Meet the experts and leaders sharing their insights at this year’s conference.
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Keynote Speaker
Dr. Barbara Stroud
Dr. Barbara Stroud
Dr. Barbara Stroud, is a licensed psychologist with a rich clinical and administrative background in culturally informed clinical practice within the fields of early childhood development and mental health. She is a founding organizer and the inaugural president (2017-2019) of the California Association for Infant Mental Health (CalAIMH), a ZERO TO THREE Fellow, and holds prestigious endorsements as an Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist/Reflective Practice Facilitator Mentor. In April of 2018 Dr. Stroud was honored with the Bruce D. Perry Spirit of the Child Award. Additionally, in 2025 Dr. Stroud received the CalAIMH Alicia Lieberman IMH Leadership Award. Dr. Stroud has published two book chapters, 4 books, and most recently an article in the Journal of Infant Mental Health entitled: What supervisors are saying and not saying about culture, privilege and equity in mental health settings. Furthermore, her YouTube channel offers a library of training videos free to all. Dr. Stroud remains steadfast in her mission to ‘change the world – one relationship at a time’.
Title: Relationships as a Protective Factor
Description:
This training will focus on the power of relationships as a tool for resilience. What does the literature tell us about the protective factors embedded in responsive relationships. How can providers connect to family culture, or traditions, to define strengths, fuel resilience, and facilitate personal protective factors. Attendees will leave with action steps to facilitate resilience, relationship strategies to manage stress, and tools to invite family culture into the work.
Objectives:
Following this training attendees will demonstrate the below outcomes:
The ability to define resilience and name indicators of resilience within individuals or family systems
List 3 positive outcomes of storytelling
List 2 protective factors supported by the literature
Session 1 Breakout Presenters
AM Session 1-
Presentation Title: Attachment, Trauma, and Immigration-Related Stress: Culturally Responsive Strategies for Supporting Children and Families
AM Session 2-
Presentation Title: Restoring Safety and Connection in Uncertain Times: A Neurobiology-Informed Approach to Supporting Latino Children, Families, and Communities
Session 2 Breakout Presenters
PM Session 3-
Presentation Title: Holding the Weight: Clinical Strategies for Therapist Sustainability During Collective Stress
PM Session 4 -
Presentation Title: Where Healing finds a voice: Integrating Expressive Practices in Trauma Informed Care
Closing Keynote Speaker
Dr. Andrés J. Consoli
Dr. Andrés J. Consoli
Andrés J. Consoli is a bilingual professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, with affiliations across Chicana/o Studies, Spanish and Portuguese, and Latin American and Iberian Studies. His work focuses on multicultural and transnational approaches to mental health, including psychotherapy training, treatment selection, and expanding equitable access to services through a social justice lens.
Dr. Consoli has authored over 100 publications and has contributed to major works in the field, including leading the Comprehensive Textbook of Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press) and coediting Forging Caminos: Pathways to Becoming a Bilingual Mental Health Professional (American Psychological Association).
Presentation Title: “The Person of the Therapist: Being Well to Serve Well” / “La Persona del Terapeuta: Estar Bien Para Servir Bien”
Description: The practice of psychotherapy has been described alternatively as “a toxic profession” (Sigmund Freud), “an impossible profession” (Janet Malcolm), or “the harvest of human misery” (Hanif Kureishi). In other words, the nature of psychotherapy exposes its practitioners to some of the most challenging human travails and shortcomings.
Accordingly, the practice of psychotherapy can take a toll on the provider, particularly among bilingual professionals. In this presentation we will review the corpus of research on distress, burnout, and impairment and the role of wellness, including culturally-congruent norms and culturally-grounded practices.
Practitioners are expected to engage proactively in their wellbeing and to be vigilant of instances when they may be experiencing signs of distress, burnout, or impairment. Likewise, supervisors are expected to attend to their own wellbeing and that of their supervisees. These responsibilities may obscure contextual or systemic dimensions that may be weighing on the bilingual practitioner, above and beyond service delivery.
“Being well to serve well” involves acknowledging the humanity of psychotherapy providers as well as their uniqueness as cultural beings. Wellbeing is made particularly relevant when the professional lives of the providers embrace the personal lives of the practitioners. Psychotherapists are better off when their cultural selves are affirmed in their practice in an idiographic manner. Accordingly, participants are invited to share what has facilitated or impeded their pursuit of meaning in the profession as well as their personal and communal wellbeing.
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