Culturally Sensitive Approach to working with Latinx Immigrant Families

 Earn 3 CE Contact Hours

This workshop offers a culturally sensitive approach to working with Latinx immigrant families, with particular attention to dilemmas around parenting, intergenerational relationships, migration experiences, and cultural transitions.

Drawing from systemic and relational perspectives, this workshop will explore how culture, identity, family structure, and social context influence parenting practices and therapeutic work with immigrant families. Participants will engage in dialogue and experiential reflection aimed at strengthening culturally responsive and ethically grounded clinical practice.

This workshop is part of a free 2-part clinical conversation series focused on reflective, relational, and culturally responsive practice. Participants are welcome to attend one or both sessions.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Increase understanding of the cultural, migratory, and relational experiences that shape parenting practices and family dynamics within Latinx immigrant families.
• Examine common clinical and ethical dilemmas related to parenting, intergenerational differences, acculturation, and identity in work with immigrant families.
• Develop culturally responsive and relationally grounded interventions that support collaboration, trust, and meaningful engagement with Latinx immigrant families.

Who Should Attend:

Mental health professionals, therapists, social workers, counselors, case managers, students, community-based practitioners, and clinicians interested in reflective practice, ethical decision-making, relational therapy, and culturally responsive clinical work.

Meet Genoveva:

Genoveva Garcia, LCSW, is the Director of the Latinx Youth & Family Immigration Project (LYFIP) and a faculty member at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. She is a relational therapist in private practice with extensive clinical experience supporting individuals, couples, and families across diverse cultural and relational contexts.

Her work centers on helping clients strengthen relationships and transform experiences of struggle into narratives of resilience, agency, and healing. Genoveva specializes in substance use and addiction, trauma, parenting, immigration-related experiences, and life transitions. Drawing from systemic, relational, and experiential approaches, she is deeply committed to fostering conversations that reduce stigma, fortify family bonds, and empower individuals and communities in their path toward emotional well-being.