Race Archives

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April 3, 2024 | Written by therapist.com team

Race and ethnicity are invented concepts, but they still affect how others treat you, how you experience the world, and how you feel about yourself.

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Identity Race Racial Trauma

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What is race-based traumatic stress (RBTS)?

April 1, 2024 | Written by therapist.com team

RBTS is a type of chronic stress stemming from racism and race-related discrimination. Explore common causes and symptoms, as well as treatment options.

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Race Stress Trauma

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Race and healing: Expanding the conversation

February 2, 2024 | Published by Psychotherapy Networker | Featuring S. Kent Butler, Lambers Fisher, Amber Flynn, Gail Parker, Monnica Williams, Deran Young, and Zachary Taylor

In two panel discussions, six clinicians of color have a frank conversation with a White therapist about addressing race in and out of the office.

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For Therapists Identity Psychotherapy Networker Race

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What does it mean to decolonize therapy?

February 2, 2024 | Written by Amye Archer, MFA | Featuring Shawna Murray-Browne, PhD, LCSW-C

A mental health movement is underway to center the historically excluded voices and healing practices of Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color.

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For Therapists Identity Race Racial Trauma

A young Black woman sits on a couch in a therapy office holding a tissue and looking downward while she thinks

Easing access to therapy for Black women and girls

January 22, 2024 | Written by Amye Archer, MFA | Featuring Sharlene Kemler

People of color are much less likely to receive mental health care. In response to this systemic failure, the Loveland Foundation is helping clear the way.

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Accessibility Identity Race

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Psychedelic therapy and racial trauma: Offering clients a deeper experience of healing

November 3, 2023 | Published by Psychotherapy Networker

Can psychedelic therapy offer a faster, deeper way to heal the intergenerational effects of racial injustice?

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African Americans Generational Trauma Psychedelics Psychotherapy Networker Race Racial Trauma Substances

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How to create positive change every day

September 13, 2023 | Written by Lillian Gibson, PhD

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for justice, peace, and freedom. You can honor his legacy by taking these simple but powerful actions in your daily life.

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African Americans Community Culture Holidays Identity Positivity Race Self-Development Society

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Podcast roundup: Transformative moments in Black history

August 24, 2023 | Written by therapist.com team

Racism still permeates our country, despite profound changes since June 19, 1865. These storytellers reflect on slices of the Black American experience.

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African Americans Identity Podcasts Race Racial Trauma

Total liberation: A Buddhist approach to healing

August 3, 2023 | Published by Psychotherapy Networker

Harm reduction. Symptom management. Lowering “subjective units of distress.” Many of us have trained for years to achieve identifiable goals such as these...

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Psychotherapy Networker Race Religion

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Unhealed bodies: Looking at ancestral trauma

August 1, 2023 | Published by Psychotherapy Networker

Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother’s Hands, discusses racialized trauma and a body-based path to healing.

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African Americans Generational Trauma Identity Psychotherapy Networker Race Racial Trauma

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