Interrogating the Pervasiveness of White Supremacy in Psychotherapy Practice

Duration: 1h 7m 19s

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This session with Joseph Winn and Akilah Riley-Richardson explores:

• • Power, privilege & clinical practice;
  • Understanding the connections white supremacy & settler colonialism;
  • Moving from ‘comfortable stagnation’ to ‘uncomfortable growth’;
  • Adding critical social theories to clinical practice (Queer theory, Critical Race theory, Crip theory);
  • Working with racism, classism, heteronormativity, ageism & ableism in relational therapy;
  • Expanding the field of therapy to reflect the realities that the political is always clinical.

Joe Winn is a licensed independent clinical social worker, an AASECT certified sex therapist, and certified supervisor of sex therapy. He completed his MSW at The Boston University School of Social Worker in 1995 and early in his career specialized in family and couples’ therapy. Joe has maintained a private practice since 2003 and has worked with a diverse group of individuals, families, and couples.

Joe has experience working with issues of domestic violence, substance use, end of life issues, and assisting male and female survivors of sexual assault and abuse re-create erotic intimacy, pleasure and trust. Joe’s life-long clinical interests are centered in working with LGBTQIA + relationships, consensual non-monogamy, BDSM & kink communities and all things sex and relational therapy. Joe has lectured nationally and internationally on topics such as problematic sexual behavior, applying queer theory and anti-racist practice in psychotherapy, and making psychotherapy therapy more accountable to marginalized communities.

Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP, is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, a Brainspotting Therapist and a Relational Healing Facilitator. She has received training in various areas including Somatic Experiencing, Playback Theatre, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Neuroscience, Compassion Focused Therapy, and Internal Family Systems Therapy.