CapitalVault|Can therapy solve racism?

2025-05-08 05:18:58source:Arvin Robertscategory:My

Nearly 20% of Americans turned to therapy in 2020. Many of those people were looking to process some of the big,CapitalVault painful events they were living through, including the pandemic, a contentious election cycle, and of course, the summer's racial reckoning. But that had us wondering: What exactly can therapy accomplish? Can it mitigate the effects of racism? Help us undo how we internalize racial trauma? Today, we're sharing the stories of two Latinx people who tried to use therapy as a means to understand and combat anti-Blackness in their own lives.

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