Book) and The Paradox of Perfection: How Embracing our Imperfection Perfects Us (Crosslink), as well as more than 40 articles and book chapters that are informed by his uniquely theistic and relational perspective. He is a nationally and internationally recognized speaker who is sought after for his expertise on treating growing societal issues and concerns, like narcissism and perfectionism, from a relational perspective that interfaces faith and psychology. Dr. Reber and his wife have four children and live in Carrollton where he maintains an active therapy practice.
