Join us for our 5th annual Christian body image conference for teen girls and women!

Join us VIRTUALLY for a day of worship and discussing the topic of body image from a biblical worldview. We will hear from licensed professional counselors, registered dietitians, authors, podcasters, dads, husbands and clients all sharing truth and encouragement for how we as believers can wrestle well with body image concerns.

This conference was held in-person on October 14th in Dallas and recorded for those wanting to attend, but not local to Dallas or unable to attend on the 14th.

Upon registering for virtual access, you will receive a link with the recorded conference and will be able to watch all of the conference material, at your own pace.

4 CEUs are provided for professionals who attend the conference in-person

Professionals who register for the recorded event will not be eligible for CEUs.

Conference Breakdown:

• Worship & Welcome

• Rachael Gilbert, author of Image Restored and host of the popular podcast, Real Talk with Rachael will be this year’s keynote speaker!

• Podcast Mash-Up: hear from some of your favorite Christian podcaster’s as they gather on stage to discuss body image concerns from a biblical world view

• The Heart of a Mother: Personal Testimony

• Men’s Panel: join our group of men this year as they discuss women’s body image issues from a father’s, husband’s and male therapist’s point-of-view

• Teen break-out session

• The Tale of a Runner: Personal Testimony

Speaker Line-up:

• Rachael Gilbert, MFT, LPC-Associate*

Rachael Gilbert, MMFT, is an author, EMDR-trained therapist, owner of BBC Health, and host of the popular podcast Real Talk with Rachael. She combines her clinical expertise and personal experience to help women overcome fear and insecurity to walk confidently in their God-given dreams. Her interactive book, Image Restored, was released on March 7, 2023.

Rachael enjoys the great outdoors on hiking adventures with her family. She resides in Roanoke, Texas, with her husband, Matt, three children, and a growing herd of animals. Learn more at www.rachaelgilbert.com and connect with Rachael on Instagram.*Supervised by Mary Dainty, LPC-S

• Brittany Braswell, MS, RDN, LD

Brittany is a Registered Dietitian, food freedom coach, and host of The Joy-Filled Eater Podcast.  She specializes in the treatment of disordered eating and negative body image, providing Christ-centered body image and food freedom coaching to Christian women who are ready to break free from the bondage of food guilt and body shame.

She’s been a featured speaker at conferences, universities, and virtual stages as an educator and advocate to help women ditch food and body obsession so they can overcome the lies of diet culture and rediscover their God-given worth and value.

Brittany and her husband, Chris have been happily married for more than 10 years and live with their 2 precious children in the heart of Alabama.

• Heather Creekmore, Christian Body Image Coach

Heather Creekmore writes and speaks hope to thousands of women each week inspiring them to stop comparing and start living. Heather's Compared to Who? podcast is aimed specifically at helping Christian women overcome body image and comparison issues. Her first book—also titled—Compared to Who? encourages women to uncover the spiritual root of body image issues and find freedom. Her book, The Burden of Better: How a Comparison-Free Life Leads to Joy, Peace, and Rest, offers women a journey into the depths of God's grace to find a way off the treadmill of constant comparison. Heather has been featured on Fox News, Huff Post, Morning Dose, Church Leaders, For Every Mom, along with dozens of other shows and podcasts. But she's best recognized from her appearance as a contestant on the Netflix hit show, Nailed It. Heather and her fighter-pilot-turned-pastor husband, Eric have four children and live in Austin, Texas. 

• Kristen Hatton, LPC-Associate*

Kristen Hatton is a counselor and author who is passionate about helping families. She is the author of Parenting Ahead, Get Your Story Straight, Face Time, and The Gospel-Centered Life in Exodus for Students, and founder/manager of the Redemptive Parenting Instagram account. Kristen lives in Dallas with her pastor-husband, Pete. Together they have three young adult children and a son-in-law. *Supervized by Kari Stainback, LPC-S

• Sallye Clarke, LPC

Sallye was born and raised right here in Dallas, TX. She received her Bachelor’s in Health and Psychology from Texas A&M University and earned her Masters in Biblical Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary in 2018. During her summers in college, Sallye was a camp counselor at T Bar M: Camp Travis. This is where her passion for counseling children and adolescents was first ignited.

Sallye spent her time in graduate school counseling men, women and children at the Dallas Life Foundation and at a private practice working with couples. Most recently, Sallye has worked at an eating disorder treatment facility serving as the child and adolescent intensive outpatient therapist. She has experience working with anxiety, depression, eating disorders, crisis management, trauma, perfectionism, emotion regulation, child and adolescent behavior concerns, parenting and underlying mental health issues.

Sallye finds it a joy helping others find hope in the midst of their pain and believes that healing happens within the context of relationships. She strives to create a warm, non-judgmental environment that encourages clients to gain awareness of themselves. She is passionate about meeting people right where they are and believes that all people have it within themselves the capacity for growth, change and joy.

Personally, Sallye loves spending time with her husband, family and traveling. She enjoys going on walks around her neighborhood and exploring new restaurants around town.

• Calvin Burns, LPC

Calvin has been a therapist for about four years and working in the field of counseling has been a dream of his for well over twenty years in the making. Calvin’s counseling experience has come from working with a wide variety of therapeutic settings. These have included; private practice, intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization, residential, and inpatient facilities that served a variety of mental health needs.

Through Calvin’s personal experience in counseling as a child, he began to see the impact that mental health care could have on an individual. And it was then that Calvin began to think that he wanted to extend the beneficial care that he had received to others one day.

After graduating from Lake Highlands high school in Dallas, Calvin went to Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, to earn a BA in Psychology and a minor in Human Development and Family Studies. This achievement was an exciting first step towards beginning his career as a counselor. After graduating, Calvin returned home to Dallas, Texas, and achieved a master’s degree in counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary.

Calvin’s counseling specialties include disordered eating, addictive behaviors, depression, anxiety, parenting support, adolescents/emerging adults, and couple’s counseling. However, Calvin is also comfortable offering counseling to a wide variety of mental health needs that extend beyond this list. One of the unique gifts that Calvin brings to the therapeutic space is his unwavering hope for others. This hope is something that drives his practice of counseling and how he cares for those he works with. When a person’s life is supplemented with support from a mental health professional, Calvin is confident that each individual has the potential to overcome or endure any difficult obstacle someone may be facing. Throughout his time in various therapeutic settings, Calvin has seen time and time again that people can change, and he firmly believes that stories can be rewritten.