Treating Cultural & Racial Trauma with Somatic Practices

As the world around us continues to shift, clients living at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities may be navigating additional cultural stressors and finding it harder to show up in spaces where they don’t feel safe. Treating trauma that stems from experiences of racism and ambiguous loss can be challenging. These losses run deep in the lives of minoritized clients, but they’re generally unrecognized by society, and despite the pervasiveness of racialized stress and discrimination in the everyday lives of people of color, many clinicians don’t feel adequately equipped to address the trauma of racism. Through interactive discussion and experiential exercises, participants will gain the knowledge to develop culturally informed strategies to treat Black, Indigenous, and other clients of color who’ve experienced racial stress or trauma. You’ll also learn: 
 

• What culturally responsive therapy looks like in practice  
• How to work with racial trauma in an embodied way 
• How to incorporate multiple frameworks into culturally responsive practices, including EMDR, IFS, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy