On Demand Course
This comprehensive course equips therapists with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to effectively address racial trauma, fostering healing, empowerment, and systemic change. Drawing on cutting-edge research, evidence-based strategies, and culturally responsive practices, this course takes participants on a transformative journey through understanding, assessing, and treating the complex impacts of racial trauma.
Skills for Effective Care
Participants will develop skills to identify and assess the stratified impacts of racial stressors—including systemic racism, microaggressions, and internalized biases—using validated measures like the UnRESTS interview. Through psychoeducation and therapeutic strategies, therapists will learn to help clients stabilize emotions, process racial trauma, and build resilience. Emphasis is placed on fostering posttraumatic growth, empowering clients to reclaim their voices, and equipping them to navigate and challenge racism in their daily lives.
This course also prepares therapists to embody civil courage, becoming effective racial justice allies and advocates within their practices and communities. With a focus on self-compassion, assertive communication, and meaningful advocacy, therapists will gain practical tools to support clients while cultivating their own growth and resilience. By the end of the course, participants will have the expertise to create individualized racial wellness plans, integrate activism into healing, and help clients transition from trauma to empowerment.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to identify, assess, and document racial trauma using tools like the UnRESTS Interview and Racial Trauma Scale
- Strategies to stabilize clients, reduce shame, and build resilience
- Interventions that support healing, empowerment, and posttraumatic growth
- How to integrate activism, assertive communication, and civil courage into the therapeutic process
- Techniques for your own self-growth, reflection, and racial justice allyship
Why Choose This Program
- Clinically Grounded, Justice-Oriented
- Integrates the latest clinical research with a deep commitment to racial equity and systemic change.
- Real Tools for Real Clients
- Walk away with practical interventions, assessment methods, and language you can use immediately in sessions.
- A Trauma Protocol Specifically for Racial Harm
- Learn a step-by-step framework tailored to the unique impacts of racial trauma—something most programs don’t offer.
- Developed by a Leading Expert
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand and Assess Racial Trauma: Identify the cumulative impact of racial stress and trauma using tools like the UnRESTS semi-structured interview, validated questionnaires, and client narratives.
- Stabilize Clients and Build Resilience: Help clients make sense of their racial trauma, reduce internalized shame, and develop coping skills and supportive networks.
- Facilitate Healing and Posttraumatic Growth: Guide clients through processing unresolved trauma, reframing harmful narratives, and learning new skills for empowerment.
- Promote Advocacy and Activism: Equip clients with assertive communication and boundary-setting skills to safely confront racism while identifying meaningful ways to engage in transforming their environments.
- Foster Therapist Growth: Develop the therapist’s capacity for growth, courage, cultural competence, and advocacy to better support clients and challenge systemic racism in professional and personal contexts.
Who This Is For?
- Mental health professionals seeking specialized training in racial trauma
- Therapists committed to anti-racist clinical practice
- Clinicians who want to serve communities of color with greater competence and care
- Coaches, educators, and helping professionals working at the intersection of healing and racial justice
- Supervisors and organizational leaders building culturally responsive teams
Course Format
- On-demand training modules led by Dr. Monnica Williams
- Real client case examples + downloadable assessment tools
Get Certified in Treating Racial Trauma
The Healing Racial Trauma Protocol offers a clear, research-based path forward for clinicians who are committed to racial equity, emotional justice, and ethical care. Become part of a growing movement to redefine what culturally attuned mental health care can look like. Whether you're just beginning to explore racial trauma or are looking to deepen your clinical practice, this approach offers both the structure and support to help you do this work with integrity, impact, and lasting change.
