Healing is Resistance: DBT Informed Clinical Skills for Race-Based Traumatic Stress
Thursday, November 5, 2026 · 1–4pm Pacific
- In person · Long Beach, CA
- $140
- 3 CE hours · LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, LEP
ABOUT THE TRAINING
Why This, Why Now?
This training was created in response to what so many of us in clinical practice are witnessing: racial trauma.
Discrimination, prejudice, microaggressions, deportations, family separations, war and displacement are rampant among BIPOC and immigrant communities. This 3-hour professional training explores race-based traumatic stress (RBTS), its symptoms, and the interventions used to treat it and lead clients toward personal liberation.
In this training:
Participants will examine how Dialectical Behavior Therapy's skills have been meaningfully adapted for clients navigating racism and systemic oppression.
We will also explore what it means to decolonize our evidence-based practices. Racism itself functions as an extreme invalidating environment for BIPOC clients, and our clinical frameworks must reflect that reality.
Alongside these DBT skills, participants will learn and brainstorm ways to bring holistic exercises into their clinical practice.
What you'll learn:
You'll be to Name It, See It, and Respond to It
Educational Goals
- Increase knowledge of race-based traumatic stress
- Increase knowledge of the impact of racism on the physical, mental and spiritual health of BIPOC bodies
- Increase knowledge of specific practices tailored for race-based traumatic stress
Learning Objectives
- Participants will be able to describe two symptoms of race-based traumatic stress
- Participants will be able to identify three different ways racism impacts the physical, mental and spiritual health of victims
- Participants will be able to apply the 3 DBT-Informed Interventions specifically adapted for BIPOC impacted by racism
Training Details:
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2026
Time: 1pm - 4pm PST (3 hours)
In-Person Location: Long Beach, Ca
Cost: $140
Audience: For mental health professionals looking to provide culturally sensitive interventions for racial stress and trauma.
CEUs: Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Attendance tracked via sign-in/sign out. Evaluation required for CE credit. Certificates issued after completion of training. Pending approval by Latinx Therapy*.
Accommodations for special needs can be requested at sofia@sofiamendozalcsw.com.
Grievances can be sent via email to sofia@sofiamendozalcsw.com
Refunds Policy: No Refunds. If you are not able to make it, please email and you will be provided credit or offered attendance into a similarly priced training.
*Latinx Therapy (#1000056) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs and LPCCs. Latinx Therapy maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
What you get:
- 3 hours of in-person training
- Slides
- Reproducible Worksheets from the book, "Stand Up, Speak Up and Heal"
- Guided SoundBowl Meditation specifically for healers during political stress
Register Today - Limited Spots
10 spots are available at this intimate, in-person setting.
About the Facilitator:
E. Sofia Mendoza LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 17 years of experience in community mental health. Trained in TF-CBT, CBT, EMDR (approved consultant), and DBT through LA County DMH. Specializes in separation-related trauma (immigration, foster care, incarceration, adoption), multicultural grief, and anti-racist, decolonizing clinical practice. Experienced trainer in intersectional DBT and immigration-related grief, with advanced training in EMDR for grief, anti-racism leadership, and child bereavement. Co-author of "Stand Up, Speak Up and Heal: Overcome Race-Based Traumatic Stress, Self-Advocate, and Stay Grounded" a self-help book helping clients and therapists understand the impact of racism, learn skills to stay grounded and empowered to make liberated choices.