NARTIC Events

NARTIC is continuing our Open House events.

These events are designed to bring together the NARTIC community, offer presentations of the work being done, and host guest speakers on antiracism in counseling. Here are the planned dates in the coming months:

Saturday, October 3 Open House
11:00am to 12:30pm PST / 1:00-2:30pm CST / 2:00-3:30pm EST
Saturday, November 7 Open House
11:00am to 12:30pm PST / 1:00-2:30pm CST / 2:00-3:30pm EST
Saturday, December 5 Open House
11:00am to 12:30pm PST / 1:00-2:30pm CST / 2:00-3:30pm EST

These NARTIC Open Houses are intended as a safe space for folks to come together on a regular basis to foster community, share ideas, and grow together. Registration links will be posted as each date approaches.

NARTIC is hosting upcoming webinars.

These free webinars are sponsored by NARTIC and led by guest speakers for the community to come together and learn more about anti-oppression in counseling. Here is what is scheduled for this spring:

What We Avoid, They Inherit: The Ethical Imperative of Moving from Discomfort to Mastery in Conversations about Race and Racism
Friday October 16, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:30pm Pacific (US and Canada)

Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_d3iZDLLTeaPhs1NaRHjrA

What does it mean for antiracism to be an ethical responsibility in counselor preparation?

In this webinar, three counselor educators explore why antiracism must extend beyond multicultural awareness or competence and become an active part of how counselors are educated, supervised, and prepared for clinical practice. They will argue that antiracism is a professional and ethical imperative grounded in the duty of counselor educators and supervisors to prepare competent, culturally responsive practitioners (Neville et al., 2013).

The discussion examines the importance of creating educational and training environments that encourage reflexivity, accountability, and meaningful engagement with issues of race and racism. It also explores the ethical responsibility of counselor educators to recognize and address racism at individual, institutional, and systemic levels, and the ways personal factors, including beliefs, attitudes, resistance, and anxiety can shape learning and supervision.

Counselor educators and supervisors often carry understandable anxiety about broaching topics of race and racism with their students and supervisees. Yet when that anxiety goes unexamined, it can become avoidance, and avoidance is never neutral. It can be transmitted to supervisees, who enter the field without the practice or confidence to initiate these conversations with their own clients (Day-Vines et al., 2022). Supervisors hold a professional responsibility to ensure that the counselors they train and mentor are willing and able to enter these conversations, not merely aware that they should. Research has shown that changing attitudes alone may not move the needle; experiential learning and structured practice are needed to support meaningful change (Pieterse et al., 2016). Central to this discussion is the ethical obligation to move through, rather than around, our own discomfort so that we can model these conversations and create repeated, supported, increasingly authentic opportunities to engage. These mastery experiences build supervisees’ self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997).

This webinar is designed as a brave space: a place where counselor educators and supervisors can name their own hesitations, practice the language of broaching, and leave with greater skill, and less fear, for doing antiracist work. Participants will be invited to consider what antiracist counselor preparation looks like in practice and how educators can move from awareness toward concrete changes in teaching, supervision, and professional training.

Speakers

Colleen Lam Nguyen, PhD, LMFT (she/her)
Colleen Lam Nguyen has been in the mental health profession for 15 years and specializes in anxiety, depression, and trauma in her counseling practice. She is also an adjunct faculty instructor in the PsyD and Counseling Psychology Departments at the University of San Francisco. Colleen earned her PhD in Counselor Education from Oregon State University, where her doctoral research examined antiracist counselor training and applied praxis. Her research interests lie at the intersection of trauma, BIPOC counseling, and transformative antiracist teaching practices in counseling education, interests that connect directly to this webinar’s focus on what antiracist counselor preparation requires in practice.
Nelandra Anselmo, PhD, LMFT (she/her)
Nelandra Anselmo maintains a private practice supporting individuals, couples, and families in Nevada and serves as an adjunct instructor in the Couple & Family Therapy program at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr. Anselmo is an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor for MFT and CPC interns in Nevada and a certified EMDR therapist. As a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE), and Certified Job and Career Development Coach, she also partners with organizations nationwide as a Learning and Culture Consultant to help cultivate high-performing teams and healthy workplace cultures. Nelandra received a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies and Sociology and a Master of Science in Counseling from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and earned her PhD in Counselor Education from Oregon State University. Her doctoral research examined how personality, racial identity, and countertransference shape the counseling self-efficacy of racially minoritized counselors when White clients express racial bias.
James D. Luttrall, PhD, LPC, LAC (he/him)
James D. Luttrall is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Addiction Counselor with more than ten years of experience in behavioral health clinical practice, clinical supervision, and program leadership in correctional substance use disorder treatment. He is also an adjunct instructor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in addiction counseling, clinical supervision, and professional ethics. James earned his PhD in Counselor Education from Oregon State University, where his doctoral research examined color-blind racial attitudes and antiracist counseling self-efficacy among behavioral health professionals. His work connects the ethical case for antiracist education to the structured, repeated practice it takes to build counselor self-efficacy.

References

Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. Macmillan.

Day-Vines, N. L., Brodar, J. R., Hicks, D., Fernandez-Korto, E. B., Garcia, C., & Jones, K. (2022). An investigation of the relationship between school counselor trainees’ broaching behavior and their racial identity attitudes. Journal of Counseling & Development, 100(1), 3–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12406

Neville, H. A., Awad, G. H., Brooks, J. E., Flores, M. P., & Bluemel, J. (2013). Color-blind racial ideology: Theory, training, and measurement implications in psychology. American Psychologist, 68(6), 455–466. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033282

Pieterse, A. L., Utsey, S. O., & Miller, M. J. (2016). Development and initial validation of the Anti-Racism Behavioral Inventory (ARBI). Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 29(4), 356–381. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2015.1101534

We hope you will join us!

Dec

NARTIC 2025 Open House: 12/6/25

Saturday, December 6, 2025
11:00 AM 12:30 PM
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Interested in what NARTIC is doing and want to find out how to join in and contribute to antiracism in counseling? Please attend one of our upcoming NARTIC Open House events to connect and collaborate.

NARTIC Events

NARTIC is continuing our Open House events.

NARTIC is hosting upcoming webinars.

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