Trainings/Workshops
We hold our team & extensive network accountable for the care they provide to Queer & Trans, Black, Indigenous, & other People of Color communities. Through our paid trainings, we support all mental health professionals to gain specific knowledge & understandings of the various identities our clients may hold to better serve them in their healing journeys. These trainings have spanned sexuality & gender, immigration, burnout, religious trauma, & many other experiences.
Our workshops, free & donation-based, also support mental health professionals & clients alike in gaining psycho-education, supportive coping skills, & a chance to ask our team questions about specific experiences they may otherwise feel unable to ask.
If you have suggestions or requests for future trainings & workshops, please contact us!
Trainings
Shame & Healing w. QTBIPOC Muslim Clients
Mental health providers know loads about the forces of shame against our self-worth and self-perception. We know various systems of power, including religious institutions, use shame to oppress communities by inciting fear and blame to uphold these oppressive systems.
But what if we could decolonize what we know of faith and spirituality to foster trauma healing and emotional regulation among our communities? Join Verdah Kazi, MHC-LP, in this one hour training to learn how to help your Queer Muslim clients combat shame using a Feminist psychological perspective.
Anti-oppressive Rate Structure
LIVE training has passed. If you’d like to purchase the recording of the training, please email Verdah Kazi, MHC-LP.
Workshops
build-a-boundary workshop
Join me, Oumou Sylla licensed Marriage and Family Therapist on December 19th 2pm-5pm EST for a workshop on building boundaries with family members.
For many people, their relationships with boundaries are *complicated*.
In this workshop, we will go over different definitions, follow fears with curiosity, practice verbalizing boundaries, process what happens (and what to do) when family members violate a boundary and more. participants will leave this workshop with a deeper understanding of boundaries and a framework/tools for setting them. participants will also have an understanding of the impact their family of origin may play in how they understand and experience boundaries.
Full price is $63. a reduced $33 rate is available. folks will not be denied b/c of a lack of funds. i’m serious, hit my line if you need to and we’ll talk.
Link to the workshop and my shop: https://ko-fi.com/connectwithoumou
Processing Grief
Experiencing a loss is difficult already - but to experience it during a pandemic? Even worse. At this workshop, Verdah Kazi, MHC-LP & Khumo Masege, MHC-LP facilitate a space where we keep it real with how loss impacts us, the importance of grieving, & supportive ways of coping on your own & in community (yup, community in a pandemic) to develop a healing relationship with loss.
This is a psycho-educational, virtual workshop discussing the process of grieving & healing from various losses, including that related to the pandemic. This is NOT considered group/individual therapy, NOR will you be receiving mental health therapy from either facilitator during the workshop.
All workshop participants are aware this is not considered a mental health therapy session & is ONLY a workshop to provide psycho-education & coping skills/tools to process grief/loss responses related, but not limited, to the COVID-19 pandemic & mandatory lockdown.
Workshop is currently paused. If you are interesting in having us present this workshop to support your employees, educate your team of mental health professionals, or for the general community, please email Verdah Kazi, MHC-LP
Mind-Body Approach Managing Anxiety in a Pandemic
Anxiety is inevitable for us all to experience, especially during a pandemic. While anxiety can be supportive, it can be overwhelming & traumatic if we experience it for too long at a time or we are unable to process it. Join Verdah Kazi, Advanced Clinical Intern, & Khumo Masege, MHC-LP, to learn the signs of anxiety that lead to disconnection of the mind & body, mindfulness coping skills to foster reconnection, & tools to have a healthier relationship with your anxiety & anxious thoughts.
This is a psycho-educational, virtual workshop discussing the different ways our bodies may react to a pandemic and share tips and healthy coping skills on how to self-soothe. This is NOT considered group/individual therapy, NOR will you be receiving mental health therapy from either facilitator during the workshop.
All workshop participants are aware this is not considered a mental health therapy session and is ONLY a workshop to provide psycho-education and coping skills/tools to manage anxiety responses related to the COVID-19 pandemic and mandatory lockdown.
Workshop is currently paused. If you are interesting in having us present this workshop to support your employees, educate your team of mental health professionals, or for the general community, please email Verdah Kazi, MHC-LP