A Black Empathic Approach to Psychotherapy

This book presents the concept of a black Empathic Approach, an experiential model used as a means of developing powerful feelings associated with racism, such as fear, guilt, and rage, into a useful THERAPEUTIC tool for healing the intersectional impact of anti-black racism and associated oppressions.

Dr. Isha Mckenzie- Mavinga, Retired Psychotherapist, poet and lecturer, has thirtythree
years' experience as a Transcultural Psychotherapist, Supervisor, Lecturer,
Writer and Reiki Master. She contributed papers and poetry to several anthologies.
Isha initiated therapeutic services at the African Caribbean Mental Health
Association in Brixton, and at Women's Trust, working with women impacted
by violence in relationships. She was a student counsellor and senior lecturer at
London Metropolitan University and taught at Goldsmiths University of London.
She has presented Black Issues workshops, based on concepts created during her
Doctoral research and published in her books. As her legacy, she presents talks and
trains master facilitators to present her concept of a black Empathic Approach to
expand thinking and practice that embrace an emergence from the impact of racism
and develop intersectional, anti- oppressive therapeutic practice in Counselling &
Psychotherapy, psychology, and the caring professions.