A Hero's Welcome Podcast
A Hero’s Welcome Podcast
Hosted by Maria Laquerre Diego, and Liliana Baylon, both LMFT-S and RPT-S
A Hero’s Welcome is a podcast for mental health professionals committed to culturally responsive care. Each episode features in-depth conversations with clinicians, supervisors, and consultants who bring diverse perspectives to the forefront.
We discuss mental health topics including psychotherapy models, clinical interventions, trauma-informed practices, and the role of cultural humility in therapeutic work. Our guests share their experiences serving children, families, and communities impacted by systemic stressors, offering insights and practical tools for fellow practitioners.
Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding of culturally competent care or seeking a community that values diversity and inclusion, A Hero’s Welcome offers a space for reflection, learning, and growth.
Hosts:
Maria Laquerre-Diego
maria@anewhopetc.org
Liliana Baylon
liliana@lilianabaylon.com
A Hero's Welcome Podcast
SITH Conference 2025: Join us for a deep dive into Beyond Borders & Supervising with Caution with Liliana Baylon
Liliana joins us to preview her two upcoming workshops at the SITH conference in Las Cruces this October, focusing on cultural humility in mental health and ethical supervision practices. Her unique approach combines her experience as a migrant, her passion for ethics, and her training across multiple supervision models to offer fresh perspectives that go beyond stereotypical checklists.
• Liliana will present two workshops: "Beyond Borders: Culturally Responsive & Ethical Care in Play Therapy and Mental Health" and "Supervising with Caution: Legal Pitfalls and Protections in Play Therapy"
• Unlike typical trainings that focus on stereotypes and checklists, Liliana brings dialogue, unique language, and lived experience to cultural humility
• As an MFT supervisor trained in multiple models, she approaches supervision through diverse lenses rather than a single framework
• Ethics serve as Liliana's self-care - she literally reads codes of ethics for fun and actively participates in revising them
• Both cultural competence and ethics require continuous learning as they constantly evolve
• Having ethical guidelines helps clinicians manage anxiety when facing challenging cases
• The SITH conference is filling up quickly - registration information is available in the show notes
Register for the SITH conference today to experience these workshops and connect with Liliana and other mental health professionals in Las Cruces this October.
https://www.anewhopeacademy.org/sith25
A Hero's Welcome Podcast © Maria Laquerre-Diego & Liliana Baylon
Do you have yours Welcome back listeners to a very special episode of a Heroes Welcome podcast. We are continuing our little series on talking about the SIP conference happening in Las Cruces, hosted by yours truly this October, and, liliana, you have said yes not to just one but two workshops for this conference.
Speaker 2:As a high overachiever. I'm thinking why, but then too late, because I already submitted both of them. And here we go, people, You're going to see me twice. That's right, you're welcome, thank you. So I am going to be hosting two presenting on two sessions. One will be beyond borders, so obviously I'm going to be talking about what to cook for Thanksgiving Now he's kidding. I'm going to be talking about culturally and ethically responding in our field of mental health, but also I'm going to be talking about supervision. So if you've been following me, you know that Maddie and I do talk a lot about supervision and ethics. So my session will be supervising with caution, since we're focusing on core cases. I'm going to be talking about all the scary things that could happen in our field as therapists and the things that we have to be paying attention to as supervisors.
Speaker 1:I just realized we're just going to be celebrating spooky season a little bit early with all the scaries.
Speaker 2:That's it. We're prepping you for Halloween. You are welcome.
Speaker 1:That's right, that's right. So anyone who's listened or knows you, like we, you can be kind of seen as, like I know, you're my go to person for things like culturally based and supervision based. With your experience, what might be something that they're going to learn from you? If they haven't yet met you or sat in any of your sessions before, what could they look forward to?
Speaker 2:I was going to say like that, I'm insane and I'm not rude. Yes, yes, no, I truly care about ethics. As a type A Virgo introvert person, my self-care is actually reading person, my self-care is actually reading. And in regards to mental health, since I joined in and this is my second career it has always been how can I do this ethically and what does that mean, especially as a migrant, having a different lens, that I see everything that I do. So from the first session that I'm talking about cultural humility, the invitation, and something that you may not know is the language that I use, because when we go to other trainings, we tend to focus a lot on stereotypes. We tend to focus a lot of.
Speaker 2:These are the things that you're not do almost in a checklist, and then, when you come to my sessions, it's like so what am I supposed to do? Because I have no checklist, and part of it is because of the language, the dialogue and the life experience that I bring in into those sessions. And then, as a supervisor, I think we've been discussing with other colleagues. As an MFT and Maria joins me in this our journey to become supervisors is lengthy, to say the least. To say the least, and as a supervisor in different models, not just in plate therapy, I tend to go to classes of supervision. So therefore, I get to experience supervision through different lenses and that gives me a unique approach, because it's not black and white, it's not. This is how we do it in plate therapy only. This is not how we do it through licensure only, it's like I don't know, let's figure this shit together. So it's just different the way that I see supervision, but all of those through a cultural and ethical lens.
Speaker 1:I love that and fun fact I'm going to share about you that you don't know. I'm going to say this out loud Liliana reads codes of ethics for fun and that's not, ironically like legitimately for fun and that's not I, not ironically, like legitimately for fun I.
Speaker 2:It's funny because when people become that aware about that folder in my computer and how, like hold on, let me check um, and people go like wait, you read? I was like yes, you know how excited it is as an mft, our code of ethics is being revised. When I got the the email to say did you want to complete this survey and give us feedback on the revision of ethics, I was like yes, please Did you?
Speaker 1:just upload an updated version of the code of ethics that you would like to see.
Speaker 2:I downloaded it. I read it. Let me give you feedback on the language change. That was like my jam that weekend. So yeah, actually I do read that, for maybe I need something fun to do, but that's my fun thing that is your fun thing.
Speaker 1:That is your fun, which I think is why it gives you such authority to talk about it, because you're not prescribing to just one code of ethics. You really do research and look at all codes of ethics. You live and breathe the codes of ethics, and I think that it's formidable for you to do that and then turn around and translate it to the rest of us who don't read those for funsies, so that we can be well-informed and feel supported and feel grounded in what we're practicing. And both of those right Culture and ethics are those two pieces of our practice that are constantly evolving and changing and that we need to stay up to date. But we also need to feel really safe in doing those things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and knowing right, like the knowing part, that helps our anxiety when we have those ethical cases which we go into panic of what do I do? Versus like, hold on, I have a guide of what to do and then we can move to other stuff. So, yeah, I think they're very helpful.
Speaker 1:I love that and I'm I mean, I am, I'm blessed because I get a lot of access to you. But I'm very excited for you to come to Las Cruces and for everyone here to get to hang out with you for a couple of days. So you know side notes if you're coming. Liliana enjoys tacos. Coffee is a love language for her.
Speaker 2:Coffee. I need coffee before I talk to you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're so excited that you're coming. I mean, I get to geek out and like hang out with you and some of the some of my favorite people for a couple of days, but it's, it's really kind of a gift I think that I get to give my community having you come. So if you have not registered, please do so. We are starting to fill up, which is really exciting. We'll have the information below. If you're unsure, come check out the link. I challenge you to find a reason why not to come. Thank you.
Speaker 2:Yes, excuse me, we're prepping you. We stayed in. We're prepping you for Halloween, you're welcome.
Speaker 1:So come and talk about the scaries with us. Yes, we'll have tacos.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me Until next time.
Speaker 1:Until next time. Thanks,
