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• Trama Resource Team Book Group

  • When
    Tue, March 10, 2026
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom

  Trauma Resource Team Book Group

  The TRT are launching a book group with a difference.  We’d love you to join us!

  
  

  

  The Trauma Resource Team (TRT) is an active group within Marin CAMFT, where members support each other to expand their knowledge and experience working with trauma.  For 2026 we are introducing a book club alongside our other offerings, which will work as follows:

  Each book group will be led by an MCamft member who selects a book that focuses on an aspect of trauma they are interested in, and they will lead the discussion for that month.  Members can sign up to join in for just one time or each time, whatever works for your schedule.  We want to come together in community, share our knowledge and learn something new.

  Interested Marin CAMFT members should please check your email for the announcement of this group, to find the link to the form to sign up. Can't find the email? Reach out to community@marincamft.org for assistance.

  
  
  

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• Friday CE Series: Cultural Humility in Clinical Practice: Buffering against Behaving from Bias

  • When
    Fri, March 13, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom
  • Registered
    41 registrants

  Register

  Explore bias and increase awareness for working across cultures

  Cultural Humility in Clinical Practice: Buffering against Behaving from Bias

  Presented by Kelly Koo, PhD

  2 CEs available

  Free for Marin CAMFT members, RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members, and BHRS staff!

  This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity. 

  PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.

  
  

  Marin CAMFT is grateful to Marin County Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral Health and Recovery Services for co-sponsoring this event.

  

  Workshop Description

  
  As social beings, we clinicians will inevitably engage in interpersonally biased behaviors. Cultural humility is an approach we can apply to clinical practice that allows us to accept this inevitability, and yet put our efforts into building awareness and an intentional practice that can support preventing biased behaviors. This training will facilitate a nonjudgmental understanding of how our behaviors exist within the contexts of our social worlds and therefore will at times be biased, irrelevant of intentions. The nonjudgmental stance will include an overview of the rationale of why it is both difficult and important to discuss microaggressions/biased behaviors in therapy. Participants will learn a framework that supports a mindful (vs. mindless) response to when we commit, observe, or are told about a microaggression/biased behavior in a clinical setting, in order to engage in active and intentional repair and be accountable for our actions, especially when in positions of power, i.e., the therapist. These will be framed as acts of cultural humility. 
  
  This training is intended for an intermediate or advanced therapist audience given the time constraint of this training does not allow for a comprehensive review of the rationale for why identity factors are important in clinical care nor will the research evidence of the harmful impacts of microaggressions or other biased behaviors and discriminatory acts be reviewed. In other words, agreement with the importance of identity and societal factors in effective psychotherapy is necessary as this training’s focus will not be to persuade participants into considering identities in clinical practice.  This training is designed to increase willingness to discuss these sometimes avoided topics to support building a therapeutic alliance that includes the consideration of the unavoidable factors of our identities to promote interactions with cultural humility.
  
  

  Educational Goals

  Cultural humility is an approach that allows us to accept our imperfect humanness and put our best efforts into building awareness and an intentional practice that can support preventing biased behaviors. This training will facilitate a nonjudgmental understanding of how our behaviors exist within the contexts of our social worlds, and therefore will at times be biased. Participants will learn a framework that supports a mindful (vs. mindless) response to when we commit, observe, or are told about a microaggression/biased behavior in a clinical setting, in order to engage in active and intentional repair.
  
  

  Learning Objectives

  Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
  

  1. Describe cultural humility and its relevance to effective clinical care
  2. Explain a nonjudgmental rationale for common avoidance reactions to biased behaviors/microaggressions
  3. Apply an accountability-based framework to mindfully responding to microaggressions in clinical care
     
     
     

