🌱 We’re Building Something New — And You’re Invited Early
Texoma Specialty Counseling & Wellness is launching a Quarterly Lunch & Learn Networking Series designed to bring together mental health professionals, healthcare providers, and wellness advocates who want to connect, learn, and strengthen the care we provide in our community. Think meaningful conversation, relevant education, good food, and zero awkward networking vibes.
Our first event is planned for March, and this page is your inside track to getting involved.
🧠What This Is
The Lunch & Learn Series is a quarterly, in‑person networking and continuing education event for professionals who care deeply about mental health and whole‑person wellness.
Each event includes:
A one‑hour continuing education presentation
Networking with local professionals across disciplines
Lunch provided by a local sponsor
A CE certificate for eligible licenses
This is intentionally small, relational, and high‑value. Expect around 10 attendees per event, allowing for real conversations and connection—not name‑tag chaos.
🤝 Who Should Attend
This series is open to professionals and advocates across the mental health and healthcare spectrum, including:
LPCs, LCSWs, LMFTs
PMHNPs, psychiatrists, and physicians
Coaches and wellness professionals
Healthcare providers and allied professionals
Mental health advocates and community leaders
If mental health is part of your work—or your mission—you belong in the room.
đź“š Continuing Education Details
We will provide continuing education certificates for eligible licenses, including LPC, LCSW, PMHNP, and related credentials.
Specific CE approvals and topics will be announced as speakers are confirmed. Our goal is to offer practical, relevant education you can actually use—not fluff you forget by dinner.
đź“š Training Dates and Topics
We seek to offer a variety of trainings to help with LPC, LCSW, and QMHP licensure requirements. Topics should seek to develop our skills as ethical, compassionate, and culturally competent mental health professionals.
Friday September - Topic: Feeding Recovery with Eating Competence
Learning ObjectivesBy the end of this training, participants will be able to:
Describe the core principles of the Satter Eating Competence Model and explain how they differ from traditional weight-focused or prescriptive nutrition approaches.
Identify the four domains of eating competence and recognize how deficits in each domain contribute to disordered eating, chronic dieting, and eating disorder presentations.
Name the 2 necessary components for long-term eating competence
Apply an eating competence framework to clinical assessment by identifying biopsychosocial factors and eating behaviors that maintain food and body distress.
Carrie Lutter, RD, LPC, with Sante Center is joining us to chat substance use disorders and nutrition. Carrie Lutter, LCSW-S, RDN is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, and Certified Enneagram Practitioner with more than 25 years of experience helping individuals and families develop healthier relationships with food, themselves, and others. She integrates psychotherapy and nutrition through a weight-inclusive, biopsychosocial approach, drawing on specialized training in the Satter Eating Competence and Family Feeding Dynamics Models, as well as evidence-based therapies including CBT, DBT, ACT, ERP, IFS, mindfulness, shame resiliency, and Brainspotting.
Carrie also currently serves as Regional Marketing Coordinator for Sante Center for Healing, where she collaborates with healthcare professionals throughout North Texas to improve access to compassionate, evidence-based treatment for substance use disorders, trauma, compulsive sex disorders, process addictions, secondary eating disorders, and co-occurring mental health conditions. She is passionate about educating clinicians on practical interventions that promote sustainable recovery, resilience, and whole-person wellness.
In addition to her clinical and professional education work, Carrie is a frequent speaker on Eating Competence, family feeding dynamics, eating disorder recovery, and the Enneagram as a tool for self-awareness and therapeutic growth. Her engaging, practical presentations equip clinicians with evidence-based strategies they can immediately integrate into their work with clients.
UPCOMING TRAINING DATES
June 18: Substance Use Disorders and Eating Competence
November TBD
THANK YOU TO OUR LUNCH SPONSOR - SANTE CENTER FOR HEALING
About Santé Center for Healing
For more than 30 years, Santé Center for Healing has been a trusted leader in the treatment of trauma underlying compulsive sexual behavior disorder, substance use disorders, process addictions, secondary eating disorders, and co-occurring mental health conditions. Located in Argyle, Texas, Santé provides a full continuum of evidence-based care for adults, including medical detoxification, residential treatment, intensive outpatient (IOP), and outpatient services. With an interdisciplinary team of experienced clinicians, Santé is clinician owned and committed to treating the whole person and their family system, build lasting recovery through compassionate, individualized care.
