White Race Socialization and White Therapists: Treatment Considerations Surrounding Racial Traumas among BIPOC clients (Apr 24, 2025)

White Race Socialization and White Therapists: Treatment Considerations Surrounding Racial Traumas among BIPOC clients is organized by TZK Seminars and will be held on Apr 24, 2025.

Description:
Multicultural guidelines and ethical standards dictate that White therapists examine their own racial identity, privilege, and fragility to better serve BIPOC clients. Dr. Fatter will review current trends in multicultural competency and discuss the clinical cost of the therapist being ‘colorblind’. This webinar will specifically focus on aspects of White supremacy culture, White privilege, White fragility, and Helms’ White racial identity model to help therapists self-assess their own White racial identity. Dr. Fatter will discuss clinical examples of ways ‘whiteness’ can show up relationally in clinical settings as well as skills needed to build racial stamina. In addition, Menakem’s H-I-P-P theory of how historical trauma is somatically held in the body will be presented to better understand the typical nervous system response in a White body and ways White therapists can work with their own somatic countertransference reactions when working with BIPOC clients. Dr. Fatter will also describe examples of specific types of microaggressions that can damage the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Fatter will also discuss practical ways to bring up racial identity with all clients and how to do a therapeutic repair when a relational rupture has occurred.

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

• Report current trends in multicultural competency.
• Describe qualities of White culture, White Privilege and White Fragility and ways they can show up in clinical work.
• Identify 8 types of microaggressions that can show up when providing clinical services.
• Learn 3 practical ways to address racial identity and experience with clients.
• Describe how to do a relational repair.