  Presenter Kelly Koo, PhD 

  Kelly Koo, Ph.D. (she/her) is a clinical psychologist, licensed in California (PSY27845) and has 20 years of experience facilitating vulnerable and connecting dialogue on identity, power, and oppression to advance equity. She has multiple peer-reviewed publications primarily focused on identity, culture, and trauma. Kelly received her bachelor’s degree from University of California, Berkeley and her MS and PhD from the University of Washington. Dr. Koo spent almost 10 years supporting the mental health of diverse veterans in the Veterans Affairs health care systems in the Bay Area. Currently, Dr. Koo provides consultation, training, and coaching for individuals, teams, leaders, and organizations, supporting the mental health of diverse communities through an equity and inclusion lens.  Specifically, Kelly provides clinical consultation and coaching for clinicians who seek to provide clinical care with a deep awareness of and intentionality away from bias. She also serves as the Graduate Medical Education staff psychologist at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA, where she provides strategic mental health programming and direct mental health care for resident physicians. Kelly also provides clinical supervision for PsyD students at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA., and in her private practice, Dr. Koo provides evidence-based psychotherapy for diverse adults with trauma, using a cultural humility framework. To learn more about Dr. Koo, visit her website www.drkellykoo.com.

  
  

  Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.

  
  

  You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
  

  Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

  Date: Friday, March 13
  Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

  Cost: Free for current Marin CAMFT members, reciprocal chapter members, and BHRS staff (registration code required for reciprocal and BHRS attendees), $30 for non-members.
  Location:  Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.

  Register for Cultural Humility in Clinical Practice: Buffering against Behaving from Bias 

  
  

  Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
  

  For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
  

  • Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
    
    
  • Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
    
    
  • Refund Policy: Our refund policy for paid registrations requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary.  Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

  • Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
    
    
  • Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
    

  
  

  
  Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
  
  

  
  
  

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• Friday CE Series: Understanding Diabetes and Mental Health through The Eight Dimensions of Wellness

  • When
    Fri, April 10, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom
  • Registered
    19 registrants

  Register

  Learn therapeutic approaches for supporting clients with diabetes

  Understanding Diabetes and Mental Health through The Eight Dimensions of Wellness

  Presented by Dawn Davis, LMFT

  2 CEs available

  Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!

  Registration for this "live" training does not include access to a recording. Please read the full event description for all registration terms including refund policy.

  PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.

  
  

  Workshop Description

  Diabetes is a highly common health condition with higher occurrences in individuals with mental health conditions. While it is so common, therapists may have a limited understanding of how diabetes impacts mental health, unique challenges their clients may be going through, and areas of concern to potentially explore. This training will begin with discussing unique experiences of stigma that individuals with diabetes encounter which impacts their mental health. There will then be an overview on the Eight Dimension of Wellness, with discussion on how each dimension is impacted by a diabetes diagnosis. Participants will then learn examples of specific questions to ask, topics to explore, and interventions to utilize when working with clients living with diabetes.

  This training is applicable to therapists of any level who are interested in enhancing their knowledge around the Eight Dimensions of Wellness, and addressing specific concerns with diabetic clients.
  
  

  Educational Goals

  Participants will gain an understanding of what diabetes is, types of diabetes, and the day-to-day physical and emotional experiences related to hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia. Participants will better understand how diabetic individuals are impacted by unique stigmas/myths, and how diabetic visibility challenges those stigmas. This training focuses on the Wellness Model, and the bidirectional impacts between diabetes and each of the Eight Dimensions of wellness, including interventions to utilize for each dimension. 
  
  

  Learning Objectives

  Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
  

  1. Describe unique experiences of stigma that individuals with diabetes experience impacting their overall mental health.

  2. Define the term Wellness, including differences from the definition of Health.

  3. Define each of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness.

  4. Explain the bidirectional impact between diabetes and each dimension of wellness.

  5. Assess each dimension of wellness for unique barriers that impact diabetes, including SES status, cultural/spiritual differences, and access to medical care.  

  6. Apply specific interventions to utilize when working with clients with diabetes. 

     
     
     
     

  Presenter Dawn Davis, LMFT

  Dawn Davis, LMFT is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and Certified Geek Therapist currently working as a full-time private practice clinician for her practice, Therapy That Gets Me, LLC. She has a background of six years in a community mental health setting as a clinician, clinical supervisor, and assistant director, during which she provided supervision and in-house trainings to clinicians, certified peer specialists, nurse navigators, and behavioral health nurses. Dawn’s experience utilizing the Eight Dimensions of Wellness includes facilitating a weekly Outpatient Health and Wellness group from 2020 through 2023, focused on supporting clients with a combination of chronic health conditions and severe and persistent mental illness through use of the Wellness Model. This group primarily consisted of diabetic individuals. Her oversight of nurse navigator programs also consisted primarily of utilizing wellness with diabetic individuals. Dawn has been providing continuing education trainings for various entities on a variety of topics since 2024.

