Cultural Broaching in Counseling: Strengthening Cultural Humility in Practice

Description

This course is a live, interactive webinar held on October 23, 2026, from 11am-12:30pm Eastern Daylight Time.

Registration closes at midnight (EDT) the day before the event

Cultural broaching is not a single skill. It is an intentional clinical stance that shapes safety, trust, and therapeutic depth. This course equips clinicians to recognize and respond to moments when culture is present in the room but left unspoken.

When cultural dynamics are avoided, therapeutic ruptures can quietly emerge. When addressed skillfully, alliance and insight deepen. Join this course to strengthen your ability to navigate cultural conversations with confidence, humility, and clarity.

Taqueena Quintana and David Ford are licensed professional counselors, clinical supervisors, and counselor educators with extensive experience integrating cultural humility into clinical practice, supervision, and training. Their work spans diverse client populations and complex systems, where broaching conversations around race, identity, power, and lived experience are essential to ethical care. Both are nationally recognized for their advocacy and service to marginalized populations, highlighted by Dr. Quintana’s award from the NBCC Minority Fellowship Program and Dr. Ford’s appointment as Co-Chair of the ACA DEIJ Task Force.

Their teaching approach is experiential and case-based, blending real-world clinical scenarios, guided reflection, and video analysis. Participants will not only learn concepts but also actively practice identifying broaching opportunities, formulating responses, and evaluating clinical alignment with cultural humility and therapeutic safety.

This course explores common clinical scenarios in which cultural broaching opportunities emerge or are unintentionally avoided, including moments of microaggressions, value conflicts, and identity-based assumptions. Participants will examine practical strategies for initiating and sustaining broaching conversations while maintaining rapport. Through case studies and video demonstrations, clinicians will analyze therapist responses for alignment with cultural humility and psychological safety. The course also addresses barriers to broaching, including clinician discomfort, fear of rupture, and systemic influences on practice.

Key Takeaways:

• Recognize broaching moments: Identify when culture is present but unaddressed in clinical work.
• Apply practical strategies: Use structured approaches to initiate and sustain cultural dialogue.
• Evaluate clinical alignment: Assess responses through the lens of humility and therapeutic safety.

Why This Course?

• Cultural silence has consequences: Skillful broaching strengthens alliance and reduces harm.
• Led by experienced clinician-educators: Grounded in real-world practice and supervision.
• Experiential, case-based learning: Move beyond theory using case studies and video analysis to develop skills you can apply immediately.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss common clinical scenarios in which cultural broaching opportunities emerge or are avoided.
• Examine at least two practical strategies for initiating and sustaining cultural broaching conversations.
• Analyze clinician responses in case-based and video demonstrations to assess alignment with cultural humility and therapeutic safety.

Cultural broaching is a lifelong practice that strengthens ethical, responsive care. If you are ready to move from awareness to intentional action, this course will provide the clarity and structure to do so. Register today and deepen your capacity for culturally attuned clinical work.

Format and Access

This course is a live, interactive webinar.

Course Details

Schedule: (listed in Eastern Daylight Time)

• 11:00 am - 11:35 am Lecture
• 11:35 am - 11:45 am Q&A
• 11:45 am - 12:20 pm Lecture
• 12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Q&A

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a live, interactive webinar. Enrollment includes access to live event(s) but does not include recordings of the presentations.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructors

About Taqueena S. Quintana, Ed.D, LCPC, LPC, LPCC, NCC, ACS, BC-TMH

Dr. Taqueena Quintana is a licensed clinical professional counselor, nationally certified counselor (NCC), approved clinical supervisor (ACS), board-certified telemental health counselor (BC-TMH), registered yoga teacher (RYT-200), counselor educator, author, and consultant. She has over 15 years’ experience in education and counseling within various settings including K-12 institutions, colleges/universities, private practice, military installations, hospitals, and community mental health agencies.

