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Digital Seminar

Ritual in Therapy

Clinical Tools for Grief, Transition & Transformation

Speaker:
Rebeca Brau Martinez, MS, MFT, LP
Duration:
1 Hour
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Copyright:
Dec 04, 2025
Product Code:
POS150539
Media Type:
Digital Seminar

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Description

Ritual offers a language beyond words – one that helps clients hold grief, trauma, and identify shifts with depth and meaning. In therapy, ritual can create powerful moments of meaning-making, mark important transitions, and foster emotional integration in ways that feel deeply resonant. Drawing on her clinical experience as a marriage and family therapist, licensed psychoanalyst, and educator on ritual and healing, Rebecca Brau Martinez will show you how to integrate ritual into practice in ways that are culturally responsive, clinically ethical, and emotionally transformative.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Spot the key moments when ritual can move clients past stuck grief, trauma, or identify struggles
  • Use culturally responsive frameworks to reframe life’s tensions as sources of growth and meaning
  • Co-create rituals that honor spiritual and cultural traditions while supporting healing and transformation

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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant 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, and others.

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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 self-study activity is approved for 1.0 credit hours.


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Rebeca Brau Martinez, MS, MFT, LP's Profile

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Rebeca Brau Martinez, MS, MFT, LP
Rebeca Brau Martinez is a bilingual mental health professional, educator, and researcher whose work integrates therapy, spirituality, and social justice. A marriage and family therapist with advanced training in holistic wellness, she provides culturally affirming care to individuals and couples through the Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute in New York. She has developed and taught accredited continuing education courses for clinicians on therapeutic breathwork and meditation, facilitated psycho-spiritual practices at Sage and Sound, and presented nationally on topics including epistemic justice, psychospiritual liberation, and critiques of narcissistic abuse discourse.

Recognized with honors such as the Outstanding Systemic Practitioner of Community Engagement Award from Mercy University and fellowships with the Interdisciplinary Health Education Learning Program (IHELP) and the Emerging Leaders Social Justice Initiative of AFTA and Family Process Journal, Martinez is committed to advancing socially just and culturally responsive approaches to therapy. She also serves on the board of the American Family Therapy Academy and provides pro-bono therapy to immigrant communities in Brooklyn.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Rebeca Brau Martinez has employment relationships with Psychotherapy and Spirituality Institute and Epistemic Justice in Wellbeing. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Rebeca Brau Martinez is a member of the American Family therapy Academy, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and the National Latinx Psychological Association.


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Objectives

  1. Differentiate between routine and therapeutic ritual, identifying how symbolic processes function as anchors for transition, belonging, and identity.
  2. Analyze Indigenous spiritual wisdom for its implications in co-constructing therapeutic meaning.
  3. Apply culturally grounded and ethically informed strategies for designing and facilitating rituals that support grief, transition, ancestral reconnection, and identity reclamation in clinical practice.

Outline

Reframing Ritual: From Routine to Relational Practice

  • Introduction to ritual as a systemic and symbolic process
  • Distinguishing routine from therapeutic ritual
  • Rituals as anchors for transition, loss, belonging, and identity

Indigenous Spiritual Wisdom in Therapeutic Space

  • Overview of Ometeotl: Holding opposites as generative
  • Contrasting Chrisian moral dichotomies with Indigenous cosmologies of balance
  • Implications for constructing therapeutic meaning collaboratively
  • The Fariseos as sacred disruption; How Yaqui Holy Week rituals embody the integration of chaos, grief, and transformation through symbolic containment

Clinical Applications of Ritual and Spiritual Containment

  • Designing co-created rituals for grief, transition, estrangement, or identity reclamation
  • Facilitating ancestral reconnection and repair through culturally grounded strengths
  • Practice examples and dialogical questions for integrating ritual into sessions

Limitations, Risks, and Ethical Reflections

  • Cultural appropriation vs. cultural humility
  • Risks of spiritual imposition in clinical work
  • Honoring experiential knowledge
  • Creating safety in spiritual conversations: Client-led, collaborative, transparent

Target Audience

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

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