A recent Google review from LaMarr S is a comprehensive summary of the special place Santé is:
“Santé Center for Healing saved my life. I spent 91 days there, and I can honestly say they were the best 91 days I have spent in the last 10 years. I have not felt this clear, this alive, or this connected to myself since I was 21 years old — and now I am middle-aged. Santé taught me who I was. Not just who I thought I was, not just who my addiction told me I was, but who I actually am underneath the fear, shame, secrets, and survival patterns. I learned how to be honest. I learned how to be humble. I learned how to be seen. I learned how to let other people help me. For the first time in a very, very long time, I made real friendships. I healed relationships with men. I found a new respect for women.
I learned how to be part of a community again. I learned that recovery is not something I can do alone — and that trusting others is not weakness. It is wisdom. Before Santé, my addiction had ground my life down into a tiny pinpoint of vision. Everything felt small, secretive, isolated, and hopeless. Now my life feels bigger — visibly, emotionally, spiritually, and experientially bigger. I am still recovering, but I no longer feel like I have been left flapping in the wind. I feel genuinely prepared. I have a foundation for what I believe will be a lifelong recovery. I know what success looks like because I experienced it there. I know what progress looks like because I made it there. I know what humility looks like because I had to practice it there. I no longer have to live with secrets. I am learning how to live as an open book. The routine at Santé was stabilizing. The facilities were clean. The food was good — be prepared to gain a couple pounds, LOL. The activities, sports, basketball, volleyball, and especially the ropes course were powerful parts of my healing. The ropes course was heroic for me. It taught me how to trust, how to work with a team, and how to do things I thought were impossible on my own — only to discover they were possible with support. Those lessons were not just taught once. They were repeated over and over again until they became part of me. The clinical staff is world-class. The people there genuinely care. My primary therapist and case manager, Lisa, was outstanding — truly international-class. She was wise, direct, compassionate, and deeply skilled. Quite simply, she was amazing. Jumping for my coin was one of the most courageous things I have ever done. That moment represented more than completion. It represented a new life. I am so deeply grateful for Santé Center for Healing. If you want help, and you are truly ready to receive it, Santé is the place to go. It is where you go to find the foundation for a new life. Thank you, Santé.”
🎤 Call for Speakers
We are actively looking for engaging speakers who want to teach, share, and spark conversation.
Speaker details:
Presentation length: 1 hour
We seek to pay our speakers with the help of sponsors and a training stipend.
Audience: Small, engaged group of local professionals
Topics: Open and evolving—clinical, wellness‑based, interdisciplinary, or innovative approaches to mental health care
We are also welcoming speaker sponsors for future dates.
If you’ve been wanting a low‑pressure way to share your expertise, this is it.
Interested in speaking or sponsoring a speaker?
🥗 Lunch Sponsorship Opportunities
Each event includes lunch provided by a Lunch Sponsor.
SEPTEMBER LUNCH SPONSORS: Sante Center
NOVEMBER LUNCH SPONSORS: Equip
Lunch sponsor details:
Provides lunch for approximately 10-15 attendees
Opportunity to introduce your business briefly at the event
Recognition on our website, email updates, and at the event
This is a great fit for:
Medical practices
Wellness brands
Private practices
Community‑focused businesses
Want to sponsor a lunch?
📬 Stay in the Loop
This event is just getting started, and we’re building it intentionally and transparently.
If you want to:
Be notified when event registration opens
Get updates on speakers and topics
Receive weekly reminders and announcements
Be first in line as this series grows
Join our Lunch & Learn email list.
💬 Why We’re Doing This
Mental health work doesn’t happen in isolation—and neither should the people doing it.
This series exists to:
Strengthen collaboration across professions
Make continuing education more accessible and enjoyable
Build real relationships, not just referral lists
Support the professionals who support everyone else
We believe learning should feel energizing, networking should feel human, and mental health deserves a seat at the table—preferably with lunch.
🚀 What’s Next
Our first Lunch & Learn is scheduled for March, with details coming soon. Join our newsletter and be the first to know when we have details and you will receive reminders.
This page will be updated regularly as speakers, sponsors, and registration details are finalized. If you’re even a little curious, get on the email list and stay connected.
We’re excited to grow this with you—one table, one conversation, and one hour of learning at a time.