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Disrupting narratives of oppression in therapy
​to create healthy relationships

Disrupting narratives of oppression in therapy ​to create healthy relationships
Saturday, April 27, 2019     10 am to 1 pm        $40

When we work with survivors of complex childhood trauma we are working with people who have been forcibly colonized with cultural norms of systemic structures of oppression and devaluation. Often these internalized constructs are themselves the evidence of similar colonization of a culture and its members by message of worthlessness and disposability. The net result of these various kinds of attachment trauma, whether they be direct, intergenerational, or post-colonial, leave adult survivors of complex developmental trauma with insufficient reserves of resources for having the emotional intimacy and quality of relationship lives they desire and deserve.

This workshop will offer therapists a model, which I call "Not the price of admission," for understanding how these processes of internal colonization leave survivors with the trauma-informed beliefs that they must pay the price -- in dignity, in integrity, in safety -- for the privilege of having emotionally meaningful relationships. We will discuss strategies for disruption and decolonization in the therapeutic realm.

Laura S Brown, PhD ABPP, practiced psychotherapy for 40 years with a diverse group of survivors of complex childhood trauma. She pioneered work in the fields of feminist therapy, culturally competent practice, trauma treatment, and work with lesbians, and has authored 14 books and more than 160 professional journal articles and book chapters. Currently working as a consultant and forensic psychologist after retiring from psychotherapy practice, she travels the world teaching on these topics. You can learn more about her work on her website at www.drlaurabrown.com. Copies of her books for survivors, Not the price of admission: Healthy relationships after childhood trauma, and Your turn for care: Surviving the aging and death of the adults who harmed you, will be available for purchase at her workshop.

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To register, email [email protected]

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    • Transits: Writing workshop for trans teens
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    • Parenting Neurodivergent Children
    • Trans Teens Connect!
    • When Winter is Too Much
    • Raising your unexpected child
    • Kate Mageau Groups
    • OCD Group
    • Intersectionality, race, and spirituality
    • From Strength to Strength
    • Eric Ward: Responding to White Nationalism
    • Resmaa Menakem: Healing racial trauma
    • Womxn of Color Healing Circle
    • Tools for healing and liberation >
      • Oct 28 2017
      • Dec 9 2017
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