Contributed by Kenneth Hardy
A Puncturing of the Soul
Facing Racial Trauma and Internalized DevaluationIf clinicians continue to assert that "trauma is trauma," the uniqueness treating racial trauma will remain on the margins of what we extol as best practice. Read more
Healing the Invisible Wounds of Racial Trauma in Therapy
A Conversation with Kenneth V. HardyNetworker discusses racially-sensitive, trauma-informed interventions and strategies with Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy. Read more
The Assaulted Sense of Self
Rethinking How We Talk about RaceTherapist and author Ken Hardy speaks on the toll that micro and macro assaults on dignity take on the lives of people of color, challenging therapists to... Read more
VIDEO: Making Talking About Race Your Work
A Therapist's Call to ActionToo many Black people are living in a wall-less prison, says therapist Ken Hardy, where they're constantly calibrating their lives based on the expectations of... Read more
A Black Therapist in America
Speaking Out Against Learned VoicelessnessBlack people know all too well that their daily experience of racism doesn’t matter unless it interferes with the lives of the white mainstream. As a result... Read more
VIDEO: The Assaulted Sense of Self
Voicelessness in Black AmericaHow much has the therapy profession confronted race in America? At what point do therapists need to join the conversation? And how might they do so? In... Read more
Making Space for Race
Creating and Holding Connection with Black TeenagersTherapy with teenagers has to be about creating and holding a connection. As a therapist, I'm like a spider trying to lure my clients into a web that will... Read more
VIDEO: Ken Hardy on Getting Through to Inner City Youth
Helping Traumatized Kids Discover Their Inner ResourcesIn its coverage of race-related discord, the media has fixed on lurid images of violence and destruction without providing much context for understanding the... Read more
When All Else Fails
Stories of Vulnerability and PossibilityThe self-assurance of expert practitioners who publicly present their work can lead everyday therapists to believe that psychotherapy is a far more predictable... Read more
Then, Now & Tomorrow
Oral Histories of Psychotherapy 1978-2017A group of innovators and leaders look back over different realms of therapeutic practice and offer their view of the eureka moments, the mistakes and... Read more
The View From Black America
Listening to the Untold StoriesMany poor, young, black people see themselves as trapped behind a wall-less prison with no exits. They know all too well that their daily experience—whether... Read more
Manualized psychotherapy is squeezing out people on the margins of mainstream society. Read more
To Self-Disclose, or Not to Self-Disclose?
Ken Hardy on Why Not Self-Disclosing Can Hurt TherapyPsychotherapy Networker Founder Rich Simon talks to Ken Hardy about how self-disclosure is part of the power structure in the therapy room. Read more
VIDEO: Finding the Hero in Troubled Youth
Ken Hardy on Trauma Treatment that Taps into the Hero that Resides in All YouthPN Founder Rich Simon talks with Ken Hardy about finding the heroism amongst young clients that helps them survive. Read more
Finding the Hero Within
Exploring the Link Between Trauma and OppressionKenneth Hardy believes that the experience of trauma is too often unacknowledged by therapists struggling to help troubled minority youth. Read more
When "Them" Become "Us"
Crossing the great divide of othernessThe creation of "the other" is the dynamic at the heart of racism, sexism, homophobia, and persecution. The first step in altering that dynamic is the struggle... Read more
What Textbooks Don't Tell You
Acknowledging the complexities of real-life therapyAcknowledging the complexities of real-life therapy Read more
Breathing Room
Creating a Zone of Safety and Connection for Angry Black TeensTherapy is about healing and also about promoting connection. The healing starts when we lance the wounds our clients bring in, help them vent their pain and... Read more
In the fluid world of our practices, we must face the truth of opposing truths everyday. Read more
Kenneth V. Hardy
Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, is director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships and professor of marriage and family therapy at Drexel University.