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October 28, 2020

Asking Clients About Racial Stress and Trauma

How to Broach the Topic Appropriately

Monnica Williams, S. Kent Butler, Gail Parker, and Zachary Taylor

Talking to clients of color about race and experiences of racial trauma is critical. But many white clinicians struggle with how to open these discussions. Read More
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August 26, 2020

Race and Healing

Expanding the Conversation

Zachary Taylor, Lambers Fisher, Deran Young, S. Kent Butler, Gail Parker, Amber Flynn, and Monnica Williams

Now, more than ever, we’re engaged as a society in finding ways to have a truly meaningful dialogue about race and racism. But how do we translate good intentions into practice? In this discussion, six clinicians of color speak candidly with a white therapist about what actually helps heal race-based stress and trauma, rather than just pay it lip service. Read More

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Gail Parker

Gail Parker, PhD, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500, is a psychologist and a certified yoga therapist.  She is a nationally and internationally renowned media personality, educator, author, and thought leader.  Dr. Parker is the current president of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) and the author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma (2020).  Her broad expertise in behavioral health and wellness includes forty years as a practicing psychotherapist.  Dr. Parker is a lifelong practitioner of yoga and is well known for her pioneering efforts to blend psychology, yoga, and meditation as effective self-care strategies that can enhance emotional balance and contribute to the overall health and well-being of practitioners.  She has a special interest in utilizing and teaching Restorative Yoga and meditation as self-care practices for managing ethnic and race based traumatic stress.  She is a faculty member in the Beaumont School of Yoga Therapy in the department of Integrative Medicine and William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak Michigan, where she teaches mind/body strategies for reducing stress and healing emotional trauma to aspiring yoga therapists.