Why is a trauma-informed and culturally responsive approach to training, supervision, and therapy important?

Whether you want to obtain Continuing Education for your professional licensure, you are interested in services at the organizational/agency level, or you are looking for individual therapy, culturally responsive services provide tools for increasing and improving awareness, knowledge, and communication to address inequities and eliminate barriers disproportionately experienced by historically oppressed groups. By examining our own histories, beliefs, and their roots, we can reflect more effectively and openly across these barriers and create a positive and more equitable practice at the personal, organizational, and societal levels.

Diversity training children

Why Luminosa?

Dr. Gil-Kashiwabara founded Luminosa Psychological Services with the goal of providing excellent training, consultation and supervision related to culturally responsive care and addressing access issues for providers, teachers, agencies, schools and organizations. She brings a trauma-informed lens to this work, which includes an extensive understanding of historical, intergenerational and racial trauma. Dr. Gil-Kashiwabara has compassion for the humanity that each person carries in their personal narrative and brings this sensitivity to her work. The result is an authentic and open approach toward examining how our individual and collective stories have shaped our beliefs and behaviors around culture and how we might envision growth and expansion for ourselves and our communities.

Dr. Gil-Kashiwabara also provides Multicultural Therapy for adolescents and adults, an approach that recognizes and addresses issues rooted in oppression, racism, and discrimination so that those from historically marginalized backgrounds can benefit from a culturally-oriented therapeutic process.

Services


• Keynote and Public Speaking
• Seminars, Workshops and Trainings
• Consultation
• Cross-cultural supervision for mental health providers
• Multicultural Therapy (including a focus on intersectional identities and mixed race/ethnicity)

All services can be executed as virtual

Eleanor Gil-Kashiwabara, PsyD

Licensed Psychologist

Dr. Gil-Kashiwabara (she/her/hers/ella) is a Licensed Psychologist whose training and professional experience has focused on children and families experiencing a variety of issues including, but not limited to trauma (including intergenerational trauma and historical loss), early-childhood attachment disruptions and maltreatment, neurodevelopmental disorders and mood disorders.

“Dr. Gil-Kashiwabara connected with each and every scholar. Her vulnerability, strength, and courage gave our scholars hope. She embodies such compassion and love in her work.”

-Andrea N. Smith-Morgan
CEO/Founder of Mindful Awareness Academy for Children
Nonprofit Organization