Culture, Identity, and Clinical Practice

What to expect: This 6-hour workshop invites reflection on culture, identity, and lived experience to better understand the lens we bring into clinical and professional relationships. We will explore how privilege, bias, intersectionality, and microaggressions show up in everyday practice and examine ethical responsibility as a relational practice shaped by power and context. The focus is honest cultural awareness and more honest, grounded presence in clinical relationships.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Reflect on how cultural roots, identity, and lived experience shape professional perspective and relationships
• Recognize how power, privilege, bias, intersectionality, and microaggressions show up in everyday practice
• Examine ethical responsibility as an ongoing relational practice

Registration: $125.00 - $175.00 + tax
6 Ethics in Cultural Awareness CEUs 
We use a community-centered sliding scale (adapted from Worts & Cunning) to keep the training accessible while honoring the labor that goes into it. The scale relies on honesty, respect, and accountability. Please choose the rate that reflects your financial access. Paying more when you are able helps subsidize participation for others, keeps spots open for those with fewer resources, and supports the sustainability of these workshops

Meet the Facilitator
Vanya Garabedian, LCSW has over 20 years of experience in the mental and behavioral health field. She founded Intentional Path Counseling to create learning spaces that feel warm, inclusive, and genuinely engaging. Her work centers respect, curiosity, and a steady commitment to supporting providers and the communities they serve.

What others have said after attending this workshop:
"An extremely well organized presenter with thought provoking subjects in areas not often discussed in trainings regarding culture." Ellen J. Shabshai Fox, LCSW 

CEUs: Approved provider by the New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Practice Board
License No: CCE0202111
Also accepted by the New Mexico Social Work Board

Refund Policy
Cancel a minimum of 7 days before the workshop for a full-value credit towards a future workshop or a refund (minus a 5% processing fee).