By Participating in the Course, you will Learn how to:

• Bear witness (testimonio) to the complex immigrant experience of trauma

• Identify the most common immigration cases 

• Perform an effective clinical interview and write a moving evaluation

• Integrate tests/measures and use diagnoses that are most relevant to immigration cases

• Support immigrant trauma survivors post-interview 

• Navigate immigration proceedings and testimony

• Consider the complex ethics of providing this service

• Protect and heal yourself from secondary and vicarious trauma

• Grow your practice ethically, by developing a new and sustainable revenue source, which includes both pro-bono and paid services

What Support will you Receive?

• Guidance from an experienced clinician who has highly specialized technical knowledge after conducting hundreds of pro-bono and paid evaluations, trained dozens of clinicians, and has built a solid and expansive network of attorneys 

• Business coaching and support around marketing your services, networking with attorneys, building an abundant referral source and setting accessible rates rooted in equity

• 90 minute Integration Seminar and Q&A session

• Opportunities for shadowing and supporting an evaluation write-up

• A follow-up group consultation session 3 months after the completion of the course (optional)

• Exclusive directory listing in instructor’s personal and extensive referral network built over 8+ years.

This course exceeded my expectations. Not only was the presenter knowledgeable and provided relevant education, they also provided materials, opportunities for real life practice, follow-up, and fostered a learning community in which one can continue to consult with and be supported by while doing this work.

Carolina P. P.

What Tools will you be Given?

• Everything you need to start conducting powerful evaluations today

• An in-depth handbook that includes personal reflections and knowledge gathered from the many years of providing this service. The handbook will save you significant time, energy, and trial and error by providing you:

• Identification of the most common type of evaluations

• Best practice outlines for the clinical interview

• Tips on visiting detention centers

• Guidance on testimony and navigating immigration proceedings

• And much more… 

• An evaluation template

• An interview questions checklist 

• Sample evaluations

• Informational Handouts for both clinicians and clients

• Access to relevant peer reviewed journal articles to further your praxis

• 11.5 CEUs including 2 Ethics CEUs sponsored by the Washington State Society of Clinical Social Work 

• Note that in order to receive the Certificate of Completion and CEUS you will need to attend and participate in the entire course (Two 5-hour days and 1.5 hour Integration Seminar) and complete the course evaluation. No partial credit will be given.  

• A Certificate of Completion that can be used to support your marketing and practice building

What is the Value?

Do not miss out on supporting a vulnerable population, learning a valuable clinical skill, providing a crucial service, and building an abundant revenue stream with the help and support of a passionate clinician and educator.

Clinicians charge on average $1000 - $3000 per evaluation. You can choose to provide pro-bono services and/or get returns on your investment immediately after completing this foundational course. 

What is your Investment?

By signing up for this course, you are accessing my authentic lived experience as a first generation eldest daughter of asylum seekers as well as my relevant undergraduate and graduate school education, post-studies supervision, and the eight plus years of the development of my expertise in offering this service as well as the creation of my networks.

This course will provide you with the support to navigate imposter syndrome, skip over the pitfalls, isolation and the burnout that often accompanies this work. Plus, you will have my mentorship to navigate how to provide this service equitably in order to build an abundant practice rooted in justice. 

The cost for the foundational course includes; guidance and mentorship of an expert clinician and private practice business coach and the technical materials you need to start conducting evaluations, including a guidebook, templates, guided interview questions, sample evaluations, handouts, and peer reviewed journal articles. Included in this cost is an Integration Seminar, an optional post-course group consultation, exclusive listing in personal referral network, and 11.5 CEUS including 2 Ethics CEUS

This course is valued at $3499

and being offered at a sliding scale rate of

$2499 - Sustaining Rate:

Please consider whether you are a member of a historically and currently marginalized group and also review the Green Bottle Sliding Scale description prior to selecting this option. https://www.wortsandcunning.com/blog/sliding-scale

$3000 - Supporting Rate:

Choose this option if you are able to fully fund a minority female owned small business and Support their radical social justice and healing work at market rate.  

What is the Refunds Policy?

Note that due to the nature of this programming, all sales are final and there will be no-refunds. If a time conflict or emergency arises, your payment will not be refunded but you will have the option of signing up for the next scheduled course date (TBD).   

Who Am I? 

As a first generation daughter of immigrants, immigration justice has always been central to my clinical activism. Through my personal and professional experiences, I have seen first hand the struggles that immigrants face in trying to adjust their status in the US and the ripple effect that this experience has on their loved ones. 

After fleeing war-torn Nicaragua in the 1980’s, my mother and father entered the United States and applied for asylum. Their case was denied for lack of evidence. An evaluation would have saved my mother over 13 years of the psychological distress and the financial turbulence of being undocumented. It would have saved my father from detention, deportation, and us, his children, from family separation and the painful and traumatic repercussions that came from it. 

I know from a personal and professional lens, the ramifications of a denied immigration case - the emotional, psychological, physical and financial impact on the immigrant, their spouses and their children. I do this work so that other individuals, families, and children of immigrants have a fighting chance and do not have to go through what my family experienced.

Why Learn From Me?

I am a clinical activist, trainer, passionate educator, and empowered entrepreneur. I have a successful private practice in which I provide mental health therapy, immigration evaluations, as well as consultation and presentations on trauma, healing, race, and oppression.   

For over eight years, I have conducted and written over 500+ highly effective immigration evaluations for immigrants from all over the world. My trauma informed and healing centered interviews have been done in person at my office in Seattle, WA, at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, and virtually. I have had highly positive results and have a significant success rate. 

I have also testified in immigration court, provided psycho-education on mental health and its diverse manifestation, diagnosis, and coping to attorneys and judges in order to make immigration court more competent in understanding and supporting trauma survivors.

I have also successfully developed strong relationships and referral networks with immigration attorneys whose values and ethics are in alignment with mine.  

I have mobilized, trained, supervised and supported many mental health clinicians in learning how to conduct evaluation interviews, write clear, concise and moving reports with the goal of supporting immigrants navigating an unjust and broken immigration system.