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2-hour Cultural Competency training
Cultural humility isn’t just a buzz phrase - it’s clinical ethics. In this training, therapists and health providers will examine how bias, power, and social stress show up in treatment (even with the “nice” practitioner), and why neutrality often becomes avoidance. Participants will learn a direct, usable repair protocol for moments of identity-linked harm, misattunement, and rupture—plus concrete language for consent-based pacing, shame reduction, and inclusive care that doesn’t require clients to educate their practitioners. We’ll close with a non-fluffy self-care lens: creativity as a way to metabolize political intensity and protect the therapist’s nervous system so repair stays possible.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify and describe at least one key clinical considerations for ethically responding to client concerns, and choose an appropriate clinical response using a brief case example.
2. Apply at least two client-centered frameworks to conceptualize presenting concerns within identity, cultural, and systemic contexts, including one equity-informed lens to reduce harm and strengthen collaboration.
3. Begin to develop a brief, individualized professional sustainability plan that includes one boundary strategy, one regulation strategy, and one creativity-based practice to support resilience during heightened social or political stress.
AASECT CKA:
A. Ethics and ethical behavior.
C. Socio-cultural, familial factors (e.g., ethnicity, culture, religion, spirituality, socioeconomic status, family values) in relation to sexual values and behaviors.
O. Professional communication and personal reflection skills.
AASECT ST:
F. Ethical decision-making and best practice.
PRESENTER: Amanda Jae Gonzalez, MSW, LCSW
As a growing expert in trauma, mindfulness, and body–mind bridging across the lifespan, Amanda strives to support individuals and families in making sense of what they’re experiencing and moving toward meaningful change. Her approach is light-hearted, relational, and evidence-informed, and works to create a space that feels both grounded and human. She often integrates somatics, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical approaches, and psychodynamic insight into an education-based style that helps clients better understand their nervous system, patterns, and needs.
Amanda frequently supports clients navigating anxiety, survivorship, post-traumatic stress, injury or chronic pain, and perinatal/postpartum concerns—including postpartum mood disorders and postpartum psychosis. Her clinical background includes training in psychodynamic theory and child development, and she also incorporates attachment-based work that supports healthier “relating,” emotional safety, and connection over time.
She deeply appreciates each client’s humanity throughout our work together. In each therapeutic relationship, her hope is to engage in a way that feels creative, informative, strength-building, and supportive of real change.
2-hour Cultural Competency training
Cultural humility isn’t just a buzz phrase - it’s clinical ethics. In this training, therapists and health providers will examine how bias, power, and social stress show up in treatment (even with the “nice” practitioner), and why neutrality often becomes avoidance. Participants will learn a direct, usable repair protocol for moments of identity-linked harm, misattunement, and rupture—plus concrete language for consent-based pacing, shame reduction, and inclusive care that doesn’t require clients to educate their practitioners. We’ll close with a non-fluffy self-care lens: creativity as a way to metabolize political intensity and protect the therapist’s nervous system so repair stays possible.
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify and describe at least one key clinical considerations for ethically responding to client concerns, and choose an appropriate clinical response using a brief case example.
2. Apply at least two client-centered frameworks to conceptualize presenting concerns within identity, cultural, and systemic contexts, including one equity-informed lens to reduce harm and strengthen collaboration.
3. Begin to develop a brief, individualized professional sustainability plan that includes one boundary strategy, one regulation strategy, and one creativity-based practice to support resilience during heightened social or political stress.
AASECT CKA:
A. Ethics and ethical behavior.
C. Socio-cultural, familial factors (e.g., ethnicity, culture, religion, spirituality, socioeconomic status, family values) in relation to sexual values and behaviors.
O. Professional communication and personal reflection skills.
AASECT ST:
F. Ethical decision-making and best practice.
PRESENTER: Amanda Jae Gonzalez, MSW, LCSW
As a growing expert in trauma, mindfulness, and body–mind bridging across the lifespan, Amanda strives to support individuals and families in making sense of what they’re experiencing and moving toward meaningful change. Her approach is light-hearted, relational, and evidence-informed, and works to create a space that feels both grounded and human. She often integrates somatics, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical approaches, and psychodynamic insight into an education-based style that helps clients better understand their nervous system, patterns, and needs.
Amanda frequently supports clients navigating anxiety, survivorship, post-traumatic stress, injury or chronic pain, and perinatal/postpartum concerns—including postpartum mood disorders and postpartum psychosis. Her clinical background includes training in psychodynamic theory and child development, and she also incorporates attachment-based work that supports healthier “relating,” emotional safety, and connection over time.
She deeply appreciates each client’s humanity throughout our work together. In each therapeutic relationship, her hope is to engage in a way that feels creative, informative, strength-building, and supportive of real change.
