Culturally Informed Therapy for Latino/a/x Clients

 Earn 1.5 CE Contact Hours

This workshop highlights the importance of understanding the cultural values, traditions, and lived experiences of Latino/a/x communities and how these inform therapy. Clinicians will learn to identify both the similarities and differences across Latino identities, including influences of race, geography, immigration, language, and customs while recognizing the unifying values that shape worldview, relationships, and mental health.

Participants will leave with practical, culturally informed strategies to integrate into their clinical practice, supporting more effective engagement, accurate assessment, and meaningful intervention with Latino/a/x clients and families.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• Recognize key nuances within the Latino/a/x population to build a culturally competent clinical framework.
• Understand how cultural values and lived experiences shape worldview, relationships, and mental health.
• Apply culturally informed interventions in therapeutic settings with Latino/a/x clients and families.

Who Should Attend:

Mental health professionals, family therapists, social workers, and clinicians interested in developing a culturally competent approach to working with Latino/a/x clients.

Meet Dr. Narolyn Méndez:

Dr. Narolyn Méndez, PhD, was born to Dominican parents and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. She earned her doctorate in Counseling Psychology at Columbia University, where she completed the Bilingual Latinx Psychology concentration under the mentorship of Dr. Marie Miville and Dr. Derald Wing Sue. During her doctoral studies, she co-authored Microintervention Strategies: What You Can Do to Disarm and Dismantle Individual and Systemic Racism and Bias.

Dr. Méndez went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at Lenox Hill Hospital, specializing in reproductive health. She currently serves as a Maternal Mental Health Psychologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she provides therapy in English and Spanish to women navigating pregnancy, postpartum challenges, and acute mental health symptoms. She is also an Instructor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University and maintains a private practice serving clients across diverse marginalized identities.

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