PODCAST: The MultiCultural MindSet
"The Multicultural Mindset" is a weekly podcast that helps counselors and other therapists dig into real-life issues affecting BIPOC mental health and wellness. A multicultural mindset is not a form of cultural competence. A multicultural mindset is a state of humility and openness to changing what you look for and what you see with clients who identify as BIPOC folx. It is not a list of things to know. It is a way of being that brings the overlooked and unspoken experiences of a racialized life from the background to the foreground of therapy. Instead of focusing on Black client deficits that aren't REALLY deficits at all, a multicultural mindset challenges the deficits and biases within the prevailing mental health system and provider ideologies. This is liberating for both the giver and the receiver of care. Join in to find your liberation from the one-size-fits-all counseling approaches you learned in grad school so you can hold space for others to truly heal. Let's all get free! It's time!
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January 3, 2025
Patterns That Remain
Dr. Stacey Diane Aranez Litam is one of the nation's leading researchers/writers on the impact of discrimination on the mental health of racially minoritized groups. In this information-packed conversation, Dr. Litam discusses the important concepts of diasporic wounds and healing from intergenerational patterns as she talks about her new book release, "Patterns That Remain."
December 20, 2024
Economic Marginalization and Advocacy for Black Americans
In this episode, Dr. Collins talks with Dexter B. Jenkins, Financial Literacy Advisor and a Real Estate Investor, about financial marginalization, strategies, and wealth for Black families. What are some cultural messages that have been passed down in Black culture? How does economic marginalization affect mental health in Black America? And what do counselors need to consider when working with community members who experience both racial and economic marginalization? These are the important questions addressed in this episode.
December 13, 2024
Holidays! The Blues, The Battles, and the Boundaries
The holiday season is traditionally a time of celebration, family gatherings, and social events, but holidays can also bring about the blues, family battles, and issues with boundaries. In this episode, Dr. Collins examines how Western individualistic and collectivist values can clash in BIPOC families, triggering unspoken fears and misunderstandings. Learn how colonialism makes boundary-setting different between BIPOC and non-BIPOC experiences and how providers can be attuned to the differences.
December 6, 2024
Disrupting Prevailing Ideologies: Culturally Inclusive Counseling
What a powerhouse conversation between these two dynamic counseling professionals. Listen in to Dr. Collins and Dr. S. Kent Butler as these trailblazers get into some "good trouble" by disrupting prevailing ideologies and explaining decolonization, intersectionality, and inclusivity in counseling.
November 22, 2024
Why Trauma-Informed Care is Essential to Diversity-Informed Practice
Black Americans have endured centuries of race-based, historical, and intergenerational trauma. If your mental health practice is going to be a diversity-informed practice, you must engage all members of your racially diverse practice community with a mind toward informed care.
November 15, 2024
The Hidden Sorrow of Racism
Black Americans experience unspoken losses due to racism and discrimination, but those losses are not acknowledged by society at large. This is a form of disenfranchised grief, and it is taking a toll right now. Dr. Collins examines this often-overlooked grief in this episode of The MultiCultural Mindset.
November 8, 2024
What is a MultiCultural Mindset?
Why is it important? How is it developed? In the first episode of this essential program, Dr. Collins discusses the basic principles of a MultiCultural MindSet and its importance for mental health professionals.