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:
Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your cultural competence and transform how you conceptualize, connect with, and care for your clients.
Register today!
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.
NOTE: Each purchase includes CE credit for one individual (participants in full attendance will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, Q&A, and others.
Continuing Education Information: Credits listed below are for full attendance at the live, interactive webinar only. This webinar is being broadcast live in real-time and must be attended live, in its entirety, in order to earn credit. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether web-based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact info@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.
Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.
For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
Earn up to 3.5 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession.
This activity qualifies for 3.5 hours of cultural competency instruction. If cultural competency is not specified within your licensing board's approval statement below, please contact your board to determine the applicability and amount of cultural competency allowed.
PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This activity is approved for 3.5 credit hours.

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2029. Social workers completing this course receive 3.5 Cultural Competency continuing education credits.
Course Level: Intermediate Format: Synchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities offered by providers approved by the ASWB ACE program for ongoing professional development.
This activity qualifies for 210 continuing education minutes as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
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.
For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
Please note: There will be one 15-minute break mid-morning. Actual break start times are at the discretion of the speaker. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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