Friday May 9, 2025
An Interactive Presentation with Live Attendance via Virtual Platform
Understanding Bias without Shame
How to Utilize Differences to Form Connections as a Therapist
This program qualifies for 6 CE Contact Hours
Today, more than than ever, mental health practitioners must be equipped with a culturally sensitive framework. Cultural Humility is of paramount importance in the clinical space.
Current discourse has appropriately centered on marginalized groups finding a voice. This workshop aims to stretch the present dialogue into aspects of culture that mental health practitioners encounter in the clinical setting. These include, but are not limited to: immigration status, country of origin, subculture/tribe of origin, religion, language, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, and skin color.
This presentation will ask participants to self-reflect on their own cultural awareness and humility in order to enhance their practice and multicultural sensitivity.
| 9am-10:30am | Setting the Stage: Creating a shared understanding on prejudice and privilege while addressing one’s own beliefs and experiences. |
| 10:30-10:45am | Break |
| 10:45am-12:15pm | More than Surface Level: Diving deeper beyond preconceived and limited notions of cultural competence to what Cultural Humility fully encompasses. |
| 12:15-12:45pm | Lunch Break |
| 12:45-2:15pm | Client Perspective: A look into how clients may perceive their therapist, and how a therapist’s personal reflection can have a positive impact. |
| 2:15-2:30pm | Break |
| 2:30-4pm | Therapist Perspective: Developing safe spaces for clients while protecting therapeutic boundaries. |
KAREN LANDMANN, LCSW – CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER
Karen Landmann is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Manhattan. Educated at Columbia University, she has been in the field for 27 years. Her clientele consists primarily of persons dealing with depression, trauma, and chronic illness. They come from a great variety of ethnic and cultural origins.
Ms. Landmann, an immigrant to the United States herself, is multicultural, speaks 16 languages, and has lived or traveled on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. She completed a study program in the Soviet Union in 1989 and participated in a Canadian program similar to the Peace Corps in Suriname in 1991-92. Her original curriculum for AIDS orphans is being used in over 60 countries. She has worked in Uganda, South Africa, Ethiopia, Paris, Malaysia, and the Dominican Republic on assignments related to this curriculum.
Karen has conducted CE presentations at NYU Silver School of Social Work Office of Global and Lifelong Learning, National Association of Social Workers New York City (NASW-NYC), Hudson Valley Professional Development, and GoodTherapy. She has also delivered keynote presentations at Convenings of Crisis Intervention Personnel and has numerous peer-reviewed publications, including Psychoanalytic Social Work and a book chapter in Poverty and Street Children in East Africa (Edward Mellen Press).
For more information please call 410-433-8861 ext. 140
Inspirit Counseling Services, Inc.
info@inspiritmaryland.org
Registration
Early Discount Fee: $99 (prior to March 30, 2025)
Regular Fee: $125 (March 31, 2025 – May 2, 2025)
Registration Deadline: May 2, 2025