Treating Cultural & Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices
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- Speaker:
- Chinwé Williams, PhD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 02 Minutes
- Copyright:
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09 Oct, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150440
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
- Access:
- Never expires.
Description
As the world around us continues to shift, clients living at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities may be navigating additional cultural stressors and finding it harder to show up in spaces where they don’t feel safe. Treating trauma that stems from experiences of racism and ambiguous loss can be challenging. These losses run deep in the lives of minoritized clients, but they’re generally unrecognized by society, and despite the pervasiveness of racialized stress and discrimination in the everyday lives of people of color, many clinicians don’t feel adequately equipped to address the trauma of racism. Through interactive discussion and experiential exercises, participants will gain the knowledge to develop culturally informed strategies to treat Black, Indigenous, and other clients of color who’ve experienced racial stress or trauma. You’ll also learn:
- What culturally responsive therapy looks like in practice
- How to work with racial trauma in an embodied way
- How to incorporate multiple frameworks into culturally responsive practices, including EMDR, IFS, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
CPD
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
This online program is worth 2.25 hours CPD.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Treating Cultural & Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices (540.7 KB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Treating Cultural and Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices (186.7 KB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Treating Cultural & Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices - French (540.7 KB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Treating Cultural and Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices - French (186.7 KB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Treating Cultural & Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices - Italian (540.7 KB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Treating Cultural and Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices - Italian (186.7 KB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Treating Cultural & Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices - German (540.7 KB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Treating Cultural and Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices - German (186.7 KB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Treating Cultural & Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices - Spanish (540.7 KB) | 17 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Treating Cultural and Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices - Spanish (186.7 KB) | 23 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Chinwé Williams, PhD Related seminars and products
Chinwé Williams, PhD, is a licensed and board-certified EMDR therapist, and counselor educator and supervisor with close to two decades of experience supporting individuals in trauma recovery. She has a strong commitment to helping clients overcome various forms of trauma and anxiety. As a published researcher, author, consultant, and educator, Dr. Williams brings a wealth of knowledge to her work.
Her expertise lies in somatically focused approaches that teach clients how to regulate the nervous system and utilize the body for healing from various traumatic experiences. Formerly a faculty member at Georgia State University, the University of Central Florida, and Rollins College, she specializes in trauma recovery, stress/anxiety management, adolescent and women’s wellness, and equity-centered trauma-informed education.
Dr. Williams is actively involved in contributing to the field of behavioral health. She consults with several corporate and nonprofit organizations, and school districts. Dr. Williams also serves on the advisory board for Brightline, a telemedicine company providing mental health support to kids, teens, and families. In this role, she consults on the best practices to support diverse youth and families through programs, content development, and care team training.
She is the author of three books, SEEN: Healing Despair and Anxiety in Kids and Teens Through The Power of Connection, Beyond the Spiral: Why You Shouldn’t Believe Everything Anxiety Tells You, and Calm, Courageous and Connected: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Emotionally Resilient Kids. As the owner of Meaningful Solutions Counseling & Consulting, a thriving private practice in Roswell, GA, Dr. Williams applies her expertise to address a broad range of trauma issues across many client demographics.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Chinwé Williams maintains a private practice, the co-owner of Southeastern Counselor Training Institute, and a presenter for Lyra Health. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Chinwé Williams is a subject matter expert with Orange.
Additional Info
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Objectives
- Recognize the hidden signs and symptoms of cultural and racial trauma and its psychological impacts.
- Develop assessment skills to respond to ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief of everyday racism in the lives of BIPOC clients.
- Develop strategies to build rapport and common clinician missteps to avoid.
- Build strategies for clinician self-reflection in developing cultural humility.
Outline
Hidden signs and symptoms of cultural and racialized trauma
Limitations of the research and potential risks of treatment
Avoiding the common clinician missteps around racialized trauma
Integrating racially-informed frameworks into common approaches to trauma treatment such as EMDR, IFS, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Target Audience
- Counsellors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counsellors
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