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Acknowledging white privilege is a challenging part of therapy to navigate, especially for white clinicians working to decolonize their therapeutic practice. Unfortunately, many white clinicians, and white people generally, are taught to actively resist and/or completely avoid awareness of race- leaving white supremacist behaviors unchecked.

This 70-minute seminar is designed to help mental health professionals monitor their cultural countertransference, and use self-compassion to identify and decondition privilege.

Continuing Education

This program provides 1 hour of continuing education units.
-Approval NASW-KY #050522. NASW-KY is an approved provider for social work credits through the KYBSW.
-Approved Provider #50-33522 Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Course #20-1098092.
-Accepted by the OH CSWMFT Board.
Continuing education requirements vary by state, while many accept the above approvals, please confirm with your board.

Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the role of white supremacist systems influencing our training in mental health interventions.
  2. Learn about how the concept of "countertransference" and what it means for white professionals treating non-white clients.
  3. Learn how to use self-compassion to mindfully identify white privilege in one's practice of mental health service, and actively soothe harsh self-criticism.
  4. Identify the difference between self-compassion to authentically work through supremacist countertransference, versus making excuses for white supremacist behavior.
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Broderick Sawyer, Ph.D.

Psychologist, Activist & Consultant
Originally a college basketball player from a small Connecticut city on the edge of NYC, Broderick Sawyer is now a clinical psychologist, teacher, activist and consultant living in Louisville, KY. In his graduate training, he studied mindfulness meditation, compassion, and behavioral techniques for healing racial trauma and other forms of generational harm.

Seeing the transformational power of attention and compassion skills within himself and former patients, Broderick shifted to teaching outside of the therapy room. His goal was to remove the barriers to learning accurate mental health information, especially for change-makers (i.e., non-profit employees, activists, therapists, etc.), and those who don't have access to 1 on 1 psychotherapy.

Dr. Sawyer now personally collaborates with non profit businesses, therapy clinics, universities, grassroots organizers, and other organizations, to provide custom-fitted training events, psychology curriculum for in-depth skill-building, and ongoing consultation and mentoring.

Deepen Your Practice

Access the recordings from two of Dr. Sawyer's seminars - Each is eligible for 1 CE Hour, and covers their own unique topic.

Explore how to use multiple theoretical perspectives - CBT, Compassion, Psychodynamic, etc. - without dismantling our original training background in the Integrated Clinician's Toolkit.

Learn historical context of white privilege and conceptualize modern day systems of 'Colonizer Psychology' in our mental health education, practice, and internal landscape - while gaining practical tools to break down these systems - in Deconditioning White Privilege in Your Mental Health Practice.
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