Exploring Racial Stress, Trauma, and Antiracism
This workshop will explore different types of racial trauma and how it lives in the body and shows up in relationships. We will explore the legacy of white body supremacy and developing an anti-racism lens in clinical and personal life. We will work to deconstruct therapy models that center whiteness and how to hold space for collective rage and grief with clients and colleagues that supports healing. This anti-racism model will take a mindfulness-based approach to invite in curiosity and an embodied experience. It is an interactive workshop that uses multimedia format to encourage processing in different ways.
Nathalie Edmond is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in trauma, mindfulness-based approaches, and antiracism. She graduated with her PsyD in 2003 and is also a 500-hour trained yoga teacher. Dr. Edmund was director of a women’s trauma program for 7 years, a staff psychologist at Princeton University, and is currently the director of counseling at Villanova University. Academically, Dr. Edmund has facilitated hundreds of hours of antiracism education, and has taught a graduate course on Multiculturalism and Feminism for many years. Clinically, she has been trained in a variety of evidence-based approaches such as DBT, EMDR,
Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Prolonged Exposure. She owns a group practice in New Jersey and has an antiracism-focused online membership community called Antiracism Revolution. In October, 2024, Dr. Edmund’s book