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SUMMARY:🆕BRAND-NEW! Cultural Humility in Working with Immigrant Clients 🆕
DESCRIPTION:BRAND-NEW!\nLaw & Ethics\, Health Equity\, and/or \nCultural Competence CEs\nCultural Humility in Working with Immigrant Clients\nPart Two of a Two-Part Series\n(though you don’t need to be registered for both to attend either)\nPart One\, From Immigration to Homecoming: Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Immigrant Clients\, is on Friday\, May 1st. Learn more and register here >>>\nPresented by: Dr. Gitika Talwar\nWhen: Friday\, June 12th\, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM\, Pacific Time\nWhere: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.\nContinuing Education Credit Hours: 3 Law & Ethics\, Health Equity\, and/or Cultural Competence CEs | $99.00\nThis course builds on material from the Part One course about Immigration and Mental Health on Friday\, May 1st (more here). \nThough this course can be taken independently\, it will discuss how therapy is a site of acculturation for the therapeutic dyad (therapist and client/ therapist and couple/ therapist and family). Recognizing values alignment and values misalignment can be an opportunity for a deep and sincere therapeutic encounter. Cultural humility can be a practice to navigate this therapeutic encounter in helpful ways. \nCultural humility can help the therapist be an effective steward of the therapeutic space because it focuses on continuous self-reflection\, discovery\, and fostering honest\, trustworthy relationships with clients (Yeager & Bauer-Wu\, 2013). It represents a shift from cultural competence\, which emphasizes “knowing” about various cultural groups\, to an ongoing process of “understanding” and “being” with the client (Tervalon & Murray-García\, 1998; Lekas et al.\, 2020). \nKey aspects and principles of cultural humility include: \n\nLifelong self-exploration and learning: continuous commitment to self-reflection and a willingness to learn from clients’ experiences (Summers & Nelson\, 2022).\nAcknowledging power dynamics and biases: Therapists are invited to recognize their own biases and the inherent power imbalances within the therapeutic relationship (Summers & Nelson\, 2022).\nRespect for diverse identities and cultural capital: It entails showing respect for clients’ various identities (e.g.\, race\, ethnicity\, sexual orientation\, religion\, age\, gender\, ability) and acknowledging their strengths and resources (Summers & Nelson\, 2022).\nTrust and belief in client reports: Culturally humble practitioners trust clients’ accounts of harassment\, discrimination\, and oppression\, rather than seeking alternative explanations for presenting problems (Summers & Nelson\, 2022).\nNot being the expert: Therapists understand that they are not the experts when clients have lived experiences different from their own (Summers & Nelson\, 2022).\nOpenness\, curiosity\, and flexibility: This approach encourages therapists to be open\, curious\, flexible\, and empathetic to better understand clients’ needs (Summers & Nelson\, 2022).\nAdvocacy: It includes advocating to dismantle systemic barriers that impact clients (Summers & Nelson\, 2022).\n\nMosher et al. (2017) report that the impact of cultural humility in therapy includes: \n\nDeeper therapeutic alliances\nOpportunities to communicate respect for the client’s cultural identity\nBetter therapy outcomes\nOpportunities for meaningful engagement and repair of cultural mistakes\n\nResearch indicates that common humanity\, a component of self-compassion\, can increase cultural humility in counseling students (Rikard\, 2022). Cultural humility is considered a desirable trait in therapists and is significantly related to a strong working alliance and client improvement (Hook et al.\, 2013). Given how religious and spiritual beliefs can be entwined with cultural beliefs\, cultural humility can be expanded to include humility towards spiritual and religious beliefs in order to serve our racially\, ethnically\, and spiritually diverse clients. \nWorkshop Objectives\n\nLearn about cultural humility\n\nDefine and differentiate cultural humility from cultural competence\, recognizing it as a lifelong process of self-reflection and learning.\nDemonstrate respect for diverse client identities and cultural capital\, acknowledging clients’ strengths and resources\nRecognize the role of history\, sociology\, and current events on the culture of communities\nRecognize how immigration influences the experience of culture. How pre- and post-migration factors influence the practice of culture\nDefine spirituality expansively\, reflect on the role of spirituality in our culturally diverse clients\, and recognize how this impacts therapy.\n\n\nIdentify and analyze their own biases and the power dynamics present in therapeutic relationships.\nAdopt a non-expert stance in therapeutic interactions\, particularly when clients have lived experiences different from their own.\nExplain the positive impact of cultural humility on therapeutic alliances\, client outcomes\, and the repair of cultural mistakes\nRecognize the role of cultural humility in supporting the client’s experience of acculturating to therapy.\nReflect on ways to incorporate spirituality into our therapeutic work\nCultivate trust in clients’ reports of experiences\, including harassment\, discrimination\, and oppression.\nIdentify specific strategies to integrate in your practice to foster a culturally humble healing environment\nIdentify ethical considerations that challenge the therapist’s capacity to be open\, curious\, flexible\, and empathic in responding to clients’ needs.\nIdentify common clinical conceptualizations that can create cultural tensions within this therapeutic space\, especially when there are cultural or spiritual values that challenge the therapist’s own value system\nIdentify alternatives to common clinical conceptualizations that can foster greater cultural humility in the therapeutic space\nDiscuss how spirituality may impact the therapeutic space\nRecognize the importance of advocacy in dismantling systemic barriers that impact clients.\n\nREGISTER HERE\n  \n 
URL:https://cascadia-training.com/course/cultural-humility-in-working-with-immigrant-clients-june-2026/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Cultural Competence,Ethics,Health Equity
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