Virtual Webinar On-Demand

Browning Your Counseling: Working with Latinx Populations

1.75 CE Hours Cultural Competency Introductory
Browning Your Counseling: Working with Latinx Populations

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Educational Goal

Participants will gain skills in working with Chicanx/ Latinx clients.

Description

This workshop will discuss an integrative approach to working in a culturally responsive manner with Chicanx/Latinx populations and highlight tools related to “Browning” your counseling. An awareness of how traditional, individualistic concepts in mental health can be culturally incongruent for Chicanx/Latinx populations will be explored. Addressing and responding to issues of identity development, family dynamics, and spirituality in psychotherapy will be outlined.

Target Audience

  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals

Presenters

Manuel X. Zamarripa

Manuel X. Zamarripa, Ph.D., LPC is the director and co-founder of the Institute of Chicana/o/x Psychology based in Austin, TX where he conducts community workshop practices as well as professional development training for educators and mental health professionals on issues related to Chicana/o/x wellness, cultural identity, and mental health from a Chicana/o/x framework. Manuel’s publications and presentations in psychology and education focus on Chicana/o/x well-being, racial responsiveness, cultural revitalization, social justice, and leadership.

Dr. Zamarripa is a licensed professional counselor and supervisor (Texas) and received his doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his master’s in Counseling Psychology from Our Lady of the Lake University, and his bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Notre Dame.