
Beyond Events
Why Attend Beyond Events?
Beyond the Session is a conversation series designed to foster dialogue among clinicians on challenging topics that we rarely have space to address. In Relationship HQ’s commitment to challenge the status quo of traditional psychotherapy, Beyond the Session events provide a space for clinicians to learn, examine, explore, and shift the beliefs, values, and practices that underscore our current way of doing psychotherapy, with particular attention to decentering whiteness.
Through experiences that provoke self reflection, Beyond the Session events aim to support clinicians in “doing our work,” and encourage each other and our profession to evolve in our consciousness and cultural proficiency.
Especially for:
Clinicians
Beyond the Session: Navigating Power and Privilege in Psychotherapy (Part 1)
This session will offer clinicians the opportunity to:
- Reflect on their personal beliefs about privilege
- Locate themselves across a variety of identities
- Intra- and interpersonally explore relative privilege
Beyond the Session: Navigating Power and Privilege in Psychotherapy (Part 2)
Since therapy is often considered a microcosm of society at large, clinicians have a responsibility to acknowledge, confront, and protest the ways in which we, like society, have also failed to fully see and embrace those in our care, those who we serve. Building on Beyond the Session: Navigating Power and Privilege in Psychotherapy Part 1, this session will explore and offer a framework for addressing dynamics of power and privilege in the therapeutic context with particular focus on ways to address race, white-supremacy, and anti-blackness in clinical work.
This session will offer clinicians the opportunity to:
- Discuss challenges in navigating power, privilege, and equity in therapeutic contexts
- Explore a framework for how to think about power, privilege, and equity in the therapeutic dyad
- Discuss how to apply that framework to reflect on and explore race, white-supremacy, and anti-blackness in clinical work
Please note:
you must have attended a Beyond the Session: Navigating Power and Privilege in Psychotherapy Part 1 session in order to attend this event.
Beyond the Session: The Clinician’s Vulnerability and Its Place in Psychotherapy
This session will offer clinicians an opportunity to:
- Develop an understanding of how their chosen model utilizes or ignores their own vulnerability and identity
- Consider how current theoretical perspectives uphold ideology white supremacy and promote whiteness
- Explore the risks and rewards of clinician vulnerability and transparency in the therapy space
Beyond the Session: Does Emotionally Focused Therapy Address the Needs of Black Couples?
Bukky Kolawole, PsyD and the Relationship HQ Team invite you to a conversation with Marjorie Nightingale, JD, LMFT and Christiana Awosan, PhD, LMFT the authors of Emotionally Focused Therapy: A Culturally Sensitive Approach for African American Heterosexual Couples. Join us for a critical discussion on a culturally sensitive application of EFT with African American and other racially diverse couples.
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Wonderful! This was my first time going to therapy. I felt comfortable immediately and made a great deal of progress in a short period of time.
RHQ Therapy Client