Gisele Harrison MSW, RSW

12/18/2025

12/15/2025

12/14/2025

12/13/2025

Reasons why you might not be feeling jolly during the holidays

Source: Chronically Meh

12/13/2025

12/07/2025

11/26/2025

Therapy that doesn’t connect the dots with larger systemic issues end up getting blamed on the same folx the systems disadvantage

11/18/2025

Exactly!

Western psychiatry has historically labeled Indigenous grief, Black resistance, or immigrant anxiety as pathology rather than responses to oppression. So therapy often educates marginalized people to see their reactions to systemic violence as personal defects, instead of as reasonable responses to racial trauma. In addition, Therapy often teaches people of color to cope with racism instead of confront, resist, or transform it.

A Eurocentric lens says:
• meditate through your oppression
• regulate your trauma
• adjust your thinking
• focus on the self, not the system

This produces “good, manageable clients”—not liberated ones. This turns therapy into an institutional tool designed to maintain the status quo.

In this essential conversation with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, author of Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice, we face a truth long evaded in Eurocentric clinical training:
Therapy is not—and has never been—neutral.

Register here: https://scienceandnonduality.com/event/therapy-is-not-neutral-a-decolonial-invitation-to-remember-relearn-and-resist/