Full Description
This powerful testimony to the growing
confidence and reach of Black women's therapy in the UK today brings together
leading theorists and practitioners to present their radical thinking and innovative
work at the cutting edge of intersectionality. Its chapters are hard-hitting,
incisive, challenging, shocking, lyrical and inspiring, often all at once. They
cover a vast spectrum of issues impacting on Black women's mental health and
wellbeing amid the ubiquity of racial and gender injustice, attacks and invisibility.
Here you will find essays on childlessness and infertility, the black empathic
approach, maternal health and epistemic justice, group work with Black women,
self-care in an unjust society, mixed-race multiplicity, African-centred
approaches, healing transgenerational trauma, a black feminist ethics of care, and
much more. The contributors describe how they have remodelled, evolved and enriched
the tenets of counselling and psychotherapy orthodoxy to better meet their
clients' emotional, cultural, social and political needs. Inspired by the 2022
Community Trauma UK conference 'Black Women, Trauma and Mental Health', this
book is a revolutionary resource for the counselling, psychotherapy and mental
health professions.
Contents
Foreword by Yetunde Ade-Serrano
Introduction by Helen P. George
1. The un-silencing of black women: A black empathic approach by Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga
2. Lively up we self: A portal, some letters and a black feminist chorus by Gail Lewis and Foluke Taylor
3. How we are made 'mixed-race': Multiplicity of mind, multiplicity of experience by Janice Acquah
4. The intersectional invisibility of black women and infertility by Helen P. George
5. What gets pushed into us we push down together: Group work with black women re-writing HER story by Anthea Benjamin
6. African-centred therapy: Towards a womanist psychospiritual approach to healing by Rameri Moukam
7. Sharing breath: The personal narrative in black women's healing by Dawn Estefan
8. Ancestral constellations: Healing the tears and fears of our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers by Sonya Welch-Moring
9. Birthing trauma, epistemic injustice, and (un)-seeking help: Black women and maternal healthcare in the UK by Dawn Edge and Hannah Gloudon
10. Reclaiming self-care: Thriving as a black woman psychotherapist within systemically unjust systems by Leoni Cachia
Afterword: Going forward by Natalie Bailey
