Culturally Responsive
Clinical Supervision

The IHC culturally responsive clinical supervision (CRCS) program is an ongoing, comprehensive initiative designed to provide mental health practitioners with the necessary tools and support they need to work more effectively with clients of diverse backgrounds. The program prioritizes

understanding and addressing the systemic inequities experienced by under-resourced groups, and the resulting chronic impact on their individual and collective mental health. These groups may include BIPOC, LGBTQ+, youth, people with disabilities, immigrants, and first-generation families.

Pillars of Supervision

Culturally Responsive

Affirming, valuing and integrating cultural identity into therapeutic work while acknowledging the impacts of racial, spiritual, political, and sociocultural contexts on mental and emotional health.

Social Justice

Taking professional action to resist systems that perpetuate marginalization and mental health stigma, examining bias and privilege, and using anti-oppressive approaches and conceptualization with intent.

Collaboration

Demonstrating a strong commitment to cooperation and collaboration between supervisors, supervisees, clients, stakeholders and the community.

CRCS Philosophy

Through a combination of workshops, seminars, and individual and group supervision sessions, mental health professionals will learn how to tailor their approach to best meet the needs of their clients.

Additionally, clinical supervision will explore:

cultural and social impacts of mental health challenges
relationship between oppression and mental illness
cultural disparities in mental health treatment and service
impacts of diversity, power and privilege in the lives of the people we work with
clinical and ethical responsibilities of working with vulnerable populations
unconscious bias in the clinical setting
self-of-the-therapist literature, interventions, practices and considerations reflecting the needs of more diverse groups