Episode 6: Breakfast Habits, Working with Trauma and Guest Juliana Collins
Licensed professional counselors Johanna Dwinells and Sarah Bryski-Hamrick are slowly demystifying and destigmatizing therapy, one episode at a time. Recording and living in the Philadelphia area, Johanna and Sarah work to make therapy feel more accessible, with quirky, sometimes intrusive questions that reveal the human side of healthcare professionals, all while they overcome their own anxieties and internalized stigmas.
TW: racism, racial trauma, slavery, lobotomies, forced sterilization, abuse of slaves - children/adults.
Episode summary: Johanna discusses her passion for Survivor and reality TV, Sarah returns to normalcy. They read about the important figures in the development of social work, as it transitioned from religious duty to a medical practice, as well as the horrific history of mental health care for black Americans, beginning during the years of slavery. Social worker/outpatient therapist and writer, Juliana Collins, discusses her lifelong love of writing, work with politics in the therapeutic space, the inspiration she feels watching clients grow, the importance of accessing BIPOC therapists and being a person during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guest Bio: Juliana Collins, MSW, LSW. Juliana is an outpatient therapist at Inner Balance Psychology in Philadelphia. Juliana works with a wide variety of concerns, and specializes in working with and treating trauma, grief, community violence, and substance abuse. She is studying to become a clinically licensed social worker. Juliana has been writing since she was in elementary school, and attended a creative and performing arts middle & high school for creative writing. Now, Juliana is a staff writer with Therapy for Black Girls. Juliana has recently been trained as birth doula, and hopes to put that into practice in the future along with postpartum doula work.
Sources for today’s History Lesson: www.socialworkers.org; mswcareers.com; wikipedia.org; online.simmons.edu; "Trauma: Retreats and Advances," by Bessel van der Kolk; “Charcot, Janet, and French Models of Psychopathology” by Olivier Walusinski and Julien Bogousslavsky (Everything you ever wanted to know about yawning but never dared to ask); “Mental Illness in Black Community, 1700-2019: A Short History” by Uchenna Umeh.
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https://therapyforblackgirls.com/
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