Well-being Across Significant Social Difference: Health Equity & Cultural Competency

Date: Friday December 19, 2025
Time: 9:00am–12:15pm Pacific Time
Location: Online
Available CEs: 3 CEs in Healthy Equity & Cultural Competency
Facilitator: Dr. Leticia Nieto, PsyD, LMFT, TEP
Cost:  $119.00

Registration Deadline: Tuesday December 16, 2025

A workshop for effective relating across differences from varied social locations including age, disability and health, religious culture, racialization, class, sexual orientation, indigenous background, national origin, and all aspects of gender. Utilizing a narrative appreciative lens, we will look at moments of vitality and challenge to identify core conditions for wellness.

This workshop will be experiential with time for reflective practitioner practices.

Learning objectives

1. Participants will be able to explain one intervention addressing social location of practitioner and client(s) leading to informed well-being and effective therapeutic alliance.
2. Participants will be able to demonstrate one agile social analysis tool to examine health equity in the dimensions of care.
3. Participants will be able to concretize one example of the appreciative narrative perspective in support of cultural competence.

Required Materials

• Your preference of materials to write with (paper, notebook, pens, pencils etc.)
• Optional: Book – Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone – by Nieto et.al

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute Cancellation & Refund Policy

Earning Continuing Education Credits

To receive a CE Certificate for completion of this workshop, you must officially register, attend the workshop/program in its entirety and complete an evaluation form after the workshop/program. The evaluation form is emailed from NWCEAI. After completing & submitting the evaluation form, a CE Certificate will be emailed to you within 5-7 business days.

Who is eligible to receive CEs?

• Nationally: Approved NBCC Provider for Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Licensed Social Workers (you are responsible for confirming that your organization/state will accept NBCC credits.)
• New York Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs)
• Washington State School Counselor/Teacher (OSPI) Approved by the Washington State Office of Public Instruction as a “Washington State approved clock hour offering workshop.”
• If you are outside of Washington State, we advise that you check with your state licensing board to confirm that they accept NBCC Approved CEs. 

Northwest Creative and Expressive Arts Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0123.

Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7104. Programs that do no qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Northwest Creative & Expressive Arts Institute (NWCEAI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.