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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.
Foreword by Yetunde Ade-Serrano
Introduction - Black women revolutionising therapeutic thought and practice by Helen P. George
1. The un-silencing of black women: A black empathic approach by Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga
2. Lively up we self: A portal, some letters and a black feminist chorus by Gail Lewis and Foluke Taylor
3. How we are made 'mixed-race': Multiplicity of identity, multiplicity of experience by Janice Acquah
4. The intersectional invisibility of black women and infertility by Helen P. George
5. What gets pushed into us we push down together: Group work with black women re-writing HER story by Anthea Benjamin
6. African-centred therapy: Towards a womanist psychospiritual approach to healing by Rameri Moukam
7. Sharing breath: The personal narrative in black women's healing by Dawn Estefan
8. Ancestral Constellations: Healing the tears and fears of our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers by Sonya Welch-Moring
9. Birthing trauma, epistemic injustice, and (un)-seeking help: Black women and maternal healthcare in the UK by Dawn Edge and Hannah Gloudon
10. Reclaiming self-care: Thriving as a Black woman psychotherapist within systemically unjust systems by Leoni Cachia
Afterword: Going forward by Natalie Bailey
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.
