This course does not offer CE Credits. The same course is available for purchase and offers 1 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
The work of healing racial trauma must do more than acknowledge injustice—it must actively dismantle inequities, even through a screen. Clinicians providing telehealth services to BIPOC clients must be equipped with trauma-responsive, culturally grounded, anti-racist practices that go beyond conventional care.
In this timely and powerful self-study course, behavioral health professionals are invited to reimagine how they engage racial and ethnic trauma in virtual spaces. With an emphasis on justice, embodiment, and cultural responsiveness, this training offers both inspiration and practical tools for deeper, more ethical healing work through telehealth.
Dr. Ritchie J. Rubio, a clinical psychologist and global leader in trauma-informed, culturally responsive practices, brings his decades of experience as a clinician, academic, and public health systems consultant to this course. His unique expertise spans multicultural settings, expressive therapies, and data-driven implementation—making him an ideal guide for integrating equity into evidence-based practice.
Dr. Rubio takes a grounded, integrative approach to the material, blending neuroscience, expressive arts, narrative therapy, CBT, and Indigenous healing models. He emphasizes culturally adapted interventions that address not only clinical efficacy but also digital inequity and systemic oppression in telehealth delivery.
Topics covered include the Healing Ethno And Racial Trauma (HEART) Framework, culturally adapted TF-CBT and sandtray therapy, intergenerational transmission of trauma, narrative exposure therapy, racial and ethnic socialization, and trauma-informed mindfulness. Additional strategies include somatic regulation, metaphors from culturally specific foods, storytelling, and digital tools designed to center the body and culture in healing.
Key Takeaways:
Understand the roots of racial trauma: Learn how to define, assess, and respond to racial and ethnic trauma within the therapeutic encounter.
Deliver equitable care via telehealth: Gain strategies to recognize and bridge digital divides while ensuring ethical access and inclusion for BIPOC clients.
Adapt trauma treatments culturally: Explore concrete, evidence-based adaptations of trauma-focused interventions for BIPOC clients across cultures and modalities.
Why This Course?
A clinician’s course for clinicians: This training is led by a practitioner-scholar who understands the realities of clinical work with diverse populations—and the institutional pressures clinicians face.
More than cultural competence: Go beyond checklists and surface-level inclusion to learn embodied, justice-oriented telehealth practices that truly resonate with clients.
Innovative, experiential, research-informed: This course merges clinical rigor with creativity, grounded in the latest literature and enriched by global clinical wisdom.
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 the end of this course, you’ll be better prepared to meet your clients in their full humanity—culture, body, and story included—even across digital divides. We invite you to explore this deeply relevant and restorative training.
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This is a non-interactive, self-study program and consists of 1 hour of video instruction and evaluation.
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. This continuing education course is designed for licensed behavioral health professionals and provides training in suicide prevention using expressive arts as an integrative approach. However, this is not a creative arts therapy course and does not provide training in creative arts therapy.
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: Instructions for attending and completing a course can be found here.
Ritchie Rubio Ph.D.
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.
Disclosure Statement: The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.
This course does not offer CE credits, just great content.
The same course is available for purchase and offers 1 CE hour for behavioral health clinicians. See "related products" below.
This course is a non-interactive, online self-study.
Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of completion to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.
