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Digital Seminar

The Culturally Responsive Supervision Mindset

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When cultural responsiveness is missing in supervision, clients pay the price.

In this session, Dr. Sonja Sutherland – professor, diversity consultant, and nationally recognized trainer on racial trauma and cultural competence – introduces a practical model to help supervisors foster humility, dialogue, and growth. You’ll learn how to:

  • Broach diversity with confidence by guiding supervisees to process discrimination-based stress and trauma
  • Strengthen the supervisory relationship by clarifying worldview and addressing cultural dynamics head-on
  • Promote lifelong cultural growth using a developmental model that turns awareness into ongoing practice

Dr. Sutherland’s work has shaped the way thousands of clinicians nationwide approach cultural competence in supervision – now she’ll show you how to do the same.

Here's What You'll Learn


Broaching Diversity with Supervisees

  • Addressing discrimination-based stress and trauma directly in supervision
  • Creating space for open discussion, validation, and growth

The Supervisory Relationship

  • Clarifying supervisees’ worldview
  • Exploring the impact of worldview on clinical development
  • Strengthening the supervisory alliance

Theoretical Model of Cross-Cultural Civility & Culturally Responsive Mindset Development

  • Overview of the Civility-Centered Developmental Model
    • A stages-of-change framework for cross-cultural responsiveness
  • Integration of key frameworks:
    • Transtheoretical Stages of Change
    • Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies
    • Racial Identity Development Models
    • Multicultural Orientation Framework
  • Practical applications for supervisors:
    • Identifying developmental barriers in supervisees
    • Supporting awareness, openness, and insight
    • Fostering a cross-culturally responsive practice mindset
    • Risks, limitations and scope of practice

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • Up to 1.25 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts


Sonja Sutherland, PhD, LPC

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Sonja Sutherland, PhD, LPC, trains clinicians and supervisors in the development of cross-cultural responsivity. Renowned in the field, she has provided individual, group, and family therapeutic services in many different settings for adolescents and adults for 20 years. Within the last 6 years, Dr. Sutherland has provided training, researched, and published in the areas of racial trauma, cultural competence development, the provision of culturally responsive clinical intervention and supervision, and social justice advocacy. Dr. Sutherland’s primary clinical practice centers on providing clinical supervision services to post-masters clinicians pursuing licensure.

Dr. Sutherland has served as a guest lecturer, trainer, and presenter for various organizations including Kaiser, ESPYR, Telehealth Certification Institute, the Georgia Psychological Association and many others. Dr. Sutherland is a core faculty member at Walden University as well as the founder and CEO of Legacy Changers Worldwide, an organization dedicated to providing family education and mental and emotional wellness resources. In addition, Dr. Sutherland provides continuing education workshops and supervision for various organizations, as well as being the Chief Diversity Consultant to the President for Richmont Graduate University. She is also a member of the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association for Multicultural Counseling & Development (AMCD), the Association of Counselor Educators and Supervisors (ACES), and the Licensed Professional Counselor Association of Georgia (LPCA-GA).


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Sonja Sutherland is the founder and CEO of Legacy Changers Training Institute for Mental Health Equity & Justice, LLC., Diversity Dialogues, and Legacy changers Worldwide, LLC. She has an employment relationship with Adams State University. Dr. Sutherland receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Sonja Sutherland is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Counseling Association of Georgia, the Association for Counselor Educators and Supervisors, and the Association for Multicultural Development.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150560
Duration:
1 hour, 16 minutes
Copyright:
Jan 23, 2026
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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