Nia Counseling and Family Services, PLLC: Your Partner in Mental Health
CE'S
- Disparities and Culturally Specific Interventions in African American Mental Health: My episode of the agent's of change podcast for CE credit where I explore disparities in African American mental health care, discuss Afrocentric therapy methods, and how to apply culturally specific strategies to address systemic barriers and promote trust.. ($25)
2. Depression and African Americans: This course looks at depression within the black population and how socioeconomic status (SES) impacts black youths and adults. ($11.94)
3. African American Men and Mental Health: Client and Clinician Therapeutic Dyad (1 credit hour): This course offers clinical guidance and discussion for mental health clinicians who work and collaborate with African American men. The course highlights the importance of Afrocentric values, including mutuality, emotional connection, and spirituality. Challenges of marginalization, oppression, and racism are explored along with other barriers to care. The course offers three frameworks for practice: social determinants of health, intersectionality, and narrative practice.($5.99)
4. Black Kids Matter: PlayBased Strategies to Support Black Youth Experiencing Racial Trauma: Participants will leave this workshop with an awareness of play themes associated with racial trauma in Black youth and creative play therapy interventions to support Black youth experiencing racial trauma in any playroom and beyond.
5. Serving Black Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence (5 credit hours): This course explores advocacy for Black women survivors of intimate partner violence and offers strategies that are survivor-centered, culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and strengths-based. ($29.95)
psychotherapy cultural certifications/ trainings
- Effective Black Parenting Facillitator Training: Week-long virtual workshops train and certify people who work for schools, community agencies and religious groups to deliver national model parenting skill-building programs to Educate Blakc parents by enhancing their parenting skills.
2. NTU Training: NTU psychotherapy is based on the core principles of ancient African and Afrocentric world view, nurtured through African American culture, and augmented by concepts and techniques of Western psychology. NTU psychotherapy is spiritually based and aims to assist people and systems to become authentic and balanced within a shared energy and essence that is in alignment with natural order.
3. BIPOC Brain Spotting: a type of counseling that uses brainspotting to help Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) heal trauma and other emotional and mental health challenges.
4. EMDR Therapy with an Afrocentric Critical Race Perspective: Utilizing an Afrocentric Critical Race perspective, case studies of African American clients who received EMDR are critically examined. Emphasis is placed on clinician positionality in alleviating oppression-based trauma and clinical implications for promoting anti-oppressive EMDR practice with African American clients.
pROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
- National Black Child Institute : We are the only national organization focused solely on the unique attributes and needs of Black children, birth through age 8. We exist to fight for the creation of an equitable and just future for Black children and families.
2. National Association of Black Social Workers: A community of black social workers who are committed to enhancing the quality of life and empowering people of African ancestry through advocacy, human services delivery, and research.
3. Association of Black Psychologist: A communiyt of black psychologist, scholars, practitioners, students, artists, activists, and visionaries dedicated to the well-being of people of African descent.