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Anti-Racist Telehealth Practices for Racial/Ethnic Trauma Healing

Enroll in the Online Self-Study course and complete it at your own pace.
1.5 CE hours available for behavioral health clinicians upon completion.

Behavioral health professionals are encountering a critical and growing need—how to effectively support BIPOC clients who are navigating the lasting effects of racial and ethnic trauma. Telehealth opens new doors, but without anti-racist practices, these virtual spaces risk replicating the same disparities clients face in the real world.

Whether you are a clinician working in community mental health, private practice, or an integrated care setting, this course offers essential guidance for fostering healing, equity, and safety in your telehealth sessions with BIPOC clients.

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Dr. Ritchie Rubio brings over two decades of global clinical and academic experience to this course. A clinical psychologist, expressive arts therapist, trauma consultant, and systems-level leader in San Francisco’s Department of Public Health, Dr. Rubio is deeply immersed in implementing diversity-responsive and trauma-informed care. His work spans continents and communities—bridging clinical excellence with cultural humility.

In this training, Dr. Rubio presents a practical and culturally-anchored approach to anti-racist telehealth practice. He draws on frameworks like the HEART model, culturally adapted TF-CBT, and trauma narrative work, while integrating neuroscience, expressive arts, and body-based strategies tailored to clients’ lived experiences.

Topics explored include race-based trauma theory, culturally adapted mindfulness, intergenerational trauma transmission, storytelling in therapy, distress tolerance tools rooted in cultural traditions, narrative processing (including sandtray and art therapy), trauma-informed telehealth strategies, and tools to address the digital divide and platform inequities.

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Instructor

Ritchie Rubio Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist has and works as a clinical child psychologist, play and expressive arts therapist, researcher-storyteller, program evaluator, statistical consultant, data analyst, telehealth trainer/consultant, and associate professor/lecturer in a variety of clinical and academic settings including public health systems, universities, pediatric hospitals, community mental health settings, schools, and research institutes in three countries: the Philippines, U.S.A., and New Zealand. Dr. Rubio moved from the Philippines at the age of 25, completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with a Child and Family emphasis from the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) through a Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (IFP) grant. He is currently the Director of Practice Improvement and Analytics of the Children, Youth, and Families System of Care (CYF-SOC) Behavioral Health Services (BHS) at the San Francisco Department of Public Health in California, USA. In that role, he plans and coordinates a clinical practice improvement and evaluation program focused on identifying best trauma-informed and diversity-responsive practices; and utilizing implementation science to design and strengthen clinical assessment and interventions. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor at the Counseling Psychology programs of the University of San Francisco and the Berkeley Wright Institute. He teaches courses such as Research and Statistics; Crisis and Trauma Counseling; Neuroscience; Child and Adolescent Counseling; Family Violence and Protection; Individual, and Family Development; and Clinical Assessment and Measures. His clinical work was/is primarily with immigrant and multicultural children/youth and their families. He mostly integrates psychodynamic, attachment, family systems, multicultural, expressive arts, play therapy, and CBT orientations.

Key Takeaways:

  • Understand racial trauma in clinical context: Learn how racial/ethnic trauma uniquely manifests and how it impacts assessment, treatment planning, and engagement.

  • Implement culturally-adapted telehealth strategies: Gain practical methods for adapting evidence-based trauma interventions across diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.

  • Bridge the digital divide in telehealth: Explore accessible tools and approaches for increasing equity in telehealth service delivery.

Why This Course?

  • Equity-driven and clinically grounded: This course integrates evidence-based trauma care with anti-racist, culturally affirming practices for telehealth delivery.

  • Learn from a globally-informed expert: Dr. Rubio’s depth of experience ensures the course speaks directly to the challenges faced by today’s behavioral health providers.

  • Tailored for meaningful change: You’ll leave with practical, adaptable tools—not just theories—that can transform your virtual care with BIPOC clients.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define racial trauma within the context of behavioral health assessment and intervention of BIPOC clients.

  • Identify and describe at least two ways of addressing telehealth inequities and the digital divide when working with BIPOC clients.

  • Illustrate at least two methods of culturally-adapting trauma-focused interventions using telehealth platforms when working with BIPOC clients who present with racial/ethnic trauma.

By combining cultural insight with clinical rigor, this course helps clinicians build safer, more effective telehealth spaces that acknowledge trauma and affirm identity. 

Add this course to your cart as you deepen your commitment to justice and healing in your practice.

This is a non-interactive self-study course. Instruction consists of 1.5 hours of video instruction and a post-test.

Enroll in the 1.5 CE Online Self-Study for $45

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Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to attend: Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.

This program was recorded on March 22, 2022.

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