Dr. Peter Oppenheimer has been the Director of Professional Affairs for the Rhode Island Psychological Association since 2018. He has led RIPA’s legislative and policy advocacy since 1998. He has served two terms as the association’s President and two terms as their Council Representative. At APA, Dr. Oppenheimer is a Past President of Division 42. He served on the Committee for the Advancement of Professional Practice and as Division 31’s Council Representative. He is a fellow of Divisions 31 and 42; and a member of the Massachusetts Psychological Association, and Divisions 55 and 56.

Dr. Oppenheimer served as a member of the BPA/BEA Task Force on Master’s Title and Scope of Practice, and as a member of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Board’s Potential Regulatory Implications of Master’s Licensure Task Force. He currently serves as a liaison to APA’s Model Licensing Act Task Force.

Dr. Oppenheimer has served on the Rhode Island Board of Psychology since 2004 and as Chair since 2005. He is Rhode Island’s Commissioner and State Administrator for the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT).

Dr. Oppenheimer has been in independent practice since 1987. He is the owner of a group practice in Barrington that he founded in 1994. He focuses his clinical practice on children and families. Dr. Oppenheimer has been a leader in community efforts to develop collaborative relationships between behavioral health practices and primary care physicians, and to enhance the role of psychologists in integrated care settings.

Program Description

Since 2016 APA has been seeking to transform professional psychology into a “two-tiered” profession by endorsing educating and licensing people with master’s degrees in health service psychology. APA is now revising the Model License Act seeking to include a section for master’s practice. Dr. Oppenheimer will discuss the status of the master’s profession in psychology and APA’s efforts to create a “two-tiered” profession. He will also discuss how the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards is addressing master’s level licensing, and he will discuss the implications of this proposed change for professional psychology and the APA.

White Racial Identity in Clinical Practice

Friday, April 4, 2025
12:00 to 3:00 pm (CST)

Online Webinar: A link will be sent to all registrants

Sponsored by: Illinois Psychological Association
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee
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3 Hours of Continuing Education Credit

Dr. Janet E. Helms is co-founder of Psychologists for Racial Justice (psych4rj@gmail.com); Professor Emeritus, Boston College; and a licensed psychologist. She is Past President of the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17 of the American Psychological Association). Dr. Helms is the sixteenth most influential psychologist in the country based on her scholarship on race, racism and the other “isms” or conditions of societal oppression, according to an AI ranking. She is the author of the McGuffey Longevity Award winning book, “A Race Is A Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life.”

Dr. Anmol Satiani is a co-founder of Psychologists for Racial Justice (psych4rj@gmail.com) with Dr. Helms. She is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Illinois who is serving as the Training Director, Clinical Supervisor, and Staff Psychologist at Center Focused Therapy, a group psychotherapy practice in Chicago, Illinois. Her presentations, consultation work, teaching, and scholarship have centered around race, culture, clinical supervision, and training. Given her passion for clinical training, she has been actively involved in the Association for Chicagoland Externship and Practicum Training (ACEPT) for over 10 years, including serving as President and founding and chairing the ACEPT Student Financial Concerns Committee. Dr. Satiani completed the APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology (LIWP) signature program in 2023. She earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Boston College.

Program Description

The general focus of this interactive, three-hour workshop is helping clinicians to recognize the racial dynamics of therapy. Most mental health service providers are White professionals whose competence in managing racial dynamics has been shaped by their own White racial socialization and clinical training in which there was virtually no attention to racism per se. Consequently, when racism becomes salient in interactions with clients, the provider in charge has no guidance as to how to provide effective interventions or to recognize ineffective ones. Since practitioners rarely receive training in the power dynamics of race and racism as they pertain to therapy, they may not be aware of how they express their racial identities in their interventions or how clients express their racial identities in clinical practice. (see brochure for full program description)