44th Annual F.E. Woodall Spring Conference for the Helping Professions March 27, 2026
Conference Details
The 44th Annual Woodall Conference will be held in-person in Ewing Hall on the campus of Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi.
About the Woodall Conference
The annual F. E. Woodall Conference, hosted by Delta State University’s Robert E. Smith School of Nursing and Health Sciences, serves both students and professionals by providing essential information, support, and networking opportunities to helping professionals in the region. The conference offers professionals in a variety of helping fields the opportunity to attend interesting and informative workshops at a nominal cost. The conference began in 1981, under the direction of Dr. Fred E. Woodall, a previous and highly admired professor.
Keynote speakers have included seven American Counseling Association Presidents, an international innovator/inventor, and other nationally recognized leaders in the field of counseling. Students and professionals spend the day selecting from over 30 peer-reviewed, continuing education content sessions. Presenters are often faculty and students from Delta State and other universities as well as leading professionals in the field. Advanced students have the opportunity to present with their faculty members.
Our Delta Sigma Upsilon Honor Society, Chi Sigma Iota, will benefit from the funding of the conference and will be able to do service for the community, attend national conferences, and attend other continuing education opportunities!
Registration
Registration coming soon!
If you are a presenter, a DSU Site Supervisor, or a DSU student, please email woodallconference@deltastate.edu for registration access code.
If you would like to use a check, money order, or cash for pre-registration, please complete the physical copy of the conference registration. We are no longer accepting Purchase Orders (PO).
To ensure receipt of check and issuance of an online code to register, checks must be postmarked by February 5, 2026. Please mail your registration form and check, cash, or money order to the following address:
Please make checks out to: DSU – CSI
DSU Counselor Education
Attn: Darla Poole
DSU Box 3142
1003 W. Sunflower Ave.
Cleveland, MS 38733.
Contact Information
Conference Coordinator:
Darla Poole, MEd, P-LPC, NCC, CCC
E: woodallconference@deltastate.edu
P: (662) 846-4364
Dr. Jinnelle V. Powell, PhD, LPC-S, EMDR Trainer & Consultant
Core Faculty at Walden University
Founder & CEO at Distinctive Counseling & Consulting, PLLC
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Powell, Core Faculty with Walden University, has 17 years of experience in various capacities with child welfare agencies and mental health centers in Texas. She specializes in treating trauma survivors, specifically complex trauma. She has expertise in providing supervision to student and associate level counselors in training through a trauma informed lens. She is an EMDR Trainer, Consultant, and Certified Therapist approved through the EMDR International Association (*Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). Dr. Powell is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Distinctive Counseling & Consulting, PLLC where she oversees 20 fully licensed, associate, and student clinicians providing care to children, adolescents, and adults receiving of play therapy, EMDR therapy, individual, couples, and family counseling. In 2024, Dr. Powell was awarded a $70,000.00 grant through the Heart Galleries of Texas for Distinctive Counseling & Consulting, PLLC to provide free play therapy and EMDR services to individuals within families formed through kinship or adoption and have exited the child welfare system. Through this grant, Dr. Powell was able to train 8 clinicians to use EMDR in their work with these families. Dr. Powell earned her PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision, has experience engaging in quantitative and qualitative research projects, and has published in peer-reviewed journals and presented on research and conceptual framework. She is also the Founder & Executive Director of the Distinctive Collective, Inc. a 501c3 company with a mission to increase access to mental health care through free counseling, research, advocacy, and support for mental health professionals.
Location
Ewing Hall, Delta State University
Cleveland, MS, 38733
(View Google Map)
Agenda
8:30 – 9 AM | Check-In
9 – 10:10 AM | Welcome & Keynote Session
10:20 – 11:20 AM | Breakout Sessions
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Breakout Sessions
12:35 – 1:35 PM | Lunch on your own
1:40 – 2:40 PM | Breakout Sessions
2:50 – 3:50 PM | Breakout Sessions
4 – 5 PM | Breakout Sessions
6 Available CEUs
Schedule of Sessions
12:35 - 1:35 PM | Lunch on your own
- For dining recommendations, visit: https://www.visitclevelandms.com/dining.
Past Exhibitors
988 Mississippi | The ACT Center | DSU Chi Sigma Iota Honor Society | Communicare/Sunflower Landing | Count It All Joy Counseling | Ely Behavioral Health | Grant Me Justice | Gulf South Center for Community Engaged Health Research & Innovation | Innova Prep School | Mississippi Air National Guard | Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services | National Career Development Association | Nunnery Clinical & Educational Consulting, LLC | Our House, Inc. | Peyton’s Angels | Region 6 Life Help | University of Mississippi – Leadership & Counselor Education
Continuing Education Information
Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC) & Nationally Certified Counselors (NCC)
- Delta State University Counselor Education department, event sponsor, is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider. DSU – Counselor Education is recognized by the National Board for Certified Counselors to offer continuing education for National Certified Counselors. We adhere to NBCC Continuing Education Guidelines, Provider #4306.
- up to 6 NBCC CEs offered
Social Workers
- Social Work contact hours are in the review process by DSU Social Work Department. The Social Work Department of Delta State University, SWCU1202, is an approved provider for continuing education by the Mississippi Board of Examiners and Marriage & Family Therapists.
- up to 6 SW CEs offered
- Attention: The state’s additional fee of $25 for social work certificates is included in your registration fee.
School Counselors & Other School Helping Professionals interested in MDE/Education CEUs
- DSU Continuing Education Department is an approved provider for MS Department of Education CEUs. MDE CEUs have been approved.
- up to .6 MDE CEUs offered
- Attention: An additional fee of $15 for school certificates is included in your registration fee.
Please contact your licensing board if you have questions about the type of continuing education offered. If you have any questions about about this conference, please email woodallconference@deltastate.edu.
For those that would like to use a check, money order, or cash for pre-registration, please contact Darla Poole at woodallconference@deltastate.edu. To ensure receipt of check and issuance of an online code to register, mail checks by February 5, 2026.
Make checks out to: DSU – CSI.
Mailing Address: DSU Counselor Ed, Attn: Darla Poole, DSU Box 3142, 1003 W. Sunflower Ave., Cleveland, MS 38733
