Decolonizing Mental Health Care – Tending to Racialized Trauma and Ruptures

Duration: 51m 49s

Note: this recording is available via the Wise Conversations subscription. When you check out with one of these products in your cart, you will get instant unlimited access to all 100+ Wise Conversations each month you remain subscribed. This includes interviews, teaching dialogues and masterclasses from renowned voices in our field, including Janina Fisher, Richard Schwartz, Pat Ogden, Stan Tatkin, Gabor Mate, Peter Levine, Stephen Porges and many, many more!

Melody Li speaks to the harm caused by focusing on fragmented compartmentalized structures, providing a rich discussion and guidance for those interested in centering the collective psyche. In order to tend to a full being, we need to tend to the interconnection. Listen in on this conversation now to learn more.

Melody Li (佢/ any) is a colony-born migrant and diasporic settler on Turtle Island. They are a queer therapist of color, mental health liberation activist, and keynote speaker. They founded Inclusive Therapists: a mental health directory and community that celebrates and centers people with marginalized identities (especially the BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ intersection). Melody offers collective care and education focusing on decolonizing mental health and healing racialized trauma.

Tori Olds, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in private practice in Austin, Texas. She is the training director and part-owner of Deep Eddy Psychotherapy, a training and counseling center that houses 120 clinicians. She specializes in the integration of experiential approaches to therapy and teaches four weekly training groups on this topic. She also offers online video-based trainings that offer CEU’s. Tori is passionate about breaking down complex psychological theories to make them accessible to the public, which she does through her Youtube channel as well as speaking engagements.