The year 2022. In Buffalo, New York, there was a mass shooting.

White therapists and Black therapists in the area reached out to me. They knew about Anti-Racist Psychotherapy and they wanted to know how to use an approach that helped to heal racial trauma individually, in groups, interracially, and intraracially.

This led me to develop Racial Trauma Recovery. Based on my years of working in Montreal, Toronto and the surrounding Indigenous communities, I created a psychotherapeutic framework that can be used as an adjunct for most evidence-based psychotherapies.

This book introduces Rhythm and Processing (RAP), an approach that is different from conventional talk therapies because it integrates anti-racist psychotherapy, the capacity to transform complex trauma, and Africentric principles rather than Eurocentric models of change.

We have enough books out there that talk about racism, but few talk about how we can use memory reconsolidation throughout our psychotherapeutic interventions to bring about permanent change.

When we understand how our brains work, we can use streaming online videos, music, pets, nature and culture to help people to heal complex racial trauma.

Here’s what you’ll gain:

• How to understand racial trauma.
• Knowledge about identifying and understanding complex PTSD and dissociation.
• Handouts that show how to use the RAP technique  as a means of self-care and for your own communities
• Knowledge of how to implement it to help people to heal online and in person.
• The evidence base for understanding how I work with people everyday to help them to heal.