2025 Professional Continuing Education Online Workshop
How to Heal a Sista: A Grassroots Approach to Helping Black Women
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, from 10:00 AM – 1:10 PM
Online Workshop – Three (3) CE Credits (This workshop meets the Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice content requirement)
Fee: $75/person
FREE for Active PBC Volunteer Clinicians
Featured Presenter: Shawna Murray-Browne, Ph.D., LCSW-C
Session Description: Black women face unique mental health challenges, shaped by institutionalized racism, stigma, and the roles they hold in families and communities, yet these factors are often overlooked in therapy. This workshop equips therapists to address the distinct stressors Black women endure, helping them better understand the physical and psychological impacts. Through culturally sensitive approaches like embodiment, authentic use of self, and grassroots strategies, therapists can foster self-determination and collective healing for African American women.
Workshop Level: Beginner
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- Describe the unique stressors Black women face along with effective ways to address the physical and psychological toll they can take.
- Explain 5 effective clinical strategies that celebrate Black culture and destigmatize mental health issues to improve clinical outcomes for African American women
- Explore the relevance and utility of grassroots approaches to inspire self-determination and collective healing among African American women.
Presenter Bio: Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C
Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C is an organizational strategist and healer, cultural historian, womanist scholar, transformational speaker and keeper of sacred space for leaders of color, globally. She is the Principal Consultant at Kindred Wellness LLC and trained as an integrative psychotherapist.
Dr. Shawna is known for holding sacred space for changemakers across the globe to return to themselves to equip Black families and change-makers with the tools to heal themselves. Others know her best for her training intensive, Decolonizing Therapy for Black Folk, where she co-creates space for deconstructing and reimagining mental health care as we know it.
Dr. Shawna works at the intersection of grassroot movement, institutional change and embodied ancestral wisdom. Intuitive, authentic, and high energy, she pulls from over 14 years of experience in mind-body medicine and mental health care to accompany executives in transcending historic and modern-day trauma. She guides organizations in creating affirming practices, policies and environments for Black, Brown and Indigenous people everywhere.
Dr. Shawna was named by The Huffington Post as one of the “Ten Black Female Therapists You Should Know,” featured on the PBS special Mysteries of Mental Illness, and was a two-time guest on the popular, Therapy for Black Girls podcast.
She completed her doctorate at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work where she gained her Master of Social Work. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminology and Family Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. She previously served on the Advisory Board of Cllctivly, as well as the Trauma Informed Care Task Force for the City of Baltimore, and is a former Minority Fellow for the Council on Social Work Education and SAMSHA.
Dedicated to continued growth, her practice in QiGong, African spiritual traditions, and sitting at the feet of elders maintain. She lives in Baltimore with her husband and her seven-year-old daughter.
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Website: www.shawnamurraybrowne.com
Instagram: @withDrShawna
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnamurraybrowne/
SPECIAL NOTE – All workshop participants will receive a discount registration code for Dr. Shawna’s training intensive, Decolonizing Therapy for Black Folk, a virtual self-guided module series to earn 13 CE credits upon completion.
Workshop registrants will receive a code prior to the webinar to log on to Zoom and participate in the online session.
IMPORTANT: Attendance will be monitored. Participants must be logged on to the meeting by the workshop start time and participate in the entire event in order to earn CE credit.
Pro Bono Counseling is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Pro Bono Counseling maintains responsibility for this program and its content. The Maryland Boards of Social Work Examiners and Professional Counselors and Therapists certify that this program meets the criteria for three (3) credit hours of continuing education for social workers (Category 1 ), professional counselors, and therapists (Category A) licensed in Maryland.
CE credit is granted to participants with documented attendance at individual workshops. Attendance is monitored. Credit will not be granted to registrants who log on late or depart early from a session. It is the responsibility of registrants to comply with these requirements.
Please note that upon attendance verification, you will receive your CE certificate within four weeks via email. Please add Pro Bono Counseling to your contacts and check your SPAM folder to ensure delivery.
By registering for this event, all participants agree to abide by the following code of conduct:
Workshop Code of Conduct
Pro Bono Counseling (PBC) is dedicated to providing a positive continuing education experience for everyone of all backgrounds and identities. We do not tolerate disrespectful behavior or harassment of workshop participants, facilitators, or PBC staff in any form. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the basis of characteristics that include but are not limited to: gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, citizenship, veteran status, pregnancy status, race, ethnicity, or religion. Anyone asked to stop unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately. If a participant engages in unacceptable behavior, PBC may take any action it deems appropriate, including warning or expelling the offender from the event with no refund.
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