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When mental health professionals perpetuate colonial harm

My therapist keeps suggesting I'm 'playing the victim' when I talk about experiencing racism and I don't know if she's right or if this is gaslighting.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic spaces can become sites of recolonization when practitioners lack consciousness about systemic oppression.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”

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