Current Community Offerings
This is a 5 session online group for BIPOC working Moms, where we will address topics around identity, relationships, and more!
The group will meet on zoom on Thursdays from 7:00pm to 8:30pm from 1/11/2024 - 2/8/2024.
It will cost $175 total for all of the sessions, and we have 10 spots available so that we will be able to have interactive conversations together!
This is an interactive workshop for couples who attend Quest Church and are either engaged or considering engagement, who want tools to strengthen their relationship, improve their communication, and prepare for marriage.
It will focus on topics of identity, family, conflict, communication, sex, intimacy and roles.
Dates & Times: January 11th-February 8th on Thursday evenings from 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Quest Church, 1401 Leary Way NW Seattle, WA 98107
Previous Clinician Offerings
professional clinical development
INTEGRATIVE INTERSECTIONAL COMMUNITY MINDED
ABOUT OUR CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT TRAININGS
Learn in community with others desiring to integrate faith and intersectional clinical practice. Grow in your own work of intersectional faith, race, + mental health. Connect with a diverse network of clinicians cultivating health and thriving in various corners of the world. Enrich your clinical approaches to working with trauma, couples, families, and diverse client identities. Learn to embody intersectionality practice, through cultural humility, faith and therapeutic skills.
This year’s focus will be on both growing in our work as clinicians and developing the Self of the Therapist, presented in three training series each. Held on the first Thursdays of every month from Oct-June 2022. Participants may register for one or more series of trainings. Trainings provided by all BIPOC professionals. 30% Discounted rate for Students with code STUDENT. REGISTER NOW FOR LIMITED TIME EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT.
2021-2022 CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES
NAVIGATING SEXUALITY, RACE, AND SPIRITUALITY IN PRACTICE: SELF OF THERAPIST AND CLINICAL APPLICATION
FIRST THURSDAYS // OCT-JUN 2022 // 9-10:30AM PST
Unity Collective’s core mission is to provide mental health care and clinical training that honors the holistic nature of each client’s identity, as well as that of each clinician. This training is meant to equip therapists to navigate the beautifully complex intersectionality of sexuality, race, spirituality, and mental health, both for themselves and for their clients.
Therapists will participate in didactic and experiential learning within a brave learning community. Presenters are mental health professionals who specialize in working with clients diverse in sexual, racial, and spiritual identities. With kind and keen self-awareness, therapists can use their personal identities and growth to be mindful and effective guides in their clients’ journeys toward greater wholeness and healing. Each training series can be registered for independently, but we encourage participants to experience the year together in community with us, as the program is designed to be a journey of growth and development of intersectional self of therapist work. We are offering a discount for registering for all three training series. Training will be held live over zoom. Find out more on the registration page.
TRAINING OBJECTIVES |
1. Participants will increase understanding of clinical considerations for navigating client sexuality, race, and spirituality in treatment.
2. Participants will learn interventions for navigating clinical issues related to sexuality, race, and spirituality.
3. Participants will increase self-awareness of personal factors (i.e., beliefs, biases, privilege, fears, hopes, etc,) related to sexuality, race, and spirituality that may otherwise cause harm or obstruct client care and treatment.
4. Participants will learn how personal factors (i.e., experiences, beliefs, privilege, values, etc.) related to sexuality, race, or spirituality may be used indirectly or directly to ethically support my client’s care and treatment.
5. Participants will learn methods for continued self-awareness, self-monitoring, and repair of ruptures in the therapeutic relationship to protect client care and treatment.
TRAINING DESCRIPTIONS |
SERIES 1: Navigating Sexuality in Practice: SELF OF THERAPIST AND CLINICAL APPLICATION
Dr. Sarah H. Moon, PsyD
DATES: OCTOBER 7TH, NOVEMBER 4TH, DECEMBER 2ND, 2021 // THURSDAYS 9-10:30AM PST
Series 2: Navigating Race in Practice: SELF OF THERAPIST AND CLINICAL APPLICATION
Shirley Lytle, MDiv, LMHC, CSAT, Gottman, CPTT, will provide an introduction to navigating issues related to race within psychotherapy. Participants will expand their understanding of cultural sensitivity, examine the implications of systemic injustice in the field of psychology, and learn how to cultivate a safe therapeutic alliance, specifically for BIPOC clients.
Yecenia Harris, MA LMHC, CMHS, EMMHS, will provide a general overview of Liberation Psychology, which focuses on bringing healing to oppressed individuals and groups. Participants will learn how historical, socioeconomic, and political contexts affect a client’s psychological experience and thus, their healing. Ms. Harris will share case examples from her work with Indigenous and LatinX clients and provide instruction for integrating Liberation Psychology into clinical practice.
Dr. Deanna Burgess, PhD, LCPC, will guide participants in expanding their racial awareness through reflexive dialogue surrounding the topics of race and ethnicity in clinical practice. Participants will learn how to describe and model reflexive processing as a means of increasing racial and ethnic awareness, and highlight nuanced dynamics that present when working with BIPOC clients.
DATES: JANUARY 6, FEBRUARY 3, MARCH 3 2022 // THURSDAYS 9-10:30AM PST
Series 3: Navigating Spirituality in Practice: SELF OF THERAPIST AND CLINICAL APPLICATION
Dr. Joel Jin, PhD, will provide an introduction to clinical work with clients who identify as Christian. Dr. Jin will discuss clinical considerations and implications for navigating client spirituality in treatment. Participants will learn how to identify client attachment to God and provide intervention for religiously-related resistance and barriers to treatment. Participants will be led to examine their personal beliefs and values regarding spirituality and how they might affect their work with clients who identify as Christian.
Dr. Kimberly Riley, DSW, LMFT, MHP, CMHS, will present clinical implications and considerations in working with clients who do not share a similar spiritual/religious identity as the therapist. Dr. Riley will also provide instruction and case examples in relationship counseling for interfaith couples. Participants will learn how to ethically navigate differences of worldview between therapist and client and between partners in interfaith romantic relationships. Participants will examine how their personal beliefs and values regarding spirituality may affect their work with clients or couples who have differing faith or religious background than the therapist.
Dr. Kelly Mark, PsyD, will discuss potential psychological benefits of spirituality/religion, as well as clinical considerations for working with clients experiencing spiritual/religious distress (i.e., religious fears, ambivalence toward God or Christianity, crisis of faith, “dark nights of the soul,” etc). Participants will consider how their own spirituality/religion may be a resource to their role as therapist and how to navigate work with Christian clients when they are experiencing spiritual/religious distress themselves. Participants will learn methods for continued self-awareness, self-monitoring, and repair of ruptures in the therapeutic relationship to protect client care and treatment.
DATES: APRIL 7, MAY 5, JUNE 2 2022 // THURSDAYS 9-10:30AM PST