Bridging Hearts and Histories: Transference and Countertransference in Latinx Healing

PRESENTER: Edith Segura Villalva, MSW, ACSW, School-Based Behavioral Health Therapist, Northern Valley Indian Health, Associate Clinical Social Worker, California 

This presentation explores how emotional exchanges between clinicians and clients, shaped by culture, migration, and collective trauma, can become powerful tools for connection, empathy, and advocacy. Within Latinx communities, transference and countertransference are not only psychological phenomena but reflections of familismo, respeto, spirituality, and the intergenerational narratives that define identity and

resilience. This workshop examines how these relational dynamics influence trust, belonging, and self- awareness in therapeutic spaces and offers practical strategies for transforming them into culturally grounded pathways for healing.

Uniendo Corazones e Historias: Transferencia y Contratransferencia en la Sanación Latinx

Esta presentación explora cómo los intercambios emocionales entre profesionales clínicos y pacientes, moldeados por la cultura, la migración y el trauma colectivo, pueden convertirse en poderosas herramientas para la conexión, la empatía y la defensa de sus derechos. Dentro…