Upcoming Webinars
Racial Macroaggressions, Racial Battle Fatigue, and Racism-Related Stress in Counseling
As a part of its Innovations in Counseling Series, the NBCC Foundation invites you to a free webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, from 1–2 pm EDT. Live webinars are available at no cost, and documentation of one clock hour of continuing education is available for registrants who attend the full webinar.
Counselors of color regularly experience macroaggressions, racial battle fatigue, and attacks on their marginalized identities. They carry these experiences through their training, sessions with clients, and careers as licensed professionals. Participants of this session will learn how racism-related stress and subsequent response impact counselors of color and cross over into their lives outside the workplace. The impact of these experiences on counselors and their families can be determinantal, leading to pushout and burnout. It may also cause families to urge counselors to leave the profession. This is a meaningful conversation, as there continues to be an increasing emphasis on recruiting and retaining counselors of color.
After this presentation, participants will be able to:
- develop a clear understanding of how macroaggressions, racial battle fatigue, and attacks on the identities of counselors of color may impact them and their support systems.
- outline ways that counselors of color can navigate attacks on their identities from their colleagues and clients.
- identify skills that help counselors of color navigate these experiences and make decisions that help improve their lives.
Presenters
Dèsa Karye Daniel, PhD, NCC, LMHC
Dr. Dèsa Karye Daniel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New Mexico and Colorado. Dr. Daniel’s research interest focuses on supervision relationships for racial/ethnic minorities, the lived experiences of racial/ethnic college students, and the experiences of Black/African American Womxn in academic spaces. Dr. Daniel advocates for inclusive spaces for racial/ethnic minority students within academia and organizations to increase graduate student resources. She received her doctoral degree in counselor education at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Daniel holds dual master’s degrees in clinical mental health counseling and higher education administration from New Mexico State University. Dr. Daniel was named a 2021 New Mexico Office of African American Affairs Everyday Hero for her mental health work with Black communities. She is also a recipient of a 2020 NBCC Minority Fellowship.
Asia Lyons, EdD
Dr. Asia Lyons is the founder and Lead Consultant for Lyons Educational Consulting LLC, a consulting and coaching firm that supports schools and nonprofits through equity auditing of their programming, co-creation of culturally responsive programming and curriculum, and job-embedded coaching. Before founding Lyons Educational Consulting, Dr. Lyons worked as a K–12 educator for over 10 years. She also served as the equity in schools specialist in a Denver, Colorado-based nonprofit. She worked with schools and nonprofit partners across the Denver metro area to provide communities with resources to support closing the access gap for BIPOC youth. In addition to her work in coaching and consulting, Dr. Lyons is a graduate instructor in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver. She has a doctorate in leadership for educational equity; her research focuses on how racial battle fatigue crosses over from Black educators to their families. Finally, Dr. Lyons is the cohost of The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators. The podcast hopes to inform school district administrators, teachers’ unions, families, educators, and others interested in better understanding the challenges of retaining Black people in education.
Diandra A. Walker, MS
Diandra A. Walker is a second-year master’s student in the counseling program, clinical mental health track, at the University of Colorado Denver. She works in the athletic department at the University of Colorado Boulder as a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Coordinator. In this role, she organizes educational and community-building programming for student-athletes, coaches, and staff; established a mentorship program for student-athletes of color; and collaborates with other departments to advance diversity and inclusion initiatives. Outside school and work, Diandra works with local high school sports teams as a mental performance coach, teaching young athletes how to develop their mental game through weekly workshops. Her professional interests include working with collegiate athletes on mental health and mental performance while also working with student-athletes of color on their transition and finding community. In May 2021, she completed a master’s degree in kinesiology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a concentration in sport psychology and motor behavior. While at the University of Tennessee, she was a graduate research assistant in the Office of Multicultural Student Life. Her responsibilities included co-advising two student groups, co-teaching an upper-level psychology course, and creating a mental health initiative for students of color.
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