Upcoming Training

Meeting the Moment: Professional Use of Self in Our Current Political Climate

Join me April 12th for this training where you will learn how to “Meet the Moment” of our current political climate.

Questions answered include:

  • How should I handle when a client says something offensive in therapy?

  • What if my client has a different political affiliation from me and wants to know what mine is?

  • How does race affect my role in serving clients who are marginalized or vulnerable?

  • And more

Bring your questions, your curiosity, and your openness to this conversation.

  • Training/Facilitating

    Ebony can create course work and facilitate trainings for your agency or institution. She has developed several courses (selected options shown in the carousel below) which have been sought out by agencies nationally. These courses aim to increase participants’ awareness of themselves and their position in the world. Participants also learn about the historical context for systematic oppression and leave with tools that empower them for change.

  • Speaking

    Ebony is a skilled public speaker who specializes in topics related to race, gender, adoption, trauma, social media and the intersectionalities of each. She believes this work should be enlightening, inspiring, and empowering. The goal is to leave attendees with new information about the world, themselves, and a call to action for their lives.

  • Consulting

    Ebony will be starting work supporting other mental health therapists with billing support. Are you feeling overwhelmed with enrollments? Confused about how the claims submission process should flow? She will be supporting a limited amount of therapists so they feel comfortable and confident with the billing aspect of the work.

Other Courses Offered

  • Bias

    This course discusses implicit and explicit bias. Participants learn to identify biases they hold. They also learn to reduce or eradicate those biases through evidence-based tools.

  • The Talk: How to Speak with Kids about Race and Adoption

    This course educates transracial adoptive parents and professionals about ways to engage children about the sometimes difficult topics of race and adoption. What are ways to speak with children at different stages of development? What are good things to say and which things should we avoid saying? These questions and more are answered.

  • Cultural Competency in Medical Health

    This course helps medical providers to increase their capacity to serve people from marginalized groups. The course has a specific aim to educate providers in order to address the Black maternal/infant mortality rate. However, it also discusses classism, sexism, fatphobia, and homoantagonism, Participants will leave this training with strategies to develop a more sympathetic bedside manner.

  • Professional Use of Self with Clients of Diverse Backgrounds

    This course is for mental health professionals and institutions/agencies who train/educate them. It is designed to give clinicians information about best practices for treating clients who are of a different ethnic background. How does race shape the therapeutic relationship? How should I handle if a client accuses me of being racist? How should I handle a client being bigoted towards me? What are the historical precedents set for race in counseling? Participants will receive these answers and more.

  • Trauma-Informed Parenting Techniques

    This course gives parents tool to manage the challenging behaviors of children who come from hard places. The course was developed for parents adopting children from the foster care system but it can be utilized by any parent or professional who works with children. If you are struggling with a child who is having a hard time listening, connecting, or responding to you, consider this training.

  • The Power of Words

    As a globe we are all experiencing hardship and strife. It can be easy to feel powerless. This course shows participants the power they have to motivate change in the world by the words they use and how they engage those around them. Why are pronouns so important? What do some of the new terms I am hearing mean? Should I challenge my loved ones on the hurtful things they say about people different than them? Does it matter? Participants will get answers to these questions and will leave the training with a better understanding of the strength they have to promote good in the world.

Proud to have worked with these agencies to share my knowledge

  • C2Adopt

  • enCircle

  • Gladney University

  • Henrico County Department of Social Services

  • HopeTree Family Services

  • Lighthouse Behavioral Health Center

  • National Council for Adoption

  • PBSKids/WGHB

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Virginia Department of Social Services

  • Virginia Licensed Child Placing Agencies Association