Strategies for Trusting Yourself in Invalidating Systems

Strategies for Trusting Yourself in Invalidating Systems: Applying Healing-Centered CBT to Restore Joy and Self-Advocacy

NBCC CE Hours: 2 (ACEP Number: 7197)

Join Drs. Charmeka Newton and Janeé Steele, for “Strategies for Trusting Yourself in Invalidating Systems: Applying Healing-Centered CBT to Restore Joy and Self-Advocacy,” a powerful and interactive session designed especially for individuals from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds.

This session will offer a safe and empowering space to:

• Briefly review of core strategies for recognizing and resisting invalidation in personal, professional, and systemic contexts
• Engage in experiential exercises that help participants apply those strategies in real time
• Additionally learn how to integrate healing-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to deepen self-trust and navigate invalidating systems more effectively

Whether you’re facing workplace bias, navigating healthcare or educational inequities, or advocating for yourself in challenging environments, this webinar provides practical tools for healing, self-advocacy, and culturally responsive engagement. Skills can be used for yourself or to help those who you serve.

About the presenters:

Dr. Charmeka Newton is the co-author of the book Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal from Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity. She is also a clinical assistant professor, fully licensed psychologist, and owner of Legacy Mental Health Services, PLLC. Her areas of expertise include multicultural counseling and clinical supervision of master’s-level counseling practitioners and students. In addition to her clinical and teaching expertise, Dr. Newton is a member of the Michigan Board of Psychology, appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and was honored with the Distinguished Psychologist award by the Michigan Psychological Association. Her video "The Hate They Give, The Love We Have," is included in the American Psychological Association’s Culturally Informed Trauma Recovery Toolkit. Dr. Newton additionally is an Appointed APA Advocacy Coordinating Committee member, and an Elected Member-at-Large Community Engagement Representative for Division 45 of APA.

Dr. Janeé Steele is the co-author of Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal from Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity and author of the forthcoming book Racism and African American Mental Health: Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Empower Healing with foreword by Judith Beck. Dr. Steele is also a licensed professional counselor, counselor educator, and diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies, where she serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. She owns Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC, where she provides therapy, supervision, and training in CBT. She has published articles, books, and book chapters focused on CBT, social justice advocacy, and counselor training. Her webinar discussing her cognitive model of internalized racism is one of the American Counseling Association's bestselling products and was featured by the organization as part of its 2022 BIPOC Awareness Month programming.

Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7197. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.