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Culture Ally provides all the tools, training and resources that you need to effectively address the mental health needs of your culturally diverse clients.

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Culturally Responsive Workshops & Training

Culture Ally offers professional development workshops on the competencies required for ethically and effectively counseling diverse individuals. Designed to meet your organization's needs, these workshops provide knowledge on foundational topics related to culturally responsive counseling, clinical interventions and
strategies for immediate application. As an additional benefit, our workshops meet the requirements for continuing education units for licensed and associate mental health clinicians. These workshops are designed for various clinical settings, including behavioral health agencies, community mental health programs, wellness programs in school districts and integrated medical and behavioral organizations. Designed for clinicians at every stage of their professional journey, these workshops help organizations equip their clinicians to confidently engage clinical issues related to race and culture.
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Antiracism Clinical Consultation Groups

Antiracism Clinical Consultation Groups are structured and safe places for psychotherapists to explore race, racism, and social justice issues. As a stand alone event, or part of a series, these groups offer (1) experiential activities for clinician self-exploration, (2) opportunities for case presentations, (3) clinical consultation with diverse colleagues, and (4) mindfulness practices
designed to increase one's capacity for managing the triggers of race related discussions. This intentionally gracious space is designed for uncomfortable learning and professional development. Respectful interactions are strictly monitored. Emotional safety is paramount. All races and ethnicities are encouraged and welcome to attend.
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Antiracism Reading Group for Therapists

The Culture Ally Reading Group is a monthly, free gathering, for socially conscious therapists and counselors, who want to gain greater knowledge of the workings of race in the United States. Each month, we will meet to discuss select texts that provide insight into the impact of race and racism. The group
will focus on the application of these texts to one’s clinical practice. Moreover, it will serve as a resource for clinicians striving to engage in antiracist practices in their personal and professional lives. Join us for community, accountability and support in your culturally responsive journey.
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Organizational Consulting Services

Our communities are going through sweeping social and cultural changes, and counseling organizations often require specific training, strategies, and tools to address these changes. Culture Ally can partner with you to identify the specific needs of your organization and design custom services to help you reach your goals. We assist mental health organizations with
their specific concerns related to diversity and inclusion. We work on a variety of goals, including addressing bias on clinical teams, facilitating anti-racism and anti-oppression awareness, addressing issues of inclusion in hiring and retention, creating greater equity in policies or integrating culturally responsive structures and interventions for clients. Call us now for a free 30-minute consultation for us to learn more about your needs.
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Antiracism Clinical Consultation Groups

Do you desire support and training in working clinically with issues related to race, racism and social justice? Are you a licensed or associate mental health profession? Then consider joining this gracious space for uncomfortable learning and professional development. Respectful interactions are strictly monitored. Emotional safety is paramount. All races and ethnicities are encouraged and welcome to attend.
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Empowered Hours Continuing Education

Culture Ally is excited to offer quality and accessible culturally responsive continuing education. Empowered Hours are hour long, live and 0n-demand, webinars on a variety of topics related to counseling diverse individuals. Our CEU programs provide knowledge on foundational topics, as well as clinical interventions and strategies for immediate application. Designed for clinicians at every stage of their professional journey, Empowered Hours are a great resource for your life-long learning process.
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Culture Ally Table Talks

Our communities are going through sweeping social and cultural changes. Clients require skilled and compassionate therapists to help them navigate our changing world. Table Talks are live sessions devoted to exploring the pressing cultural politics of today and the impact on our clients. These are NOT political debates. Rather, they are opportunities to deepen our relevance to diverse communities, as we commit to better understand and clinically engage the issues that are impacting their lives.
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Antiracism Reading Group

The Culture Ally Reading Group is a monthly, free gathering, for socially conscious therapists and counselors, who want to gain greater knowledge of the workings of race in the United States. Each month, we will meet to discuss select texts that provide insight into the impact of race and racism.

Inner Working (1)

June 18, 2021
The Inner Work of Racial Justice

Biased

July 30, 2021
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

mindful

August 20, 2021
Mindful of Race

The Person (1)

September 17, 2021
Person You Mean to Be

my grand (1)

October 15, 2021
My Grandmother’s Hands

nice racism (1)

November 19, 2021
Nice Racism

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What Makes Culture Ally Different?

Emphasis on Clinical Self Exploration

Personal self-awareness is a foundational competency for therapists. Our trainings are dynamic opportunities for you to identify and explore your social and cultural identities, including categories of privilege and marginalization. Trainings are safe and supportive spaces where you mindfully consider how your lived experiences impact your practice and your clients.

Focus on Cross-Cultural Effectiveness

Moving beyond mere didactic instruction, Culture Ally provides supportive community and nurturing critique. Honoring the gift of mistakes, we create a safe place to fail and learn from those failures. Our process promotes personal and professional growth that provides the foundation for effective and ethical cross-cultural counseling.