  
  

  PLEASE NOTE:  By registering for this event you are consenting to a recording being made which may include your voice and/or image. By registering for this event, you are agreeing for your likeliness to possibly be used by Marin CAMFT.

  Also, while we plan to produce this training as an on-demand program, registration for the different formats of a program is offered separately and each is sold through a different platform. Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version. If you cannot attend "live" on the training date listed here, please do not register for this Zoom training, and instead, check Marin CAMFT On-Demand for the recorded program at a later date. If you register for this "live" training and are unable to attend, please cancel your registration per the terms below which govern our refund policies for this event.

  
  

  You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
  

  Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

  Date: Friday, April 10
  Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

  Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members.
  Location:  Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.
  

  
  

  Register for: Understanding Diabetes and Mental Health through The Eight Dimensions of Wellness

  
  

  
  

  Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
  

  For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs Arianna Sifuentes.
  

  • Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
    
    
  • Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
    
    
  • Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant.  Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

  • Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
    
    
  • Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
    

  
  

  
  Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
  
  

  
  
  

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• Friday CE Series: Understanding Second Adolescence: Supporting LGBTQ+ Adults Who Grew up in Anti-Queerness

  • When
    Fri, June 12, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom
  • Registered
    1 registrant

  Register

  Expand your knowledge of the unique experiences of queer clients

  Understanding Second Adolescence: Supporting LGBTQ+ Adults Who Grew up in Anti-Queerness

  Presented by Adam Cohen, LMFT

  2 CEs available

  Free for Marin CAMFT members, RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members, and BHRS staff!

  This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity. 

  PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.

  Marin CAMFT is grateful to Marin County Department of Health and Human Services Behavioral Health and Recovery Services for co-sponsoring this event.

  

  Workshop Description

  
  Many LGBTQ+ adults enter therapy feeling “behind,” emotionally younger than their peers, or confused by the intensity of their relational, identity, and developmental experiences. These presentations are often misunderstood—or mispathologized—when they are, in fact, rooted in disrupted developmental processes caused by growing up in an anti-queer world.
  
  This training introduces "Second Adolescence" as a clinical and developmental understanding of the post-coming-out years many LGBTQ+ adults experience. "Second Adolescence" is a way to conceptualize this period as a necessary stage of growth and healing in which clients work to reclaim missed psychosocial experiences, repair the impact of chronic shame from anti-queer culture, and develop a more integrated, authentic sense of self.
  
  Participants in this training will explore how heteronormativity, anti-queerness, internalized shame, and the need for concealment interrupt normative adolescent development, often resulting in a developmental “freeze” that reemerges later in adulthood. The training will focus on how these dynamics show up clinically and how therapists can respond with clarity, attunement, and clinical intention for their LGBTQ+ clients.
  
  

  Educational Goals

  This training aims to provide a trauma-informed understanding for treating LGBTQ+ adults navigating the post-coming-out period often referred to as Second Adolescence. Participants will deepen their understanding of how growing up in heteronormativity and anti-queerness disrupts normative development and how these disruptions present in adulthood. Emphasis will be placed on translating theory into clinical practice, including how to conceptualize presenting concerns through a developmental lens, normalize delayed or intensified experiences, and support clients in reclaiming missed psychosocial milestones, healing shame, and fostering integration of their identity.
  
  

  Learning Objectives

  Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
  

  1. Describe "Second Adolescence" as a developmental and clinical lens through which to understand post-coming-out experiences of LGBTQ+ adults.
  2. Identify at least three ways internalized anti-queerness and chronic shame disrupt adolescent development and present clinically in adulthood for LGBTQ+ clients.
  3. Apply trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ affirmative interventions to support clients navigating missed developmental milestones, identity integration, and self-compassion during "Second Adolescence."
     
     
     

  Presenter Adam James Cohen, LMFT 

  Adam James Cohen, LMFT specializes in LGBTQ+ mental health. His private practice in San Francisco and Marin has focused on serving LGBTQ+ adults and adolescents since 2017. He developed Second Adolescence as a clinical framework for understanding and healing from the trauma of growing up queer in an anti-queer world. He is the executive producer and host of the podcast, Second Adolescence.

