“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