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Caleb Stephens    

Intersectional Clinician, Trainer & Founder of IdentiFight LLC

Dr. Caleb Stephens, LMSW LMAC, is a passionate and dedicated social worker who has dedicated his career to serving individuals and communities in need. He is a dually licensed LMSW (Licensed Master Social Worker) and a LMAC (Licensed Master Addiction Counselor), and has extensive experience working in child welfare, addictions, schools, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, with incarcerated individuals, and as a community organizer and activist.

Dr. Stephens is particularly interested in the Black narrative, safety, hope, empowerment, intentionality, and authenticity. He is a student of Kimberlé Crenshaw's Intersectionality, which he applies in all aspects of his work. Dr. Stephens believes in meeting people where they are and empowering their voices, as well as creating authentic and informed identities and truths. He takes a multi-faceted approach to education and learning, recognizing that people have different learning styles, processing capabilities, and preferences. He believes in having tough conversations with tenderness and intentionality, and in providing people with the resources and tools they need to succeed.

Dr. Stephens earned his Bachelor of Social Work degree from Bethel College, Kansas in 2011, his Masters of Social Welfare degree from the University of Kansas in 2014, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Kansas in Performance Studies in 2021. Dr. Stephens' teaching philosophy centers around creating a naturally therapeutic environment where people can feel rooted and grounded, and do the work necessary to live their best lives.

Speech Topics


Anti-Racism: Exploration& Implementation In Practice

This presentation walks through the realities of racism, specifically anti-Black racism, and how these things impact our every day work and lives as people providing service provision.

Love, Differently

This presentation navigates through the complexities of love as it relates to race, patriarchy, masculinity, and truth.

Creating A Culture of Community: Blackness, Vulnerability, and Mental Health

This presentation delves into the intricate realities of Blackness and how mental health and vulnerability are both the hinderance and the key to creating intersectional communities of wellness and power.

Eat, Protest, Lift: Cultivating and Performing Positive Black Self-Imagery in Resistance to White Supremacy

In this presentation, I show the documentary I created and talk through three realms: The creation of Black Brunch and its impact, Black Lives Matter and activism, and the realm of competitive powerlifting. I all of these venues, I discuss the impact of creating the space, and how Black bodies are allowed or disallowed to take up space, and how my work subverts that expectation.

Therapy Seems Scary

This presentation utilizes honesty, humor, and vulnerability to help people to see the way therapy is supposed to work, questions you can ask, how to choose a therapist, and how to know you have the right fit.

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