Nov 22, 2025 · 9:00 – 10:30am PST
Therapy Is Not Neutral
A Community Gathering with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, facilitated by Iya Affo
Therapy has never been outside of history. It cannot exist apart from empire, whiteness, capitalism, or the psychic disciplining that comes with them. In this essential conversation with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, author of Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice, we face a truth long evaded in Eurocentric clinical training:
Therapy is not—and has never been—neutral.
This gathering is a call to ground the therapeutic field in ancestral and systemic truths, not just intellectually, but emotionally and somatically. Together, we will explore:
- How colonialism, historical trauma, and systemic violence live in the therapy room
- Why disembodiment from lineage, land, and collective memory makes healing impossible
- What it means to decolonize therapy as a clinician, client, or co-conspirator
- How rage, grief, and refusal can become sacred medicines for repair
- What healing and justice look like when we stop individualizing harm and start remembering together
Dr. Mullan will share from her journey of calling therapists into a politicized practice—one rooted in responsibility, reverence, and collective liberation. The conversation will challenge clinicians to confront their training, interrogate their privilege, and participate in the sacred labor of relearning.
This event is open to therapists, students, organizers, caregivers, and anyone wondering:
What becomes possible when we stop treating therapy as treatment—and start tending it as relational repair?
Website:Â https://www.decolonizingtherapy.com/Â
