A 60-minute virtual workshop for therapists on the ethics of being visible online, seen through a liberation-oriented lens and centering therapists of color. Friday, December 11 · 12:00–1:00 PM CT · Google Meet · 20 seats.
Beyond Self-Disclosure is a 60-minute live workshop on Google Meet for therapists who want to think more deeply about the ethics of social media. Led by Roy Mong, LPC-Associate, at Colors of Austin Counseling, it goes past the usual rules on self-disclosure and confidentiality to look at power, culture and the attention economy. It's $49 if you register by November 20 and $69 after, with 20 seats.
Most social media ethics training for therapists stops at self-disclosure, dual relationships and confidentiality, and it's often taught from a place of fear. But social media isn't going away. For clinicians with marginalized identities, it can open doors to partnerships, visibility and income that make this work more sustainable. And in a predominantly white field, much of what therapists of color navigate online rarely makes it into the conversation.
Friday, December 11, over the lunch hour, 12:00 to 1:00 PM Central.
Enough people for real conversation, few enough that everyone can take part.
Register by November 20. After that, seats are $69.
We'll look at the ethical responsibilities that come up when clinical knowledge meets a public platform: cultural appropriation, extraction of lived experience, unsolicited clinical interpretation, parasocial relationships, algorithmic incentives and the commodification of healing. Four questions guide the hour.
What power does my professional identity give me here?
Whose experience is being centered? Who is being seen, and who might be put at risk?
Does my work increase people's capacity to understand and act for themselves?
Am I accumulating attention and authority, or using my platform to redistribute them?
You won't leave with a rulebook. You'll leave with clearer questions to bring to your own practice and your own platform.
It's a conversation about ethics and power, open to therapists of every background, with therapists of color at the center.
Register through our secure checkout with your name, email and license or credential.
You'll see a confirmation right away and get a receipt by email.
Ana or Vanessa from our team will email your Google Meet link before the workshop.
Friday, December 11, 12:00–1:00 PM CT. Come ready to reflect and talk.
One price for everyone, with an early-bird rate for the first few weeks. Seats are limited to 20.
Register by Friday, November 20 to save $20 on your seat.
Reserve my seatFrom November 21 until the workshop, or until all 20 seats are filled.
Join Roy and a small group of therapists on Friday, December 11, 12:00–1:00 PM CT. Seats are $49 through November 20 and $69 after. Have a question first? Email us and we'll get back to you.
connect@colorsofaustincounseling.com
Roy is a therapist at Colors of Austin Counseling whose work integrates somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems and liberation psychology within a trauma-informed, anti-colonial framework. He centers cultural humility, relational accountability and community care, with particular attention to BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities. Supervised by Marissa Rivera, MA, LPC-S.
Read Roy’s full bio →Seats are $49 if you register by Friday, November 20, and $69 after that. There are 20 seats in total, so registration closes once they're filled.
Licensed therapists, associates, interns and graduate students in mental health are all welcome. The workshop centers the experiences of therapists of color and is open to therapists of every background.
Not for this workshop. We hope feedback from this first session will help us develop it into a CE course in the future.
The workshop is live on Google Meet. After you register, Ana or Vanessa from our team will email your Meet link before Friday, December 11. No download is needed if you join from a web browser.
No. To keep the conversation open and honest, the workshop isn't recorded, so please plan to join live.
You'll get a full refund if you cancel at least 7 days before the workshop, by Friday, December 4. Refunds aren't available after that. Email connect@colorsofaustincounseling.com to cancel.
Google Meet offers live captions that you can turn on during the session. If you need another accommodation, email connect@colorsofaustincounseling.com and we'll work with you.
Join Roy on Friday, December 11, 12:00–1:00 PM CT. Only 20 seats, and early-bird pricing ends November 20.
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