Supervisors play an influential role in helping and supporting supervisees to develop an intersectional lens, socio-culturally attune to clients’ lived experiences, and have meaningful conversations about diversity. Learning to engage in antiracist supervision practices requires supervisors to strengthen their skills to discuss race and ethnicity in meaningful ways.
From a systems perspective, client centered care involves understanding therapeutic issues from client(s)’s societal and relational contexts. For mental health clinicians, this requires also learning to think about the ways in which one’s own context, culture, and identities shape their lived experiences and ways of knowing. It is also necessary for clinicians to develop skills for integrating their clients’ and their own social identities into therapeutic conversations.
One of the ways to engage in conversations about race and ethnicity is to add nuance to how we think about culture, and not over-conflate it with one’s race and ethnicity.
This workshop will focus on using a socio-culturally attuned lens to discuss race, ethnicity, and culture within the supervisory setting—situating these social factors in relation to time, place, and space.
During this training participants will:
- Increase their knowledge about the ways in which race and ethnicity as social identity markers organize and influence lived experiences
- Learn to conceptualize culture as dynamic and fluid and connected to time, place, and space
- Practice using a socio-culturally attuned lens to conceptualize the diversity within supervision cases
- Practice discussing racial, ethnic, and cultural factors in clinical supervision cases
Lana Kim, PhD, LMFT is Associate Professor and Director of the Marriage, Couple, and Family Therapy Program at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She is also a licensed marriage and family therapist and an AAMFT approved clinical supervisor practicing in Portland, OR. In Dr. Kim’s clinical work, she draws from narrative approaches and socio-emotional relationship therapy (SERT), and she is interested in the ways in which power, culture, and larger social contexts shape identities, lived experience, relationships, and therapeutic process. Dr. Kim holds a specialization in medical family therapy and her research interests include second generation Asian-American families, parent-child relationships, couple therapy, integrative care, and culturally responsive MFT practices.
