Black Women, Trauma and Therapy

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.