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Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN 6/9/26 Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN 6/9/26

Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan, PsyD

In her book, Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice Jennifer Mullan states that we must hold white supremacy accountable, she discusses how white supremacy disconnects us from our humanity. Race is a social construct that was first named in 1795. Racism is race prejudice plus power over another. White supremacy is the result of colonization.

Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN 4/12/22 Cori Hildebrandt, MA, LPC WI, LPCC MN 4/12/22

Bibliotherapy: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté

In his book, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Gabor Maté discusses how “addiction is neither a choice nor primarily a disease,” instead it is a human being’s “desperate attempt to solve a problem: the problem of emotional pain, of overwhelming stress, of lost connection, of loss of control, of deep discomfort with the self.”