Description
For therapists, social workers, counselors, and other health care professionals in Colorado
The Training will help you:
-Increase your ability to engage and to develop a trusting rapport with BIPOC clients
-Increase your assessment, diagnostic and intervention skills to support BIPOC clients
-Explore language, emotions, and experiences that translate to core issues for BIPOC clients
Yes, this training will be recorded. But you’ll get best results if you attend this LIVE and INTERACTIVE training including:
-Opportunity to learn and/or practice a variety of approaches to engage and treat the needs of BIPOC clients in an interactive group
-Have a safe space to ask questions about race, ethnicity, and culture without judgment
-Opportunity to create a dialogue about your own experiences and how it informs our work with BIPOC clients.
-Get a Certificate of Completion for use towards your CEUs
The How to Engage with BIPOC Clients Training is presented by:
Nikissia Craig, LCSWNikissia Craig is the Founder and CEO of Whole Journey Services, a counseling and wellness practice based throughout Virginia and North Carolina. Whole Journey is an integrative practice that reduces the stigma of mental health in its “whole body” approaches to wellness.
Nikissia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She is also a Certified Life Coach, and Certified Adoption Therapist with C.A.S.E. She has held formal certifications in trauma and compassion fatigue. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Journalism and a master’s degree in Social Work from Norfolk State University. She enjoys using her specialties to work with survivors of past painful experiences, other helping professionals and leaders, and families hoping to increase their connections with each other.
Representation and collaboration are important to Craig. She also provides consulting and educational services to other agencies focused on promoting mental and emotional wellness.
Her professional goals of supporting individuals on their journeys, strengthening families and contributing to the community, has motivated her to serve various programs in the areas of mental health, foster care/adoption, case management, community outreach and education, substance abuse, homelessness, and domestic violence throughout the years.
Prior to entrepreneurship, she worked with multiple non-profit agencies that served women, children, and youth in foster care. She is proud to have piloted an adoption program, Extreme Recruitment, throughout Eastern Virginia, while working at UMFS, which located more than 1,000 relatives for youth in foster care. This program is now available in Northern, Western and Central Virginia.
Nikissia sticks close to her non-profit roots and continues the spirit of giving back. Nikissia led her Whole Journey team into a partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Virginia where they provide free support, mentorship and counseling to the youth and staff. The Whole Journey team also provides free counseling to families affected by the Virginia Beach shooting in 2019, and remains focused on providing counseling to essential workers and their families through the COVID-19 pandemic.
