I help clinicians, healers, and coaches incorporate decolonized and liberatory values in their practices so that you can have a practice and/or service-based business that is truly affirming and welcoming to clients who hold marginalized identities.
Reader, Q: How do we continue to show up for our clients knowing we are a part of a system that continuously harms and further marginalizes them? A: By understanding that while we operate within an oppressive system, we are not part of an oppressive system, but we are actively resisting from within. By understanding that if we operate within this oppressive system it is not because we believe in it, but because it is the best we can do now, until we have more resources (time, money, energy) to leave the system completely and work on dismantling it from the outside. Examples of resisting from within an oppressive system:
How do I continue to show up for my clients? By remembering that I am on my client’s side (not insurance’s, not my board’s, or any other westernized/colonial regulatory body’s) and by reminding my clients that it is an oppressive system that is keeping them sick. I would understand if you want and can leave such an oppressive system by, say, quitting community mental health, opening a cash pay only practice, being able to afford good quality supervision and not just whatever is offered to you at your workplace, switching to coaching so that you don’t have to deal with absurd state or regional regulations. And my hope is that at that point you will do whatever is within your means to criticize and change this oppressive system from the outside. The free monthly Q&A sessions (a.k.a. Decolonized Consultation Sessions) are back If you participated last year, you are automatically signed (but can opt out here if this is not the right time). 🌈 These are 55-min Q&A sessions where you get to ask all the questions you have about decolonizing and liberating your therapy, healing, and/or wellness practice. You get to create community as the group will also offer feedback and suggestions that have worked for them. These groups are a wealth of communal knowledge! ☀️ I’ll answer as many questions we can cover in one meeting. ☀️ The meetings are recorded and shared for a limited time if you can’t attend. ☀️ You can attend to one or all meetings. If you have not joined yet, you can sign up below:
And share this email with ALL your therapists and healer friends, I want EVERY therapist and healer to decolonize and liberate their practices. We need to stop undoing the harm caused by westernized therapy practices NOW. In solidarity, Silvana @ Decolonize Your Practice PS. If you are new to this newsletter, you can read previous newsletter posts here. Let's connect! |
Decolonization and liberation coach for mental health professionals and service providers
I help clinicians, healers, and coaches incorporate decolonized and liberatory values in their practices so that you can have a practice and/or service-based business that is truly affirming and welcoming to clients who hold marginalized identities.
Reader, I can’t wait to have some time off in June. I am not going on vacation though; I honestly prefer to hibernate at home -independently of the season- in a low stimuli environment to recalibrate my nervous system. This year I did not plan this time off well ahead of time because, well, this year has not been business as usual (for all of us). To be honest, this year I have had to work extra hard on my self-care, extra hard on my liberatory and spiritual practice. I questioned harder the...
Reader, Q (from a therapist): I'm wondering how therapists who are decolonizing their practices are shifting from diagnosis and documenting things in an intake note or treatment plan where the diagnosis would typically go... the tools I have in my EHR are not set up for this and need to be reimagined but for the time being while using the system of an EHR with an intake note of a biopsychosocial assessment and history of symptoms with a diagnosis summing it up, and then the diagnosis leading...
Reader, Never forget that we all have some internalized oppression to unlearn. Liberation work is communal work. True healing (in mental health, in coaching, or in any other service based business) means connecting with the people you serve, it does not mean providing them band-aid treatments. If you want to decolonize your practice, you have to begin by decolonizing yourself (decolonizing yourself is decolonizing your practice). Healing from burnout is also decolonial work. Working within...