This webinar in partnership with Umbrella Collective will focus on mental health clinical information that seeks to be inclusive of LGBTQIA2S+ identities, authenticity, power, and difference in an anti-oppressive framework. This training serves to increase critical awareness of overt and covert marginalization dynamics within personal lives, society, and within professional work within each organization/s. The goal is to build supportive resources and relationships within the culture of the self that extends to professional practice within organization/s that promote an inclusive, anti-oppressive stance to benefit everyone.
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Li Brookens is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP), World Professional Association for Transgender Health SOC8 Certified Member, and a Clinical Hypnotherapist providing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) trainings to organizations as well as psychotherapy to individuals, families, and groups in private practice. Li is out personally and professionally as a trans, nonbinary, 2nd generation white-assumed Latine, able-bodied person. Out of a vision and drive to create a group practice that weaved intersectionality into the fabric of the dynamic work with each client, they founded Umbrella Collective (est. 2016). The Umbrella Collective is a private group psychotherapy and DEI training practice in Boulder CO.
Virginia Sanford has worked with adolescents, adults and families in a range of different settings from wilderness and residential therapy to community mental health. She has worked extensively with adventure and equine therapy as a way to facilitate experiential growth and deepen relationships with self and the world around us. Virginia is passionate about working with grief and loss as it relates to trauma, identity, ability and the multitude of ways that we experience loss as humans. Change can be hard and it can be scary, but it can also be exciting and fulfilling. Virginia works to help create space to access the range of experiences that arise through the therapeutic process. Virginia's clinical approach draws from several theoretical orientations including Attachment based, Trauma informed and Client-Centered lens.
