Clinical Considerations and Advocacy Strategies: Counselors As Co-Conspirators with LGBTGEQ+ Clients
Date/Time
6/1/2023 - 12/30/2040
Self-paced
Self-paced
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Event Type(s)
Home-Study Courses
Event Description
Location
Home Study Course: Online Learning
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EVENT:
This webinar will be informed by current data on working with members of the LGBTQ+ community addressing mental health through personal awareness and evidence based practice. Recommendations for counselors will be presented to support and advocate the LGBTQ+ community.
This webinar will be informed by current data on working with members of the LGBTQ+ community addressing mental health through personal awareness and evidence based practice. Recommendations for counselors will be presented to support and advocate the LGBTQ+ community.
The workshop is designed to help participants:
1. Deepen personal awareness of privilege and power within counseling relationships and advocacy work with intersectionally diverse queer and trans youth and adults;
2. Develop understanding of ways counselors can implement liberatory counseling and advocacy strategies in work with queer and trans clients; and
3.Strengthen advocate identity through workshopping an advocacy plan to directly serve their clients and communities.
PRESENTER:
Whitney P. Akers, PhD, LCMHC, NCC, ACS (She/They) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and the Director of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. A National Certified Counselor, an Approved Clinical Supervisor, and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (NC), Dr. Akers' clinical experience includes counseling in community agency, inpatient, spiritual care, hospital/integrated care, detention center, school, equine therapy, and private practice settings. Their research interests center on the ways in which people who identify as LGBTGEQ+ experience outness, and how their intersectionally diverse lived-experiences are impacted by the current sociopolitical climate in terms of access to safety, survival, connection, and personhood. Additionally, they engage in participatory action research strategies in an effort to support marginalized populations, challenge oppressive power structures, and enhance communal resiliency.
PROVIDER INFORMATION:
LCCNC
605 N. Terrace Place
Morganton, NC 28655
(919) 714-9025
info@lccnc.org
www.lccnc.org
Whitney P. Akers, PhD, LCMHC, NCC, ACS (She/They) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling and the Director of the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. A National Certified Counselor, an Approved Clinical Supervisor, and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (NC), Dr. Akers' clinical experience includes counseling in community agency, inpatient, spiritual care, hospital/integrated care, detention center, school, equine therapy, and private practice settings. Their research interests center on the ways in which people who identify as LGBTGEQ+ experience outness, and how their intersectionally diverse lived-experiences are impacted by the current sociopolitical climate in terms of access to safety, survival, connection, and personhood. Additionally, they engage in participatory action research strategies in an effort to support marginalized populations, challenge oppressive power structures, and enhance communal resiliency.
PROVIDER INFORMATION:
LCCNC
605 N. Terrace Place
Morganton, NC 28655
(919) 714-9025
info@lccnc.org
www.lccnc.org
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