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Starting October 12, 2024

Making Room for Multiplicity: Therapy with Multiracial Couples w/ Mary Kim Brewster, PhD

Course description

This five-week course will provide beginning and experienced practitioners with a theoretical foundation and practical guidelines for conducting therapy with couples where one member identifies as Asian and the other as White, Black, Brown, Mixt, multiracial, or multiethnic.


Participants will be introduced to an integrated systemic- relational/psychodynamic approach to couple therapy that is aimed toward helping members of a multiracial couple move from misapprehension to greater understanding of the other. 


Throughout this course we will consider how categorical models of monoracial relationships operate to maintain hegemonic and normative ideals that place psychic tension on the individual and specific familial and societal pressures on the couple. Special attention will be dedicated to how individual experiences of racialization, marginalization, immigration, and assimilation, as well as intergenerational familial histories of colonization, enslavement, and war, inform the emotional positions and dynamic interactions of the couple. 


Classes will focus on systemic- relational theory, specific interventions used in couple therapy, and case discussions. Participants are encouraged to bring both case and autobiographical material for discussion with the larger group.

Who is this course for?

  • This course is for beginning and experienced therapists working with either couples or individuals who are interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the dynamics of multiracial relationships.
  • Clinicians in both private practice and community mental health are welcome.
  • This course is for clinicians who self-identify as Asian / Asian American.

Details

  • Starts on 10.12.24. No class on 10.19.24
  • Saturdays 8am-930 PST / 11am-1230pm EST
  • 5 sessions
  • 8 participants
  • Fees: $400 - $450
  • Virtual. On Zoom
  • Please read participant's expectations and FAQs before registering

To Register

Instructor

Mary Kim Brewster, Ph.D (she/her) is a clinical psychologist, the Director of the Serious Mental Illness and the Family Project, and former faculty member, of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York. 


Her publications, and national and international presentations, address the impact of a serious mental illness on family well-being, clinical processes in systemic-relational therapy, and the effects of racial and gender marginalization, exclusion, and violence on couple and family relationships. Her current clinical research and writing focuses on the subjective experiences of Asian Americans in psychodynamic psychotherapy. 


Dr. Brewster supervises the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York and has a private practice specializing in individuals, couples, and families. 

Expectations of Participants

Barring extenuating circumstances, participants in TAACP’s courses agree to attend all sessions, arriving on time for the entire duration of class. 


As classes are online, ensure that you are in a quiet and private space that allows for both audio and video to be on. 


Classes are small to encourage dialogue. We encourage you to “take” your share of talking time and listening time. 

Keep other participants’ experience and clinical information confidential. 

All involved with TAACP (staff, volunteers, faculty, participants, guests) are expected to interact with each other with respect.


Issues that arise will be first discussed / addressed with the immediate folks involved and can be progressed to include faculty and/or TAACP’s administration.   

Frequently Asked Questions

Unfortunately, not at this time. If you can or know of someone who can help us get approved nationwide, please email hello@taacp.org.

Course fees are split between instructors and the Center. We believe in valuing the time and work of our instructors.  The fees to Center support operating costs for current and future programming.  At this time, our non-teaching staff are volunteers. 

Due to the size of the courses (8 participants), your presence is important so we hope that you make every effort to attend class. And, life happens. 


However, there will be no recordings of sessions. We want to encourage participants to feel at ease to share personal and/or clinical material. 

We want to offer a space for Asian / Asian American clinicians to be, to learn, to question, to create, and to support one another.  And, from this space, our hope is that we can have more nuanced conversations and in depth explorations of the intersection of Asian subjectivities and psychoanalysis.


Our one time events are open to all.  And, in the future, we might offer courses for non-Asian clinicians. 

If you need to withdraw from enrollment, full refund will be given to up to 2 weeks prior to class start minus a processing fee of $25.  If withdrawn with less than 2 weeks of start of class, you will be charged a $50 processing fee. 


No refunds once classes begin or for missed classes. Extenuating circumstances will be considered.


In the event that the Center has to cancel a course, full refund will be provided. 

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