Commitment to Social Justice

Therapists and counselors are obligated to acknowledge and engage the structures of oppression that dramatically impair our clients’ health and well-being. Culture Ally opens discursive spaces for you to explore how cultural politics affect clients. Moreover, we help you identify strategies for activism, advocacy and clinical intervention to aid clients who suffer injustice and oppression.

Support for Anti-Biased Clinicians

Culture Ally is committed to equipping clinicians with knowledge, strategies and interventions that ethically and effectively address the needs of diverse clients. Our goal is to empower a community of therapists and counselors with the tools to help eradicate mental health disparities found in our socially and culturally diverse communities.

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Mind-Body Healing for Racial Stress and Trauma

This workshop examines the definition of racism, explores the concept of white-body supremacy, and considers the physical impact of racial ideologies. In particular, it explores how racial conditioning and racial trauma have impacted American racial bodies. Additionally, it considers how race and racism are experienced and transferred physically and emotionally through the body.
This workshop also defines racial trauma and identifies how traumatic retentions impact individuals and racial groups. Participants practice mindful activities that help mitigate racial trauma and disperse traumatic retentions. These mindful activities will teach participants strategies to still the hyperaroused body, decrease racial distress, help connect racialized bodies, and help heal traumatic responses.

Antiracism Consultation Group 2

This consultation group provides an opportunity for clinicians to consider how issues of racial conditioning, racial distress, and racial trauma may be impacting current cases. There will be an opportunity for 2 case presentations utilizing a structured format. In addition, clinicians will consider which mindfulness and somatic healing tools may help with these cases, as well as other clinical considerations.

Enhancing Racial Emotional Intelligence and Awareness Through Mindful Practice

This workshop considers how mindfulness can support antiracist work and help participants engage race and racism in their clinical practice. We will explore triggering aspects of race and strategies for remaining present amid these challenges. This interactive workshop allows participants to practice meditative practices that (1) enhance racial emotional intelligence, (2) develop racial awareness, and (3) help clinicians manage racial distress. The workshop also considers the role of self-compassion and self-care to help clinicians develop a holistic approach to manage the intensity of working with race.

Antiracism Consultation Group 1

This consultation group will focus on cases in which clinicians are engaging triggering aspects of race, either themselves or with a client. There will be an opportunity for 2 case presentations utilizing a structured format. Clinicians will consider which mindfulness tools may help manage these cases, as well as other clinical considerations.

Culturally Responsive Counseling in Schools: A Social Justice Approach

This intermediate-level workshop is designed for counseling programs that provide services within the K-12 setting. The workshop begins with a review of bias and how a growth mindset offers a foundational approach for disrupting bias. It then moves into the concept of social justice and considers how it is at the center of a culturally responsive approach to school counseling. Next, it explores a social justice approach that looks at the similarities and differences of equality and equity in the school setting. Moving into treatment planning, clinicians will consider the role of advocacy, empowerment, consultation, and activism in addressing issues related to race. Finally, clinicians will engage in interactive simulations of intensive cross-cultural counseling issues that might occur in the district. Clinicians will be supported in devising interventions and utilizing mindfulness strategies to manage strong feelings.

Race Talk: Strategies for Effective Discussions around Race and Racism

Talking about race, racism and other issues related to cultural identities often causes people to feel anxious. This intermediate-level workshop identifies how “race talk” can be triggering and helps participants consider their capacities for these conversations. Participants explore their own race stories and explore how it feels to communicate these narratives. This workshop teaches participants how to better “read race” during any interpersonal interaction, address racial issues at the moment, and manage intense emotional feelings that arise during these moments. Participants learn mindful strategies for decreasing strong personal reactions, including empathy, self-compassion, mindful listening, and mindful meditative exercises. Importantly, this workshop also provides tools for keeping racial discussions safe and gracious, yet effective ways to engage an individual who says something that is racially offensive.

Culturally Responsive Counseling: Addressing Cultural Biases that Influence Clinical Practice

This beginner-level workshop begins with an informative overview of key concepts in antiracist clinical practice, including definitions of race, prejudice, discrimination, racism, and antiracism. It also explores the similarities and differences between the following concepts:
  • 1. Cultural Competence
  • 2. Cultural Humility
  • 3. Culturally Responsive
  • 1. Cultural Competence
  • 2. Cultural Humility
  • 3. Culturally Responsive
This workshop assists clinicians in identifying vocabulary for their approach to working with socially and culturally diverse clients. In addition, participants consider the ethical responsibilities of therapists concerning race, racism, and social justice. Clinicians engage in critical self-exploration, in which they explore their own biases as therapists. Finally, participants identify the racial issues they are most comfortable addressing as therapists and the topics about which they remain silent.

Culturally Responsive Self-Awareness: Mapping Cultural and Social Identities

This beginner-level workshop builds cultural awareness, one of the core competencies of culturally responsive counseling. It explains the concept of intersectionality and its applicability as a framework for engaging an individual’s diverse social and cultural identities. This interactive workshop invites participants to explore their intersecting identities and map their shifting locations as part of marginalized and privileged communities. Participants are encouraged to apply their reflections to their clinical practice by considering how their lived identities impact their clinical decisions and clients. Finally, participants are supported in identifying tangible ways to establish and maintain professional practices that build their cultural awareness.

