PLUS
PLUS is a space for us to create community as students, alums, and clinicians from ethnically underrepresented and historically excluded racialized groups. This space will be a meeting in which we, as a community, share resources for survival, hold each other through hard times and relate the work we do as MFTs to the healing practices people of color have used to thrive for generations. Additionally, the hope is that PLUS will build a bridge of the work MFT students of color have done at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) across cohorts, and remind us all that we are numerous and powerful.
~Dr. Montinique McEachern, LMFT
PLU Core Interim Faculty, Class of 2020-2021
MONTHLY MEETINGS
This group is for current MFT students and alumni of the program who identify as BIPOC.
Second Thursday of the month from 12:30pm – 1:30pm
To join or if you have questions, please email the program at mfth@plu.edu
PLUS Group Facilitator
Juancarlos Santisteban (he,him,el) is a first generation immigrant from Guatemala, and is a first generation college graduate. He has a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Pacific Lutheran University, and a Bachelors in Family Studies from Weber State University. Juancarlos is the Training Director and Clinical Supervisor for the Counseling and Psychological Services Center for Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Juancarlos is the co-chair of the DEI committee for the Student Access and Success Division and a member of the DEI Advisory Council for Weber State University. Juancarlos also is the owner of Here Beside YOU Therapy LLC.