09/25/2024
Join me for the next Open Conversation on Decolonizing Therapy. This time around I will give a little more space for diving into material brought up by participants; to give a taste of what my consultation group can look like.
What is decolonizing therapy? Decolonizing therapy is many more things than I can address here, but in short here are my ideas. It is the understanding and dismantling of ways the field of psychology has been influenced by colonization and all the systems that uphold and go along with colonization ( racism, homophobia, classism, etc). It is the metabolizing of wounds and nervous system responses we have from oppression (whether our ancestors were oppressed or the oppressors, both were affected negatively by colonization).
All mental health practitioners are welcome in this conversation even if:
You aren’t sure if this topic applies to you (trust me, it applies to all beings on this planet at this time)
You feel embarrassed because you are interested but don’t feel you know enough about the topic to ask questions
Are just starting to understand what de-colonizing therapy means
You have been studying this for a long time and are in a group that has been systematically disenfranchised