“Healing happens in community, nature, culture & the dismantling of oppressive systems.”

-Shenikka Moore-Clarke, LICSW

While psychotherapy that focuses on emotion regulation and coping skill development can be valuable for many people, we understand that healing happens when we stand against harm, abuse, and oppression that keeps us constantly fighting to stay regulated.

Shared Stories Counseling is committed to empowering you to remind yourself… “My inability to stay regulated in a toxic and oppressive system is not the problem!”

We’d love to help you connect to local communities, activists, authors and online spaces that can remind you of this as well.

Books

Decolonizing Therapy by Jennifer Mullen, PsyD

We Refuse by Kellie C. Jackson

The Politics of Trauma by Staci K. Haines

Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem