Cultural Humility: A Lifelong Practice for Mental Health Professionals(2HR) Presented by Aimee Bellmore, Ph.D., LCMHCS, LPC - CE Training Workshops Cultural Humility: Practice for Mental Health Professionals

Cultural Humility: A Lifelong Practice for Mental Health Professionals (2HR)

$32.00

Course Description

Cultural humility is an essential framework for mental health professionals, emphasizing the importance of self-reflection, openness, and respect for diverse cultural backgrounds. Unlike cultural competence, which suggests a finite mastery of specific cultural knowledge, cultural humility is a lifelong commitment to learning, growth, and understanding. This approach is vital for effective mental health care, as it fosters meaningful relationships between practitioners and clients.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

Define and differentiate the differences between cultural humility and cultural competence.
Identify your own cultural identity and biases and the impact of biases on client interactions.
Develop an action plan to apply culturally humble practices in therapeutic settings.

Social workers completing this course receive 2 Clinical asynchronous continuing education credits.

For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 2 Clinical continuing education training.

Course Instructor: Aimee Bellmore, Ph.D., LCMHCS, LPC

Recording Date: 07/03/2025

Course Format

NBCC ACEP # 7091, CE Training Workshops has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #7091. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. CE Training Workshops is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CE Training Workshops designates this continuing education activity for 3 continuing education hours.

CE Training Workshops, LLC, #1770, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/02/2025 to 08/02/2028. Social workers completing this course receive 3 Clinical continuing education credits.

Meet Your Facilitator

Aimée Ryan Bellmore, PhD, LCMHCS, LPC, is a mental health researcher, scholar, and practitioner with a specialty in working with survivors of trauma. She has been a licensed mental health provider for over twenty years and worked in a variety of different settings, including residential treatment and corrections.

Currently, she has a private practice that serves immigrant communities where she provides psycho-social evaluations for individuals seeking asylum, victims of crime, and survivors of human trafficking. In addition to her private practice, she works full-time as a dean of students and supervises mental health, wellness, and crisis management services for 15,000 undergraduate and graduate students.

Aimée earned a master’s degree in transpersonal counseling psychology from Naropa University and a PhD in social work and social research from Portland State University. Her career spans over two decades and includes academic teaching and scholarship, program evaluation, trauma intervention research and publications, social advocacy, and leading organizations to build conscious awareness and positively affect individual and community change.

Syllabus

Introduction

Cultural humility is a foundational framework for effective and ethical mental health practice. Unlike cultural competence, which implies the completion of a skill set or knowledge base, cultural humility is a lifelong commitment to self-reflection, self-critique, and continuous learning.

Objective 1: Define Key Concepts in Cultural Humility

Participants will define and differentiate the concepts of cultural humility and cultural competence, exploring their relevance to contemporary mental health practice. Emphasis will be placed on recognizing the limitations of one’s own cultural lens, maintaining a lifelong commitment to self-evaluation, and understanding how humility enhances therapeutic effectiveness and ethical integrity.

Objective 2: Identify Personal Cultural Identity and Biases

This section guides participants through the process of identifying their own cultural identities, values, and biases that may influence client interactions. Through reflective exercises and case studies, learners will examine how assumptions or blind spots related to race, gender, class, or sexual orientation can unconsciously shape clinical decisions and therapeutic rapport.

Objective 3: Apply Culturally Humble Practices in Therapy

Participants will develop practical strategies for implementing cultural humility within their daily work. This includes designing a personal action plan and checklist of culturally humble practices, engaging in ongoing education, and cultivating spaces that honor clients’ cultural narratives and strengths. The focus will remain on integrating humility into both individual and systemic levels of practice.

Objective 4: Reflect and Integrate

The course concludes with a summary and open Q&A. Participants will reflect on their personal growth throughout the session, identify next steps for continued learning, and commit to maintaining cultural humility as a guiding principle in their professional journey.