WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

By the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the effects of trauma and discrimination on the mental health of Native American youth

  • Describe the challenges faced by Native American youth

  • List the suggestions for mental health care providers in treating Native American youth

  • List the differences between what the Western-Euro tribes and the Native Americans value

  • Describe how the Sacred Mandala is linked to the human brain Describe the four major passages into darkness

  • Demonstrate an understanding of Indigenous and Native American peoples

  • Describe values and identity. Explain the environmental ethics and relationships between nature and humans

  • Describe the history and culture both past and present of Native American peoples

  • Explain the meanings of mental illnesses versus mental health and their significance in Indigenous and Native American culture

  • Explain if/when to incorporate healing practices into a counseling session

Instructor

Educational Director & CEO at InMindOut

Dr. Heather Ingram

Dr. Heather Ingram, originally from Chicago, obtained her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Argosy University in Schaumburg, Illinois. At Argosy, Dr. Ingram obtained a specialization in child and family interventions. Throughout her training, Dr. Ingram worked in a variety of settings around Chicago including Elgin Mental Health Center on the Unfit to Stand Trial Unit, Bridge View-Challenger Therapeutic Day School, Women In Need Growing Stronger domestic violence shelter, and Gateway Foundation residential substance abuse treatment center. During her work in Boston, Dr. Ingram worked at Walden Behavioral Care eating disorder clinic, where she worked in inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient levels of care. Dr. Ingram has training and experience working with a range of mental health concerns including eating disorders, trauma, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, substance abuse, and domestic violence. In 2013, Dr. Ingram moved to Texas to continue working with clients affected by mental illness and their families by founding InMindOut Emotional Wellness Center. In 2017, Dr. Ingram founded Orion Mental Health Services, Inc., a nonprofit organization designed to offer reduced cost neurofeedback services to clients in need. Currently, Dr. Ingram is a psychologist and biofeedback practitioner at InMindOut and adjunct professor at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. She is also board certified in Biofeedback and teaches a Biofeedback certification course annually in Chicago and Texas. She is the Educational Director of the InMindOut biofeedback, neurofeedback, and qEEG board approved certificate courses.