Previous Community Events and Workshops
Reclaiming Counternarratives: Telesupervisors’ Role in Supporting Diverse Trainees
DATE: Friday, June 5th, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm-2:00pm EST
LOCATION: Virtual
Join me in partnership with The Q’Lective for an interactive workshop on providing clinical supervision that attends to the unique needs of diverse and marginalized trainees.
At the end of the workshop, participants will:
(1) Define master narrative and counternarrative, and explain their relevance to telesupervision of psychology trainees.
(2) Identify strategies for developing a strong supervisory relationship in the telesupervision setting.
(3) Address the impact of master narratives on trainees’ clinical identity, performance, and well-being during telesupervision.
(4) Identify ways to collaborate with trainees to develop personal counternarratives grounded in their strengths and resistance during telesupervision.
CE, non-CE, and student registrations available! Attendees will be eligible to earn 2.0 Continuing Education Credits if they hold a New York State License as an LMHC, LCSW, LMSW, LCAT, LMFT, LPsyAn (LP), or Psychologist.
Queer Tatreez Circle
DATE: Thursday, March 26th, 2026
TIME: 7:00pm-9:00pm EST
LOCATION: Northwest DC (location shared upon registration)
Join Beyond the Binary Psychotherapy and Consulting, PLLC to meet your neighbors, and learn to stitch Palestinian tatreez, a rich cultural tradition and integral aspect of Palestinian heritage and identity. With each stitch, we refuse Palestinian erasure.
100% of ticket sales minus processing fees will support queer and trans Palestinian mutual aid via the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD).
Supporting Queer Arab/SWANA Americans in Psychotherapy
DATE: Monday, March 9th, 2026
TIME: 5:00pm-8:00pm EST
LOCATION: Virtual
HOSTED BY: The Q’Lective
“Queer second-generation Arab/SWANA Americans are a rich, vibrant, and diverse community, yet, are marginalized within multiple contexts. Anti-Arab, anti-immigrant, and cisheteronormative structural norms and policies in the United States intersect with intense cultural and religious beliefs about the incompatibility of sexual and gender diversity and Arab/SWANA identity” (Alsamadi, 2025, p.1). Consequently, queer Arab/SWANA Americans may seek psychotherapy for support in managing stress related to intersectional oppression and disenfranchisement (Alsamadi, 2025; Chaney et al., 2020; Habhab, 2018; Ikizler & Szymanski, 2014; Khatib et al., 2023).
The unique needs of this population are rendered invisible in psychology training programs and continuing education programming. As such, this workshop will teach attendees (1) relevant cultural values within Arab/SWANA communities; (2) common themes in psychotherapy with queer second-generation Arab/SWANA Americans; and (3) how the Keeping Radical Healing in Mind (KRHM; Adames et al., 2023) therapeutic approach is relevant to queer second-generation Arab/SWANA Americans. The workshop will conclude with a collaborative case example where attendees will apply the KRHM therapeutic approach to a composite clinical case of a queer second-generation Arab/SWANA American client.
*Attendees will also be eligible to earn 3.0 Continuing Education Credits if they hold a New York State License as an LMHC, LCSW, LMSW, LCAT, LMFT, LPsyAn (LP), or Psychologist.
Joy, Resistance, & Reclamation: A Free Creative Community Space
DATE: Monday, January 26th, 2026
TIME: 7:00pm-8:30pm EST
LOCATION: Virtual
A collective creative space to explore the depth and complexity of marginalized students and professionals entrenched in the system of mental health training and practice.
Creative expression is essential to processing, meaning making, resistance, resilience, and healing. This space is the second installment of a virtual community event for mental health trainees and professionals across disciplines and generations to reflect on their experiences as marginalized people in psychology, and provide a safe space to cultivate expressive art in whichever way feels most aligned in the moment.
Participants will be invited to create letters, essays, poems, and/or artwork in real time to highlight the depth and complexity of marginalized students and professionals entrenched in the system of mental health training and practice. Participants will then be invited (not required) to share their work or reflect in community about the process of engaging in creative expression alongside their peers.
Queer Tatreez Circle
Event Details
(PAST EVENT)
DATE: Thursday, October 23rd
TIME: 7:00pm-9:00pm
COST: Sliding scale starting at $10, all materials provided with registration fee
LOCATION: Metro/Metrobus and wheelchair accessible location off U Street Metro stop, street parking available. Address to be shared after registration.
