Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizin…

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