Adriana Rodriguez, LMFT, left #ModernTherapists with this quote from Audre Lorde to remind therapists to keep decolonizing therapy to meet the needs of our clients. Watch the rest of “The Magic of Therapeutic Mistakes” #TherapyReimagined panel now! #DecolonizeTherapy #TR2020

Therapists! Don't miss this wonderful on-demand #ceu presentation on #decolonizing our #psychotherapy practices by Travis Heath Beyond Multicultural Counseling: Psychotherapy on the Margins simplepracticelearning.com/courses/beyond…

The "who does more" for the family/relationship argument. ⁠ ⁠ ✨The "Why".⁠ ⁠ If you're keeping what we call “ledgers” as a way to tally up who is doing more around the house or in your relationship, this might be an argument you are familiar with.⁠ ⁠ (thread)

The drive to conduct antiracist research has never been stronger. So, I and my colleagues are proud to share some of our 10 guiding principles for your antiracist research, drawn from our recent article in JSSWR Info 🧵 1/7

Our article “A clinical scale for the assessment of racial trauma.” was the top-downloaded AND most accessed journal article published in 2022 in Practice Innovations!! A huge thank you to everyone involved. psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi… APA Journals @drmonnica #racialtrauma

Blog: "Neglect isn’t always overwhelmingly obvious. It’s not always ignoring-to-the-point-of-near-death (though it certainly can be— and that kind of thing happens more than many people would possibly believe)." useyourdamnskills.com/2022/06/06/rea…

Co-regulation is most successful when each person has developed their individual emotional states. BOTH people must be healed enough. If one person is constantly triggered bcuz they haven’t healed from prior relationships, they will project onto partner. #WITSI #TillTraumaEnds

Hi All, We acknowledge the importance of advancing Black Mental Health research in order to fill the gap that exists. Kindly consider getting involved in this Research study exploring the impact of racial microaggressions on Adult psychotherapy clients scsu.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6y…

Psychotherapy cannot undo the past. If we've been abused, neglected or otherwise mistreated, that's part of our lived experience that cannot be un-lived However, psychotherapy can help us put the past in the past so we don't have to keep reliving it

Therapy is not where someone tells us how to put out the latest fire in our life. Therapy is where we find a person (the therapist) who works through the firehouse with us to ensure all the equipment works well so we can put out our own fires.

"The goals in therapy are a collaborative effort in which therapist & patient together identify what is distressing to the patient, what the patient would like to change, & what is realistically possible to change in the course of psychotherapy" —Glen Gabbard Sound familiar?👇

With increased racist hate and bigotry through Islamophobia & antisemitism, please be mindful and aware of the potential for race-based traumatic stress and racial battle fatigue. Race-based traumatic stress might ential, but is by no means limited to the following:

Friendly reminder: If you feel that the genocide & ethnic cleansing of Palestine/Palestinian people is complex or nuanced, it may be time to open up a book or two to resolve that tension. There is a fairly straightforward history & pattern that has led up to current events.

Yes, it's normal to not want to show up for your therapy sessions but show up anyways. Talk about it with your therapist.

psychotherapy, in a nutshell...

The contributions of Black psychologists have been left out of many foundational teachings in psychology. A special issue of APA Journals' American Psychologist aims to rectify these oversights by highlighting the significant work of Black scholars. apa.org/news/press/rel…

Not every therapy session ends with a solution. Sometimes it ends in reflection. Sometimes it ends with tears. Sometimes it ends the realization that more work has to be done.