"LaVerne Hanes Collins PhD:  
Trailblazing a New Era in 
Culturally Sensitive Mental Health"  

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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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EPISODE 001:  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.

EPISODE 002: 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.


EPISODE 003: 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.