Dr. Kimber Shelton is a Licensed Psychologist and owner of KLS Counseling & Consulting Services. She specializes in the areas of cultural competence, ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ issues, trauma, and relationship concerns. Dr. Shelton has over 20 publications including A Handbook on Counseling African American Women: Psychological Symptoms, Treatments, and Case Studies, which received the 2023 Association for Women in Psychology Distinguished Publication Award. Focused on increasing access to care and destigmatizing psychotherapy, she has contributed to articles published on Yahoo!, CNN, and Huffington Post. A national and international presenter, Dr. Shelton has provided cultural competence training to thousands of mental health professionals; she cofounded Counseling Black Women, which will hold their second conference, Freedom Movement: Liberating Black Women's Mental Wellness in October. Dr. Shelton is the former Texas Psychological Association Diversity Division co-chair, and APA Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity committee member. An award-winning psychologist, Dr. Shelton is the 2023 Black Mental Health Symposium Distinguished Practitioner of the Year, 2022 TPA Citizen Psychologist, received the University of Georgia Professional Achievement Award, and Pure Leaf/Pepsi-Cola No Grant. She earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Georgia and MS in Mental Health Counseling from Niagara University.

CEU Objectives: 

Decolonizing Therapy with Black Women

1. Review common mental health and sociocultural issues impacting the mental wellness of Black women.

2. Define decolonization and liberation psychology principles.

3. Examine methods for integrating decolonization principles into psychotherapy work with Black women.