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Digital Seminar

Culture-Centered Case Conceptualization

Strategies to Address Identity, Race, and Systemic Stressors in Clinical Practice

Speaker:
Janeé Steele, PhD, LPC
Duration:
3.5 Hours
Copyright:
Mar 10, 2026
Product Code:
POS150553
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

  • Center your client’s cultural and sociopolitical realities in session
  • Integrate systemic oppression and cultural identity into treatment plans
  • Apply the SEEK framework to enhance effectiveness and deepen impact

 

Too often, case conceptualization is reduced to symptom checklists and diagnoses, overlooking how race, culture, and systemic forces shape client experiences …

… leading to treatment plans that feel impersonal, incomplete, or even harmful to clients from marginalized communities.

That’s why educator and author Dr. Janeé Steele created this dynamic training!

You’ll get a clear framework for centering culture, identity, and social context in your case conceptualizations – allowing you to enhance your treatment planning and drive deeper, more meaningful clinical outcomes.

Dr. Steele’s engaging, hands-on learning style will give you a real world cases and guided exercises to help you learn the innovative SEEK framework and create identify-affirming, culturally responsive conceptualizations that enhance your effectiveness and deepen your clinical impact.

Leave this training with the tools you need to:

  • Recognize how culture, power, and oppression influence client presentation
  • Expand case formulations to include identity, environment, and lived experience
  • Strengthen client engagement  by affirming sociocultural context in treatment planning

Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your cultural competence and transform how you conceptualize, connect with, and care for your  clients.

Register today!

Credit

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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Speaker

Janeé Steele, PhD, LPC's Profile

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Janeé M. Steele, PhD, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor, counselor educator, and expert in culturally responsive practice. She is the owner of Kalamazoo Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, PLLC, and has published extensively on racial identity, internalized oppression, and multicultural counseling. Dr. Steele is author of the book Racism and African American Mental Health: Using Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Empower Healing, with forward by Judith S. Beck, and co-author of the book Black Lives Are Beautiful: 50 Tools to Heal From Trauma and Promote Positive Racial Identity. Her other publications and research interests focus on counselor training, social justice, and multicultural counseling competence.

Dr. Steele’s expertise on these topics is widely recognized and has been featured by various organizations and media outlets such as the American Counseling Association, Counseling Today, Psychology Today, Psychiatric Times, the National Social Anxiety Center, and Vogue. This expertise is further shared through her work as an associate editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, a member of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies’ Diversity Action Committee, and an appointed member of the American Counseling Association’s Research and Knowledge Committee. As a presenter, Dr. Steele is known for her engaging, down-to-earth trainings that help clinicians translate inclusion principles into everyday practice.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Janee Steele has employment relationships with Kalamazoo Cognitive & Behavioral Therapy, PPLC. CBT of Central and South Florida, and Walden University. She receives royalties as a published author. Janee Steele receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Janee Steele is a member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT), the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (ACBT), the American Counseling Association (ACA), the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES), and the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development.


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Objectives

  1. Identify common gaps in traditional case conceptualization
  2. Identify how racial, cultural, and systemic variables shape clinical presentation.
  3. Use a structured template to create culturally responsive case formulations.
  4. Integrate culturally responsive case formulations into client-centered goals and planning.

Outline

Reframe Case Conceptualization for a Multicultural World

  • Common limitations of standard models and potential risks
  • Cultural omissions as areas of limited insight
  • Benefits of culturally inclusive formulations

Mapping What Matters: the SEEK Framework

  • Sociocultural Identity
    • Identify clients’ salient cultural identities
    • Examine intersections of identity and their impact on lived experience
    • Case Study: 16-year-old African American Muslim Adolescent
  • Environmental/Systemic Influences
    • Systemic oppression and inequities affecting clients
    • Environmental stressors and historical trauma as contributions to distress
    • Case Study: 28-year-old Mexican American Man with Undocumented Parents
  • Emotional/Cognitive Narratives
    • Cultural narratives shaping clients’ self-perception and worldview
    • Assess internalized beliefs and meaning-making processes
    • Understand how these factors influence emotional and cognitive functioning
    • Case Study: 29-year-old first-Generation Korean American Therapist-in-Training
  • Knowledge of Strengths and Supports
    • Recognize culturally rooted strengths and protective factors
    • Identify community supports and sources of resilience
    • Integrate these strengths into treatment planning
    • Case Study; 42-year-old African American Father Recovering from Alcohol Use
  • Clinical Self-Reflection and Cultural Humility
    • Reflect on the clinician’s own cultural positioning and worldview
    • Evaluate how personal biases and cultural lens shape case conceptualization
  • Practice and Application
    • Generate treatment-relevant insights and culturally grounded hypotheses
    • Debrief on challenges, insights, and clinical implications
    • Analyze case: 24-year-old Multiracial (Black and Filipina) woman
    • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Case Managers
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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