I believe that collaborative learning is at the heart of healing. I aspire to demystify and democratize therapy and trauma informed social justice practices. On this page, I show some lineages that impact my practice. Join me in learning and growing into new ways of healing.
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I’m Not Broken, Don’t Fix Me: Disability Justice and Mental Health Care a webinar hosted by the Center for Practice Transformation at the University of Minnesota
This workshop explores mental health work in the context of justice movements around disability and inclusion. Beginning with a historical perspective, we trace the emergence of the Disability Rights movement, the social and medical models of disability, and the disability justice movement and how they impact/ed people’s experiences of mental illness, mental healthcare, and the changing role of providers in the healing landscape. Together, we will explore a disability justice-focused mental health intervention to resource practitioners with an expanded skill set around mapping resources and supports for individuals with complex mental health needs.
Podcasts
Irresistible Podcast (formerly known as Healing Justice Podcast)
Finding Our Way Podcast with Prentis Hemphill
Fortification: Spiritual Sustenance for Movement Leadership
Blogs and Websites
Susan Raffo is a bodyworker, cultural worker and writer who focuses her work through the lens of healing justice. Her work has deeply impacted my practice as a person, provider, writer, thinker, and human being.
Use Your Damn Skills is an irreverent and informative blog by Dr. Glenn Doyle.
Leaving Evidence is a critically important resource in teaching about transformational justice by Mia Mingus.
Transcending Jewish Trauma is Jo Kent Katz’s project to elucidate connections between inherited/ancestral trauma and cultural patterns to promote healing and political education.
Disability Justice Movement Organizations
Kindred: Southern Healing Justice Collective
BEAM: Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
SONG: Southerners On New Ground
Books
Meaning Making for this Moment:
We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne marie brown
Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom where Fear and Courage Meet by Joan Halifax
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Active Hope by Joana Macy
Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
Therapy/Psychology
Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation by Deb Dana
Narrative Therapy: The Social Construction of Preferred Realities by Jill Friedman and Gene Combs
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine
Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard Schwartz and Martha Sweezy
Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz
Complex PTSD from Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
Attachment in Psychotherapy by David Wallin
Disability Justice
Beautiful Imperfection: Grappling with Cure by Eli Clare
Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals by Aurora Levins Morales
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk PhD
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel
Recommended Trainings for Practitioners
AIR Network A Minnesota based paradigm shifting training about complex trauma and dissociative ability with Dr. Phyllis Solon LP, Dr. Dawn McClelland LP, and Patti Miller MA LP.
Evanston Family Therapy Center provides standalone, series, and yearly training in narrative therapy thought and practice.
Midwest Center for EMDR Training and Therapy provides comprehensive EMDR basic training with excellent consultants.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is an international movement integrating sensations, movements, and creative resources in body into trauma healing.