Racial Trauma Archives

Literature review: The effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for race-based traumatic stress with African Americans (Urban Social Work)

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of race-based traumatic stress on African Americans and examine if EMDR therapy is an effective treatment modality.

EMDR Therapy, High Achievers, and Racial Trauma

EMDRIA member Brittany A. Johnson shares her experience with EMDR therapy, high achievers, and racial trauma.

EMDRIA Members Respond: RESI Recipients on Community Cultural Wealth

EMDR therapists celebrate BIPOC/Minority Mental Health Month by identifying internal and external resources in their clients.

EMDRIA Members Respond: Community Cultural Wealth for Black History Month

EMDR therapists celebrate Black History Month using the lens of Community Cultural Wealth to identify resources in their clients.

Celebrating Community Cultural Wealth

EMDR therapists can use the lens of Community Cultural Wealth to identify internal and external resources in their clients.

IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) in EMDR Therapy

Panelists provide practical ideas for providing affirming EMDR services to diverse clients with an emphasis on intersectionality.

BIPOC Perspective on Staying Centered

BIPOC Perspective on Centering in an Uncentered World. Insights from the Fall 2022 issue of Go With That Magazine.

Antiracist EMDR Therapy

David Archer, MSW, MFT is devoting his EMDR therapy practice to helping his clients (and the broader EMDR therapy profession) understand what it truly means to be an antiracist EMDR therapist.

Leadership Series: Culturally Based Trauma and Adversity: Recognition, Definition, and Implications

This course offers the term Culturally Based Trauma & Adversity (CBTA) for trauma based in social, cultural or societal circumstances.

Empowering Youth and Families: Anti-Racist Psychotherapy using EMDR Therapy

This presentation will explore recommendations for conducting EMDR therapy from an anti-racist perspective.

EMDR Therapy with Native Americans/First Nation Peoples

Many Native American/FNMI people experience trauma due to the Residential School/Boarding School era, intergenerational trauma, racial inequality, and ongoing oppressive systems.

EMDR Therapy, PTSD and Treating Black Men and Adolescents

Dr. Allen Lipscomb, LCSW, associate professor, director of Minority Male Mentoring (M3) discusses how clinicians can help treat PTSD in Black men and adolescents who have experienced racial trauma.

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