  
  

  Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.

  You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
  

  Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

  Date: Friday, June 12
  Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

  Cost: Free for current Marin CAMFT members, reciprocal chapter members, and BHRS staff (registration code required for reciprocal and BHRS attendees), $30 for non-members; $5 off if you have a referral code.
  Location:  Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.

  Register for: Understanding Second Adolescence:Supporting LGBTQ+ Adults Who Grew up in Anti-Queerness

  
  

  Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
  

  For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
  

  • Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
    
    
  • Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
    
    
  • Refund Policy: Our refund policy for paid registrations requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary.  Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

  • Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
    
    
  • Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
    

  
  

  
  Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
  
  

  
  
  

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• Friday CE Series: Career Counseling with Immigrant Bicultural Youth of Color

  • When
    Fri, September 11, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    online via Zoom

  Registration on this event will open soon. Please check back later.

  Engage with Liberation Psychology as a supportive framework for clients of color

  Empowering Futures: Career Counseling with Immigrant Bicultural Youth of Color Through a Liberation Psychology Framework

  Presented by 

  2 CEs available

  Free for Marin CAMFT members and RECAMFT reciprocal chapter members!

  This training will not be recorded. Please plan to attend the "live" session on Zoom if you are interested in this learning activity. 

  PLEASE NOTE: After you sign up here, you'll be sent instructions on how to complete a separate registration step with Zoom, which is how you will get your Zoom link. You can do that in advance, or right before the meeting begins. This registration step lets us more accurately track attendance in the Zoom meeting for our compliance purposes as a CE provider.

  
  

  Workshop Description

  
  This introductory level training introduces Liberation Psychology as a culturally responsive and socially grounded framework for working with immigrant and bicultural youth of color in career counseling and related clinical contexts. Many clinicians work with clients who are navigating complex intersections of culture, identity, family expectations, and systemic barriers that shape educational and vocational decision making. This training offers a structured lens for understanding these experiences while moving beyond purely individual level explanations of distress.

  Participants will be introduced to key concepts of Liberation Psychology including critical consciousness, problematization, de ideologization, recovery of historical memory, and praxis. These concepts will be translated into clinically relevant language and applied to career related concerns such as academic pressure, family obligation, identity conflict, internalized oppression, and limited access to opportunity. The training will emphasize how sociopolitical forces, immigration related stressors, and dominant cultural narratives can influence clients’ self perceptions, career choices, and sense of agency.

  Using a case example, the presenter will demonstrate how Liberation Psychology can be integrated into assessment, conceptualization, and intervention within therapeutic and career focused work. Practical strategies will be discussed for helping clients develop critical awareness, reconnect with cultural strengths, and make career decisions that are both contextually informed and personally meaningful.

  While the primary focus is on immigrant and bicultural youth, the framework is applicable to clinicians working with adults who continue to carry unresolved cultural and vocational tensions.

  This training is designed for licensed therapists seeking an introductory exposure to Liberation Psychology and its application in clinical and career related practice. No prior knowledge of Liberation Psychology is required. Attendees who work with adolescents, emerging adults, immigrants, or clients from marginalized communities may find this training particularly relevant. The presentation will be experiential, reflective, and clinically oriented, with attention to ethical and culturally responsive practice.
  
  

  Educational Goals

  This training provides an introduction to working with transgender youth who are experiencing self-harm and suicidal ideation.
  
  

  Learning Objectives

  Upon completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
  

  1. Identify at least three core concepts of Liberation Psychology and describe their relevance to clinical and career related work with immigrant and bicultural youth of color.
  2. Explain how sociopolitical context, cultural identity, and systemic barriers can influence vocational distress, identity conflict, and career decision making in therapeutic settings.
  3. Apply Liberation Psychology informed principles to a case example by identifying culturally responsive assessment considerations and intervention strategies.
  4. Demonstrate at least one clinically applicable strategy that supports client agency, critical awareness, and integration of cultural strengths in career related counseling.
     
