Sonja Sutherland – Clinical Supervision: Training the Next Generation of Culturally Responsive Therapists

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Speaker: Sonja Sutherland, PhD, LPC

Duration: 1 Hour 06 Minutes

Format: Audio and Video

Copyright: Feb 24, 2023  

Media Type: Digital Seminar

Description

Supervisors play a key role in the improved and intentional cultural responsiveness training of the current and future generation of clinicians. In this session, view expert Sonja Sutherland and explore ways to engage in meaningful assessments of supervisors’ and supervisees’ cultural responsiveness. In an honest and frank discussion, you’ll discover ways to facilitate conversations around race, discrimination, and overall cultural responsiveness development to help ensure better care for culturally diverse, marginalized, and traumatized populations.

Speaker

Sonja Sutherland, PhD, LPC, trains clinicians and supervisors in the development of cross-cultural responsivity. Renowned in the field, she has provided individual, group, and family therapeutic services in many different settings for adolescents and adults for 20 years. Within the last 6 years, Dr. Sutherland has provided training, researched, and published in the areas of racial trauma, cultural competence development, the provision of culturally responsive clinical intervention and supervision, and social justice advocacy. Dr. Sutherland’s primary clinical practice centers on providing clinical supervision services to post-masters clinicians pursuing licensure.

Dr. Sutherland has served as a guest lecturer, trainer, and presenter for various organizations including Kaiser, ESPYR, Telehealth Certification Institute, the Georgia Psychological Association and many others. Dr. Sutherland is a core faculty member at Walden University as well as the founder and CEO of Legacy Changers Worldwide, an organization dedicated to providing family education and mental and emotional wellness resources. In addition, Dr. Sutherland provides continuing education workshops and supervision for various organizations, as well as being the Chief Diversity Consultant to the President for Richmont Graduate University. She is also a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association for Multicultural Counseling & Development (AMCD), the Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors (ACES), and the Licensed Professional Counselor Association of Georgia (LPCA-GA).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sonja Sutherland is the founder and CEO of Legacy Changers Training Institute for Mental Health Equity & Justice, LLC., Diversity Dialogues, and Legacy changers Worldwide, LLC. She has an employment relationship with Adams State University. Dr. Sutherland receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sonja Sutherland is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Counseling Association of Georgia, the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors, and the Association for Multicultural Development.

Objectives

1. Employ a developmental model with supervisees for furthering their cultural responsiveness development.
2. Assess supervisory cultural responsiveness readiness and ways to identify and address supervisor areas of growth.
3. Employ strategies to mediate the impact of interpersonal discrimination and structural racism on supervisees of color.

Outline

• Defining cultural responsiveness in supervision
• The interaction of awareness, worldview, and advocacy within the supervisory relationship
• Establishing connections between race and gender incivility, and trauma
• Identifying supervisors’ and supervisees’ developmental needs
• Overview and application of The Cross-Cultural Responsive-Practice Mindset:  A Civility-Centered Developmental Model for supervisors’ and supervisees’ cultural responsiveness growth
• Developing an ongoing, life-long, and social-justice driven perspective in personal and clinical work
• Research, risks and limitations

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Educators
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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