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Indiana Counseling Association Presents The Conversations that Shape Us Conference: What You Wish Other Mental Health Counselors Understood

The Pain and Payoff of Exploring Bias in Culturally Responsive Counseling Supervision

Rhemma Payne, PhD, LMHC
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Review and understand current trends regarding cultural competency standards.

  • Describe the CRCS model of broaching, and explore the use of vignettes to broach topics of multiculturalism and ethics in counseling supervision.

  • Discuss (dis)comfort with integrating culturally responsive strategies in clinical supervision.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is for attendees to have a better understanding of cultural competency standards, how to be more culturally responsive in clinical supervision, and to learn a structured model to broach multiculturalism and ethics topics in their role as clinical supervisor.

Description

This presentation relates to the professional development of counselors and particularly aligns with this year’s conference theme, “The Conversations That Shape Us”, through a thoughtful examination of the benefits of intentional, yet uncomfortable, conversations about bias and cultural responsiveness. Moving beyond the acknowledgment of cultural differences, this presentation invites the exploration of deepening learning toward application and critical examination. Building from the lead presenter’s experience with meaningful conversations about bias and cultural interactions, participants will engage with vignettes and reflective practice within a framework that explores the level of risk necessary to engage with these topics. Furthermore, this presentation invites counselors-in-training, counselor educators, and clinical supervisors to examine their own discomfort with broaching sensitive topics and leads participants into discussion of bringing vulnerability, risk, and excitement to the counselor identity development process.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Rhemma Payne, PhD, LMHC
Dr. Rhemma Payne holds a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision, a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling, and a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in Applied Health Science with a concentration in Human Development and Family Studies. She is a licensed mental health counselor in Indiana with years of clinical experience across diverse settings, including inpatient psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs, community mental health, in-home intensive services, and college counseling. She has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric populations using individual, family, and group modalities. Dr. Payne is a National Certified Counselor (NCC), Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS), Board-Certified Telemental Health Provider (BC-TMH), and a 2020 Doctoral Fellow with the National Board for Certified Counselors Foundation (NBCC-F). She also serves as a Subject Matter Expert for NBCC’s national counseling certification and licensure examinations. Dr. Payne is trained in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting (BSP), and Beginning II in Somatic Experiencing (SE). Her clinical approach is grounded in cognitive-behavioral and relational-cultural theoretical orientations, which she integrates into her conference presentations alongside the topics of clinical supervision, ethics, and professional identity development.