Meet your queer and trans neighbors, and learn the traditional Palestinian art of tatreez, guided by @thetatreezgrove’s Feed Gaza NOW toolkit as part of the #GlobalStitchAlong. 100% of registration fee will support queer and trans Palestinian mutual aid via the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD).
Reclaiming Counternarratives: Telesupervisors’ Role in Supporting Diverse Trainees
HOSTED BY: The Multicultural Counseling Institute
Recording Available for Purchase
$35 - 1.5 APA CE Credit & PsyPACT
"This was the best training I've been to in years" -Live Session Attendee
White Supremacy, systemic oppression, and Eurocentrism have shaped and pervaded psychological science, practice, and training (Guthrie, 2004; Mullan, 2023). Training programs model trainee development based on a master narrative constructed from this lens. “A master narrative is a script that specifies and controls how some social processes are carried out,” and “[acts] to universalize and cast dialogues in binary, contrasting categories that support the maintenance of dominant groups” (Stanley, 2007, p. 14). Internalizing a master narrative that does not align with their cultural experiences and worldview can lead marginalized trainees to have difficulty developing a positive clinical identity, and feel inadequate, confused, and without agency in the training process (Brunsma et al., 2017; Denu, 2023; Lund et al., 2014; Lykins, 2021; McLean & Syed, 2016).
Supervisory relationships are foundational for developing trainee skill, practice, and clinical identity; thus supervision is a critical site for mitigating the internalization of the master narrative for marginalized trainees. Supervisors are in a unique position to support trainees in developing counternarratives, which seek to identify, deconstruct, and challenge the master narrative through creation of an alternative narrative grounded in their own perspective, culture, and values (Stanley, 2007). In the current digital landscape, supervision is often provided via telehealth or hybrid methods. As such, this program will present strategies for telesupervisors to (1) develop a strong working alliance with marginalized trainees; (2) address the impact of master narratives on trainees’ clinical identity, performance, and well-being during telesupervision; and (3) collaborate with trainees to develop personal counternarratives grounded in their strengths and resistance.
Learning Objectives
(1) Define master narrative and counternarrative, and explain their relevance to telesupervision of psychology trainees.
(2) Identify strategies for developing a strong supervisory relationship in the telesupervision setting.
(3) Address the impact of master narratives on trainees’ clinical identity, performance, and well-being during telesupervision.
(4) Identify ways to collaborate with trainees to develop personal counternarratives grounded in their strengths and resistance during telesupervision.
Joy, Resistance, & Reclamation: Collective Healing of Mental Health Practitioners and Trainees through the Act of Writing and Creating Art
(PAST EVENT)
DATE: Monday, July 28th
TIME: 7:00pm-8:30pm
LOCATION: Zoom link to be sent following registration as calendar invite (with hidden guest list)
HOSTS: Drs. Nadia Alsamadi & Chris Truong
Creative expression is essential to processing, meaning making, resistance, resilience, and healing. We are hosting a virtual community event where participants will be given prompts to reflect on their experiences as marginalized people in psychology, and provide a safe space to cultivate expressive art in whichever way feels most aligned in the moment.
Participants will be invited to create letters, essays, poems, and/or artwork in real time to highlight the depth and complexity of marginalized students and professionals entrenched in the system of mental health training and practice. Creative work can center how relationships, connections, community, and expanding beyond the colonial binary have empowered you to serve your community and resist oppression and subjugation in our field.
Participants will then be invited (not required) to share their work or reflect in community about the process of engaging in creative expression alongside their peers.
Yalla, Queer Dabke!
(PAST EVENT)
Event Details
DATE: Thursday, June 12th
TIME: 7:00pm-8:30pm
COST: $25 (limited sliding scale/no cost spots available!)
LOCATION: Metrobus and wheelchair accessible location in NW DC, street parking available. Address to be shared after registration.
Join Beyond the Binary Psychotherapy and Consulting, PLLC and Malikat Al Dabke to meet your queer and trans neighbors, and learn the steps, rhythm, and cultural significance of this powerful dance of unity and resilience. All profits after operating costs will benefit queer and trans Palestinian mutual aid via the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity (MASGD).
We love and cherish our allies, and request that this event is reserved for folks in the LGBTQ+ community. Allies are warmly invited to donate to this event by sending a Zelle payment to [email protected] with the note "dabke ally". We hope to see you at future events!