Intergenerational Trauma Therapy

BIPOC individuals and communities of color face specific challenges, not only on an individual level but intergenerationally as well. Intergenerational trauma means there are multiple layers that go beyond you as an individual and your lived experience — there are layers of historic, generational, and collective trauma to be addressed and tended to for true healing. In trauma therapy, we seek to hold space for all of those layers, including the ways in which you and your family have survived oppression and racism. With the use of a respectful, multidimensional approach to best serve your needs in our trauma therapy sessions so your experience as a BIPOC and/or member of the LGBTQIA+ community is honored and seen. 

You may also have trauma related to rejection, abandonment, or toxic shame. Oftentimes unhealthy family dynamics emerge from unhealed trauma across generations. We do not place blame on your family for this, although, holding people accountable for their behavior where possible. Together, we can examine the narratives you may have learned from your family or our capitalistic, patriarchal society that are not conducive to your growth and well-being (e.g., normalizing exhaustion, denying yourself the ability to rest). Instead, we can replace them with more empowering narratives that bolster self-confidence and self-love.