Course Description

With the growth of a global Black Lives Matter movement in the midst of COVID 19, psychotherapists—whether White, Black, or Brown—need new tools and language to meet these intersecting crises within and outside the session. Drawing on critical race theory, psychotherapy research, and clinical practice, this course will address how to think clinically about anti-Blackness in assessment and treatment with Black and non-Black clients.


A portion of ticket sales for this course will go toward a fund for BIPOC students at the New School’s MA program in general psychology. This fund will support new generations of researchers and practitioners committed to social and racial justice.

This course will allow you to:

  • Understand how anti-Black racism is different from, yet foundational to, other forms of racism and oppression.

  • Develop skills for talking about anti-Blackness in psychotherapy that are organic and culturally congruent with the client’s experience.

  • Explore their countertransference as Black, non-Black, or White therapists toward talking about anti-Blackness clinically and professionally.

  • Identify scalable, actionable goals for continued training related to these themes in themselves, their practices, and institutions.

Meet Your Instructor

Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD

Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD, is assistant director of the clinical psychology program at the New School for Social Research, and director of the Frantz Fanon Center for Intersectional Psychology. Originally from Puerto Rico, his scholarship explores how psychoanalysis and Liberation Psychology helps us understand anti-Blackness within the Latinx community, society, and the consulting room. He was featured in the documentary Psychoanalysis in El Barrio, and is an analytic candidate at NYU Post-Doc. He is the author of the book A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology, and a member of the Nuyorican poetry troupe The Títere Poets.

Past Participant Testimonials

"This training explored anti-Blackness on so many levels at once: socio-historical, psychological, personal, familial, and "in the body". It was truly remarkable how well grounded it was in the clinical/practice relationship. I loved how he brought in very relevant examples from several different perspectives of clients (white, non-white, Black). Dr. Gaztambide's presentation style is incredibly engaging. This is much needed work that is not happening in my current institute, and was both relieving and inspiring to see."

Anonymous

"I am able to think and reflect upon the how antiblack racism shows up in a variety of ways in our therapeutic encounters. The instructor was excellent and very reflective. This workshop has given me hope that pedagogically this social justice can be taught and learned in a powerful way within the discipline of psychology."

Tammy G.

Continuing Education: 2 Contact Hours Earned

Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course curriculum, the certificate of completion you receive afterward and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.

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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Course Introduction

    • Course Description

    • Meet Your Instructor

    • Getting to know you and your goals
  • 2

    Lesson Video

    • Part 1: Understanding Anti-Blackness through the instructor's historical context; Black Experience in America; Dehumanization of Black people

    • Part 2: Mentalization and blackness; Black ontology; Social hierarchies; Neuroscience of dehumanization

    • Part 3: Racial identity and social rank; Research illustrating anti-Blackness; Black Lives Matter; Non-contingent propositions
  • 3

    CE Quiz

    • CE Quiz
  • 4

    Course Wrap-Up

    • Course Survey