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Applied Clinical Strategies

For Counseling Black Women Experiencing Workplace and Race-Based Trauma

Cover of Applied Clinical Strategies by Dr. Guan Q. Ellerbe
The book

Your client is not being difficult. Your framework is incomplete.

Most trauma training was not built for a client whose primary stressor is her job, whose symptoms present as high performance, and who has learned that naming what happened will cost her more than enduring it.

This is the clinical companion to More Than Strong — a practitioner's manual for assessment, conceptualization, and treatment of workplace and race-based trauma in Black women. It is direct about what standard protocols miss and specific about what to do instead.

Inside

  • Assessment tools that surface race-based and occupational trauma
  • Case conceptualization that holds identity, environment, and physiology together
  • Working with clients who intellectualize, minimize, or manage the session
  • Treatment sequencing when the stressor is ongoing and cannot be removed
  • Countertransference, clinician identity, and supervision considerations

Paperback$42.99

Go deeper · The companion course

Structured clinical training, taught by a clinical supervisor.

The training program built from the manual — for therapists, counselors, social workers, and supervisors who want the frameworks demonstrated rather than described. Includes annotated case examples and the assessment instruments in usable form.

Who it's for: Therapists, counselors, social workers, clinical supervisors, and graduate students in clinical training.

Course

Applied Clinical Strategies — Clinical Training Course

  • Self-paced video modules
  • Assessment instruments and intake language
  • Case conceptualization walkthroughs
  • Treatment planning templates
  • Certificate of completion

Self-paced enrollment$249.00

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Take the book and the course together

Read the framework, then apply it while it is still fresh. Add both to your cart in the shop — $291.99 for the complete pair.

Buying for more than one person? Team and organization licensing · Curated bundles

Dr. Gee on the ideas behind this work.

Bring it live

This is also a keynote and a workshop.

Every title in the library can be delivered to your organization as a mainstage keynote, a half-day workshop, or a multi-week leadership cohort — customized to your industry and your data.

Courses and programs sold through Leading Light Beyond are educational products. They are not therapy, mental health treatment, clinical supervision, or case consultation, and purchase does not create a clinical, supervisory, or therapeutic relationship. If you are working through significant trauma, anxiety, or depression, please also work with a licensed mental health professional. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. For confidential support in the US, call or text 988.