     
     

  Presenter Cecile Bhang, PhD 

  Cecile Hyewon Bhang, Ph.D., Psy.D. (she/her) is a licensed psychologist, researcher, and educator with extensive clinical and academic experience. She serves as an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Department at Sonoma State University and has worked across university counseling centers, community mental health agencies, and private practice settings focusing on working immigrant and bicultural and multicultural individuals and families. Dr. Bhang’s clinical work is grounded in culturally responsive, integrative approaches that center relational and contextual understanding, including Relational Cultural Theory along with skills-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

  Dr. Bhang’s scholarship focuses on culturally contextualized frameworks for understanding identity development, resilience, and career related concerns among marginalized youth and young adults. Her work bridges theories of culture, power, and psychological well being to enhance clinical practice and training. She provides consultation and professional trainings on multicultural competence, social justice oriented practice, and the application of Liberation Psychology in counseling.

  In addition to her academic and clinical roles, Dr. Bhang maintains a private practice and provides bilingual services in Korean and English. She is committed to advancing equitable, strengths based mental health care and mentoring future clinicians. For more information about her work and clinical services, please visit www.drcbhang.com.

  
  

  Registering for this Zoom training does not include access to any recording or an on-demand version.

  
  

  You will be sent instructions on how to register with Zoom to get your personal Zoom link to use for attendance. Please read the email confirmation you receive after signing up on the Marin CAMFT website for these instructions.
  

  Attendance at the live event in full and completion of the evaluation at the end qualifies for 2 hours of Continuing Education (2 CEs).

  Date: Friday, September 11
  Time: 12:00 to 2:00 pm Pacific

  Cost: Free for Marin CAMFT members and reciprocal members, $30 for non-members.
  Location:  Online via Zoom. Instructions for registering with Zoom, in order to receive your Personal Zoom Join Link, will be sent in your confirmation message from Marin CAMFT. You will need to complete that second Zoom-registration step in order to receive your Zoom Link by email.
  

  
  

  Register for Empowering Futures: Career Counseling with Immigrant Bicultural Youth of Color Through a Liberation Psychology Framework

  
  

  
  

  Additional Information about Marin CAMFT CE Programs
  

  For more information about the Friday Continuing Education Series or about joining the Marin CAMFT Continuing Education Committee, please contact our Director of Programs.
  

  • Continuing Education: This workshop meets the qualifications for 2 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and/or LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These CEs will be provided by Marin CAMFT (CAMFT Provider # 56895), which is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs. We regret that at this time we are not able to provide CE credits for Licensed Psychologists. Participants must attend the full duration of the program (on Zoom, or in person, per event details above) and complete the course evaluation to receive the CE completion certificate. Marin CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program and its contents. Contact our Director of Programs for more information.
    
    
  • Continuing Education Goal: Marin CAMFT is committed to offering continuing education courses to train LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs to treat any client in an ethically and clinically sound manner based upon current accepted standards of practice.
    
    
  • Refund Policy: Our refund policy requires a $20 processing fee, and we must be notified in advance of the event if you would like to cancel. We do not provide refunds in case of non-attendance by the registrant. Please allow up to a week from requesting the refund to it being processed. Participants who register for free may choose to cancel by emailing info@marincamft.org if they will not be attending, though this is not necessary.  Please contact our Director of Programs with any questions.
    
    
  • Request for Accommodations: If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the Director of Programs.

  • Grievance Procedure: Marin CAMFT will respond to complaints in a reasonable, ethical and timely manner, when submitted by program attendees in writing to the Director of Programs.
    
    
  • Anti-Discrimination Policy: Marin CAMFT shall not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, creed, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, ability, or other prohibited basis. Marin CAMFT does not require attendees to adhere to any particular religion or creed in order to participate in training. Marin CAMFT will not promote or advocate for a single modality of treatment that is discriminatory or likely to harm clients based on current accepted standards or practice.
    

  
  

  
  Continuing education credits are available for attendance in the Zoom presentation. You must stay on the Zoom meeting for the entirety of the training and complete the course evaluation afterward in order to receive a completion certificate. Because of the requirement to attend the training in full, if you attempt to log in to the Zoom late, after the training is already underway, you may not be admitted. Please log onto the event promptly at the listed start time.
  
  

  
  
  

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