Decolonizing Trauma Work
Indigenous Stories and Strategies

This book reads like a graduate thesis, which for me wasn’t too challenging as I enjoy reading academic papers but I gotta say that makes it pretty inaccessible. The font size is tiny and there are in-text citations every other sentence it seems. I took off one star Bc it’s readability is 👎🏼 As for......more

Full disclosure that Dr. Renee Linklater is a colleague of mine, though we don't work together directly. This book is based on her dissertation. As such, the book can be a little dry at times (especially Chapter 2 which is a literature review dealing mostly with how colonialism has affected the ment......more

Linklater shows how the categories of mainstream therapy are founded on a euro-centric and white perspective of the human self. She also shows how helpful traditional cultural healing practices are for indigenous people. I was fascinated by the swing therapy that one indigenous practitioner develope......more

This is the first assigned reading/text in my entire 4 years of undergraduate studies that I have read in its entirety. This is a very important text for anyone interested in the helping fields, and will be a book that stays with me through my own journey of developing my therapeutic practice. 4.5 st......more

I found it a very interesting read. I dont do any trauma work but I found it helpful to develop a better understanding of the trauma of colonizing......more