Melissa Shepherd-Williams

Adjunct Faculty @Pacific Oaks College

Serve as instructor in the Cultural Family Therapy program. Collaborated in the creation of course content focused on Historical Trauma and Recovery in the Latinx Family Studies Specialization. Work within the Trauma specialization, Latinx Family and African-American Family Studies Cohorts. Courses taught within the Cultural Family Therapy program are: Theories of Marriage and Family Therapy, Communication and Counseling Skills, Interface of Society and Human Development, Complex Trauma, Historical Trauma and Recovery, Cross-cultural Mores and Values, Latinx Family Systems, Culture, Attachment, and Trauma, Clinical Skills in Group and Family Therapy, and Immigration Trauma.In support of cohort reflections about depression in the African diaspora, participated in coordinating a campus screening and Q&a with the producers of the film \"The Rhythm of Blue\". Within the film, served as an interviewee, along with the former Vice President of Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer at Pacific Oaks College, Dr. Bree Cook.