Live Webinar: Promoting Positive Racial Identity with Counseling Clients
Event Details
Live Webinar: Promoting Positive Racial Identity with Counseling Clients
3 General/Strength-Based CEs
(3 Hours NBCC CEs)
Friday December 5th, 2025 from 2:00 PM to 5:15 PM on Zoom
During this webinar, Dr. Char Newton will share strategies clinicians can use to help clients of diverse racial identity challenge and rewrite oppressive messages that undermine their cultural worth, while also promoting practices that contribute to joy, healing, and liberation. Grounded in the lived experiences of communities of color and supported by evidence-based practice, the presentation will emphasize interventions designed to foster positive racial identity, self-esteem, resilience, empowerment, and community. Participants will also receive practical resources they can immediately implement in their clinical work.
Objectives Include:
-Understand what is racial identity
-Support healing from the negative psychological effects of racial trauma
-Affirm clients’ personal and cultural strengths
-Help clients develop the resilience needed to cope with adversitie
-Cultivate increased critical consciousness and commitment to social action
-Strengthen community engagement
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This course meets criteria for 3 hours of general continuing education by the Oklahoma Board of Behavioral Health for Oklahoma LPC and LMFT license holders, by the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Social Workers (provider #20250088) for Oklahoma LCSW license holders, by the Oklahoma Board of Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselors (certificate #20260018) for LADC and CADC license holders (3 hours non-specific CEs), and for Oklahoma case managers (3 hours strength-based CEs). 3 Hours NBCC CEs.
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No Prerequisites Required for This Course.
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Dr. Charmeka Newton
Dr. Charmeka Newton is a fully licensed psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor. She has over 20 years of experience in clinical, academic, and community settings, including teaching experience at both undergraduate and graduate levels of higher education. Her areas of expertise include implementation of culturally responsive treatment approaches, broaching, mitigating implicit bias in the counseling process, self-trust development, and clinical supervision of master ’s-level counseling practitioners and students. In addition to her clinical and teaching expertise, Dr. Newton is also a member of the Michigan Board of Psychology, appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer. She is also co-author of the book, Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal from Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity, published through Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC., as well as first author of peer-reviewed articles on the the Broaching Readiness Framework (2025) and the the Cross Racial Training Approach (2024).