Mind-Body Healing for Racial Stress andTrauma

This workshop examines the definition of racism, explores the concept of white-body supremacy, and considers the physical impact of racial ideologies. In particular, it explores how racial conditioning and racial trauma have impacted American racial bodies. Additionally, it considers how race and racism are experienced and transferred physically and emotionally through the body.
This workshop also defines racial trauma and identifies how traumatic retentions impact individuals and racial groups. Participants practice mindful activities that help mitigate racial trauma and disperse traumatic retentions. These mindful activities will teach participants strategies to still the hyperaroused body, decrease racial distress, help connect racialized bodies, and help heal traumatic responses.

Antiracism Consultation Group 2

This consultation group provides an opportunity for clinicians to consider how issues of racial conditioning, racial distress, and racial trauma may be impacting current cases. There will be an opportunity for 2 case presentations utilizing a structured format. In addition, clinicians will consider which mindfulness and somatic healing tools may help with these cases, as well as other clinical considerations.
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Enhancing Racial Emotional Intelligence and Awareness Through Mindful Practice

This workshop considers how mindfulness can support antiracist work and help participants engage race and racism in their clinical practice. We will explore triggering aspects of race and strategies for remaining present amid these challenges. This interactive workshop allows participants to practice meditative practices that (1) enhance racial emotional intelligence, (2) develop racial awareness, and (3) help clinicians manage racial distress. The workshop also considers the role of self-compassion and self-care to help clinicians develop a holistic approach to manage the intensity of working with race.

Antiracism Consultation Group 1

This consultation group will focus on cases in which clinicians are engaging triggering aspects of race, either themselves or with a client. There will be an opportunity for 2 case presentations utilizing a structured format. Clinicians will consider which mindfulness tools may help manage these cases, as well as other clinical considerations.
Book Your Training Today

Culturally Responsive Counseling in Schools: A Social Justice Approach

This intermediate-level workshop is designed for counseling programs that provide services within the K-12 setting. The workshop begins with a review of bias and how a growth mindset offers a foundational approach for disrupting bias. It then moves into the concept of social justice and considers how it is at the center of a culturally responsive approach to school counseling. Next, it explores a social justice approach that looks at the similarities and differences of equality and equity in the school setting. Moving into treatment planning, clinicians will consider the role of advocacy, empowerment, consultation, and activism in addressing issues related to race. Finally, clinicians will engage in interactive simulations of intensive cross-cultural counseling issues that might occur in the district. Clinicians will be supported in devising interventions and utilizing mindfulness strategies to manage strong feelings.
Book Your Training Today

Race Talk: Strategies for Effective Discussions around Race and Racism

Talking about race, racism and other issues related to cultural identities often causes people to feel anxious. This intermediate-level workshop identifies how “race talk” can be triggering and helps participants consider their capacities for these conversations. Participants explore their own race stories and explore how it feels to communicate these narratives. This workshop teaches participants how to better “read race” during any interpersonal interaction, address racial issues at the moment, and manage intense emotional feelings that arise during these moments. Participants learn mindful strategies for decreasing strong personal reactions, including empathy, self-compassion, mindful listening, and mindful meditative exercises. Importantly, this workshop also provides tools for keeping racial discussions safe and gracious, yet effective ways to engage an individual who says something that is racially offensive.
Book Your Training Today

Culturally Responsive Counseling: Addressing Cultural Biases that Influence Clinical Practice

This beginner-level workshop begins with an informative overview of key concepts in antiracist clinical practice, including definitions of race, prejudice, discrimination, racism, and antiracism. It also explores the similarities and differences between (1) Cultural Competence, (2) Cultural Humility and (3) Culturally Responsive.

Additionally, this workshop assists clinicians in identifying vocabulary for their approach to working with socially and culturally diverse clients. In addition, participants consider the ethical responsibilities of therapists concerning race, racism, and social justice. Clinicians engage in critical self-exploration, in which they explore their own biases as therapists. Finally, participants identify the racial issues they are most comfortable addressing as therapists and the topics about which they remain silent.

Book Your Training Today

Culturally Responsive Self-Awareness: Mapping Cultural and Social Identities

This introductory-level workshop builds cultural awareness, one of the core competencies of culturally responsive counseling. This workshop defines key concepts related to cultural awareness including, intersectionality, privilege, marginalization, social identity, and power. This interactive workshop invites participants to explore their intersecting identities utilizing Pamela Hays’ ADDRESSING model and then map their shifting locations as part of marginalized and privileged communities. The workshop then considers the practice of personal disclosure of identity as part of psychological practice, and ethical considerations. Finally, tangible ways to establish and maintain professional practices that build their cultural awareness are offered for life-long learning and professional development.

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