Black Women, Trauma and Therapy: Revolutionising Therapeutic Thought and Practice - Paperback

by Helen P. George (Editor)

This powerful testimony to the growing confidence and reach of Black women's therapy 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.

Author Biography

Helen is a BACP accredited psychotherapist and clinical supervisor with a career in the counselling and psychotherapy profession spanning more than 18 years. She is the founding director of Community Trauma UK and host of its bi-annual Community Trauma Conference, which centres on trauma and healing in Black communities. Alongside, Helen maintains a part-time private practice, offering specialised support to women who have experienced trauma, infertility, or involuntary childlessness. She is also pursuing a PhD at the University of Chester, researching the mental health needs of Black women experiencing infertility. Helen is passionate about writing and advocating for the mental health needs of Black communities and has published numerous articles and interviews with leading Black mental health professionals. She has also been featured in various media platforms discussing infertility and its associated challenges. As a conduit for change, Helen is dedicated to bringing together and amplifying the voices driving transformation in Black mental health.