Dr. Quintana is dedicated to supporting and preparing the next generation of professional counselors to serve historically excluded groups and communities. She has presented nationally and internationally at various counseling conferences and has published peer-reviewed articles that focus on culturally responsive practices in counseling. Her research interests include counseling military-connected youth, immigrant mental health, clinical supervision, school-based mental health, supporting students with disabilities, anti-racist counseling, and telemental health.

Dr. Quintana was awarded for her work in advocating for underserved, underrepresented, and marginalized communities by the National Board of Certified Counselors Minority Fellowship Program. Through NBCC, she currently volunteers as a mentor for emerging professional counselors who serve similar populations.
She holds a BA in History with a Minor in Puerto Rican, Africana, and Latin American Studies from CUNY Hunter College, an M.S.Ed. in Teaching Students with Disabilities and an M.S.Ed. in School Counseling, both from CUNY Brooklyn College, and an EdD in Counselor Education & Supervision from Argosy University- Northern Virginia.

About David Ford, Jr., Ph.D., LCMHC, LPC, NCC, ACS

David Julius Ford, Jr., holds a B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, both from Wake Forest University. In May 2014, he earned his Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision at Old Dominion University. Dr. Ford is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia and New Jersey. He is a Board-Certified Counselor (NCC) and Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS). Dr. Ford taught for four years at James Madison University and is now a Tenured Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Professional Counseling at Monmouth University, where he is in his seventh-year teaching. He is Past-President of the New Jersey Counseling Association. He is Past Co-Chair of the Branch Development Committee of the American Counseling Association, a member of the Black Male Experience Task Force of the American Counseling Association, Past Board Trustee for Counselor Education and Research for the National Career Development Association, a division of the American Counseling Association. He is the North Atlantic Region Representative to the ACA Governing Council and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Counselor Education and Supervision and the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. Dr. Ford sits on the Board of Trustees of the Brookdale Community College Foundation and on the Inspiring Life Board of Directors. He was recently appointed to be Co-Chair of the ACA DEIJ Task Force.

Dr. Ford’s professional interests are Black Greek life; multicultural issues; college students; Black men in higher education; career counseling; addictions counseling; supervision; group work; qualitative research; queer and trans BIPOC; Intersectionality; and persons living with HIV/AIDS. He has experience as an instructor for undergraduate human services courses and has taught graduate courses in counseling skills, multicultural counseling, career counseling, testing and assessment, clinical mental health counseling, addictions counseling, practicum supervision, lifespan development, and group counseling. He has also taught a doctoral-level dissertation course and a doctoral-level course in grant-writing and program evaluation and advanced theories. He is one of 24 inaugural doctoral fellows of the NBCC Minority Fellowship Program. He is the 2020 recipient of the AMCD Samuel H. Johnson Distinguished Service Award and the 2020 ACES Outstanding Counselor Education and Supervision Article Award. Dr. Ford is a classically trained pianist and is a proud, active, and financial member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. As an undergraduate, he had the privilege of taking a class taught by the late Dr. Maya Angelou. Dr. Ford currently lives in Ocean, New Jersey.

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

Credit Hours:

This course consists of 1.5 continuing education hours of credit.

Counselors:

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Marriage and Family Therapists:

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Addiction Professionals:
 

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Psychologists:

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Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 90 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This course is an-interactive, live online webinar.

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Agreement

By registering for this event you are agreeing to the following:

• 24 hour notice is required if you are not able to make it to a live event. Recordings are not provided to webinar registrants.
• To update and test using Zoom.us/test before the event to ensure you are ready for the event.
• Since this is a live interactive event it means that your interaction during the event is expected.  Your name and image will be visible to other participants during the live event. You will NOT be included in any recording made.
• An evaluation must be completed within one week of the event. Continuing Education credit(s) cannot be issued unless you attend the event and the evaluation is submitted.  (Evaluation is not mandatory for APA hours)
• Partial CE credits are not possible; therefore you are required to be present throughout the event in order to receive CE credits.
• Respect all other participants during the event as though you would if you were sitting with the other attendees at a conference table:
  • Dress appropriately
  • Be in a private location void of distractions
  • Do not multitask
  • Do not drive during an event
  • Remain on mute unless you are sharing with the group

Accommodations and Policies

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