Cultural Humility, Cultural Opportunities, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Member)

Title of Workshop:
Transgender Psychoanalysts Speak: Reflections from Training, Patient Care and Professional Practice

Format: In-person
Credit: 3 CEUs approved for Social Workers, LPCs/LMFTs and LADCs

Cost:
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*(Full-Time Undergraduate, Graduate, Doctoral students, and LMFT, LADC, LPC, Social Work, Psychology, and Psychoanalytic licensure/certification candidates

Speaker: Bindu Methikalam, Ph.D.

Description:

Traditional psychodynamic frameworks have historically been critiqued for relying on Eurocentric, universalist assumptions that pathologize or erase cultural differences. Modern relational and psychodynamic practices require a paradigm shift from rigid models of "cultural competence" toward a dynamic multicultural orientation (MCO). This interactive workshop discusses how psychodynamic clinicians can integrate pillars of cultural humility and cultural opportunities as essential mechanisms for deepening clinical outcomes and the working alliance. We will explore how these opportunities intersect with classic psychodynamic phenomena, transforming transference, countertransference, and relational interpretations into psychotherapy that is relevant for working with historically marginalized client populations. Through case vignettes, self-reflective exercises, and didactic, clinicians will leave with practical tools to identify intersecting identities, power and privilege, cross cultural-ruptures, and ways to improve treatment outcomes among historically marginalized client populations.

Learning Objectives:

Objective #1: Identify ways power and privilege impact therapeutic space.
Objective #2: Understand cultural enactments.
Objective #3: Identify aspects of Multicultural Orientation and Opportunities.

Speaker’s bio:

Dr. Bindu Methikalam is an Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Training at Chestnut Hill College in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Pace University in New York City, and her master’s in Counseling Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and her doctorate in Counseling Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University in 2008. She completed her Internship at the Counseling and Psychological Services Center at the Pennsylvania State University and post-doctoral residency in college student mental health at Princeton University’s Counseling and Psychological Services. Her clinical and research interests include working with perfectionism, family expectations, multicultural issues and South Asian concerns, particularly, immigrant experiences, acculturation, cultural identities, and the psychology of women. She is a 2017-2018 APA Div. 39 Scholar through the Multicultural Concerns Committee and a 2020 Apsaa Teacher's Academy Fellow.