Embodied Spiritual Assessment

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Fatima Mirza, PhD, LCSW Related seminars and products

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Fatima Mirza, PhD, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and educator whose work bridges psychology, spirituality, and social justice. She has extensive experience supporting adult survivors of relational, religious, sexual, social, and racial trauma. She specializes in culturally and spiritually sensitive care, particularly for spiritual leaders and community caregivers navigating their own well-being. Dr. Mirza integrates movement, mindfulness, journaling, IFS, and CBT into her collaborative approach. She has published widely on Muslim youth, clergy well-being, and the intersection of spirituality and psychotherapy, including recent work in Psychotherapy Networker.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Fatima Mirza is the founder of Sunflower Wellness Initiative and has an employment relationship with Wellness Through Counseling and Mirza Family Foundation. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Fatima Mirza is a contributing author with Psychotherapy Networker.

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Objectives

After the presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Use an intersectional lens to explore the role of faith, values, and worldview in clients’ lives.
2. Approach spiritual assessments as an unfolding dialogue, not a checklist.
3. Recognize common therapist “traps” in spiritual conversations – and how to avoid them.
4. Practice a stance of cultural humility and openness when working with diverse belief systems.
5. Integrate values and meaning-making into goal-setting and treatment planning.

Outline

Background & Introduction

• This section will offer definitions of a few terms and locate this presentation within the larger field of Spirituality Integrated Practice

Beginning with people

• How spirituality is already in the room
• Setting up some broad categories so that we can refer back to them (Believers in a tradition/mix of traditions; Believers in “something beyond” but without a tradition; Followers of a personal worldview/moral code
• Assessment – this section refers to spiritual assessment tools that are out there briefly before focusing on a more relational, intersectional frame that centers the client’s worldview

Therapist stance

• This section dives into the self of the therapist and will help participants explore their own worldview using select concepts in the previous section. This will expand therapist clarity about what they are bringing into their sessions, draw out the role of cultural humility, and identify areas for further growth

Goal setting/Treatment planning

• Inclusive of spirituality and meaning (brief)

“Traps”

• This section will describe situations in which there is a mismatch or a match between client’s worldview and the therapist’s worldview. It will then draw out where mismatches and mismatches can have potential for transference/countertransference, blurring of boundaries, and slipping out of a client-led process

Question/Answer/Discussion

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Mental Health Professionals