Understanding the Impact of Race and Racism in

Therapeutic Settings: Building Toward an 

Anti-Oppressive Practice

Presented by Eri Kim, LCSW

Saturday, April 17th
12:00-3:00PM

Via Zoom

3 CE Credits for NYS Social Workers

Engaging in an authentic dialogue about race and racism and addressing the impact in a clinical setting can be difficult for practitioners. This workshop will provide an overview of the history of racism within mental health professions and how it continues to inform the field today. The workshop will use critical race theory to examine the dynamics of power, privilege and oppression at the ideological, institutional, and interpersonal levels. Participants will explore how our own social identities inform our values and assumptions and how they manifest/express themselves in interactions with clients. Participants will learn basic concepts of anti-oppressive practice and how to integrate these into a clinical setting.

Registration has closed.

Eri Kim, LCSW is a private psychotherapist and consultant who is the former Senior Clinical Director of the Anti-Trafficking Program, Community Programs and Hotlines at Safe Horizon, the largest victims’ services agency in the United States. For the last fifteen years, Eri has delivered clinical interventions to survivors of trauma, training on anti-oppressive and evidence-based practices, and supervised social workers. She speaks and consults nationally on complex trauma, interpersonal violence, racism, and poverty. Eri is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the New York University Silver School of Social Work where she teaches Diversity, Racism, Oppression and Privilege in the Human Behavior in the Social Environment curriculum area. Eri started her career at Asian Taskforce Against Domestic Violence where she developed a children's program at the agency's domestic violence shelter. Eri holds a Masters in Social Work from the Silver School of Social Work at NYU and a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University.