Continuing Education for therapists with the Northstar Learning Lab:

Cultural Humility in a post-Roe Reality

This 3 CE course is approved for KY MFT, KY LPC & KY SW. CE Sponsor Approved Provider for Indiana Behavioral Health and Human Services Board.

Overview

Cultural Humility in a post-Roe reality: Responding to intersections of Mental and Physical Healthcare, Politics, and Clients’ Need for Safety

Presented by Frances Mican, LMFT

With a focus on restrictions to access to abortion and gender affirming care, this course considers how restricted autonomy and choice in physical healthcare touches our work in mental health. Taking a systemic perspective, this course supports an understanding of the relationship between mental and physical health, and considers options that mental health professionals have in walking with clients as they are impacted by oppressive forces. With a focus on reproductive and gender affirming care being stigmatized and criminalized, we will explore questions that can apply to these scenarios as well as others. How can we as mental health care providers maintain cultural humility in the face of these systemic challenges? What do clients seek to support their safety, well-being, and the therapeutic alliance, in mental health? How can providers support clients as they navigate and struggle in these systems? What do we do when we make a mistake that decreases our client’s sense of safety? Bringing together experience and knowledge in reproductive justice work, ethics, and mental health, Frances will guide clinicians in exploring these questions and more. 

Participants who complete this course will:

  • Increase understanding of the connections between physical and mental health within a systemic context

  • Explore the impact of loss of bodily autonomy on client mental health

  • Explore options for creating safety for clients in the face of diminished autonomy/politicized identity and choice

  • Recognize and navigate the impact of systems on client wellness, including family, culture, medical, and legal

  • Explore options for moving forward from mistake making and getting it wrong with an emphasis on humility and growth

About Northstar Learning Lab

Co-Founders of Northstar Counseling Center, Amanda Driggs, LMFT, LCSW, & Carol Ann Isbell, LMFT, LCSW, have always been passionate about their pursuit of lifelong learning.  As mental health professionals, they have served the Louisville community for over a decade through their private practice. 

Northstar Learning Lab was created in partnership with Dr. Eli Karam, LMFT, and Dr. Amanda Brown, LMFT, CSW in order to fill a gap in continuing education for Kentucky mental health professionals. 

Gone are the days of arduous hours of Continuing Education (CE), or searching for last minute trainings to meet state requirements! The goal of Northstar Learning Lab is to allow Licensed Mental Health professionals (including LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, Psychologists and others) obtain high-quality systemic focused CEs, on your time, On-Demand!  These CE courses are available when and where you are, so you can continue to focus on the valuable work of supporting your clients, with innovative and superior continuing education in your toolbox. 

In alignment with our mission, while providing systemic CEs for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) in Kentucky, we also ensure that we have valued CEs for social workers, professional counselors, psychologists and more. With a variety of CE topics including trauma-informed care, common factors therapy, telehealth, couples therapy, spirituality, suicide assessment and treatment, cultural competence, pediatric abusive head trauma, MFT Ethics CEs, Social Work Ethics CEs, domestic violence, BIPOC Youth, sex therapy, and MFT Exam Prep, we are dedicated to bringing you relevant and timely CE courses for your practice in Kentucky and beyond! We also carry the Category I CE Sponsorship for Indiana's Board of Behavioral Health and Human Services.

Our goal is to ensure mental health therapists in Kentucky and beyond have access to quality, affordable CE courses that expand your skills and knowledge so that you can competently and confidently serve our clients and communities well.