In keeping with our mission to provide reparative care with cultural humility, STEPS offers consultations to organizations invested in making cultural change. The needs of each organization deeply vary and STEPS strives to collaboratively explore ways in which sustainable change can take place. Organizational change begins with assessing the organization’s needs through engaging with leadership as well as listening to all members’ needs in order to effectively offer collaborative and sustainable solutions. We offer a range of options from ongoing training to specific, directed workshops. We also consult with other psychotherapy practices to integrate the sociopolitical and cultural spheres into psychotherapy work in an ethically collaborative way.
Areas of consultation include, but are not limited to:
- Providing trauma-informed care in healthcare settings and trauma-informed education in school settings
- Organizational level changes to promote justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Utilizing liberation psychology to understand the impact of intergenerational sociopolitical trauma.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Consulting and Training
At STEPS, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) consultations and trainings with organizations and psychology group practices focus on promoting a more inclusive and equitable environment for both employees and patients. These consultations and trainings aim to enhance awareness, knowledge, and skills related to liberatory practices and cultural humility within the workplace and clinical settings.
In EDI consultations, we work closely with organizations to assess current practices, policies, and culture to identify areas for improvement. Based on feedback from all pasts of the organization, we provide recommendations and strategies to help create a more inclusive and diverse environment, fostering a sense of belonging and respect for all individuals.
Our EDI trainings focus on workshops, seminars, and educational sessions designed to increase awareness of working with a sociopolitical lens, particularly keeping in mind transference and countertransference issues between therapists and patients. Grounded in psychoanalytic theory and research, these workshops recognize that the unconscious is largely unknown to us. Thus the aim is not to “resolve” or “solve” implicit bias but to work within it through psychodynamic methodologies of rupture and repair.
By prioritizing equity, diversity, and inclusion, these initiatives can lead to improved interoffice relationships as well as more fulfilling and effective patient/therapist relationships.