She gives the example of microaggressions in the workplace, or job interviews. "I think the best way to describe decolonized therapy is that it is really making space to examine the external pressures, stressors, and layers of oppression that my clients have endured and survived," Teng says. Jennifer Mullan, who refer to this work as "decolonizing therapy," a process of addressing the structural racism and other forms of oppression that keep therapy from serving many marginalized communities. Teng was initially inspired by people like Dr. Embracing a practice of 'decolonizing therapy' For her, that meant joining a growing movement of other counselors hoping to transform the practice of therapy, to make it more accessible and relevant to people of color and - ultimately - to help them find healing. That's why Teng wanted to take a new approach. 80% of psychologists, 63% of counselors and 59% of social workers are white, according to Data USA, a website that constructs visualizations of public federal data.Īsia Verdict On Khmer Rouge Leaders Is First To Officially Acknowledge Regime's Genocide Therapy is a predominantly white field in the U.S. Teng's graduate program isn't the only one like this. "I just felt silenced in my own history my own experience in the work that I was doing." "I didn't feel represented, and I felt that so much of my family's history just didn't feel like it was considered," she says, adding that she was studying under teachers who were predominantly white. She began to notice how dealing with certain issues, including race and immigration, were not given priority in her clinical training - even though she knew how important they are in shaping a life. Healing Your Relationship with Your Parents with Ivy KwongIt was this realization that compelled Teng to become a therapist in 2018 she began her graduate studies in Seattle.īut when COVID-19 hit and the Black Lives Matter movement came into full force, with communities of color having a more public conversation about their struggles in the U.S., Teng says she started feeling differently about her training and the profession she'd be entering.My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem.Check out the Religious Trauma Healing workbook here.Ĭonnect with Ivy on her website and on Instagram. Inner child healing including for people who don’t have a lot of childhood memoriesīlog for this episode: Download a free 8-minute breathwork meditation here and download a free healing meditation for ex-religious folks here.Healing intergenerational trauma, ancestral trauma.Expressing our anger as people socialized as women.How to know when something old is showing up and asking to be seen.Self-abandonment through people pleasing. Reconnecting with the wisdom of our emotions.Healing being hurt in relationship through relationships.In this episode, Eryn and Ivy talk about: She is an advocate for decolonizing mental health and has 16+ years of experience offering social justice-minded therapy and coaching. Ivy Kwong, LMFT is a writer, speaker, and licensed psychotherapist specializing in Asian American mental health, healing codependency, and healing ancestral and intergenerational trauma.
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