Welcoming Our Triggers: Group for Therapists of Color
Empowering Therapists of Color: embrace your triggers, enhance your skills, and elevate your therapy practice.
Are you a therapist of color seeking to transform your triggers into powerful tools for growth?
Discover our group designed specifically for therapists of color. Learn to navigate challenging moments, deepen client connections, and unlock your potential as a mental health professional.
Join Our Community of Empowered Therapists of Color
Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your practice and connect with peers who understand your unique experiences.
Sign up for Fall 2025
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Transform therapy triggers into growth opportunities through enhanced self-witnessing skills
Target the growth of embodied skills (self-compassion & humility) which lead to best therapy outcomes and burnout prevention
Help integrate intuition, science, and anti-oppressive values while in the therapy chair
Leave with profound insights that foster deeper self-awareness and strengthen your connection to your clients
Connect with a supportive community of liberation-oriented therapists of color
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Recognize triggers in real-time
Engage with your triggers through embodiment
Cultivate curiosity towards triggers
Extend self-compassion
Develop strategies for managing triggers and unlocking the wisdom of your triggers in sessions
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Merging neuroscience and experiential wisdom, our unique approach equips you to:
Navigate challenging client interactions with confidence
Access deeper creativity and intuition in sessions
Understand and work with your triggers effectively
Embody anti-oppressive, power-with therapeutic approaches
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Comprehensive workbook that includes practical worksheets, a robust set of clinical skills that you can immediately apply in your work with clients, and research findings on the key factors that contribute to the most effective therapy outcomes - insights that may profoundly reshape how you approach your role as a therapist moving forward.
Access to a supportive community of therapists of color
Experiential learning opportunities in a safe, brave space
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This experience is perfect for therapists of color who:
Feel stuck in challenging client interactions
Want to access more creativity and intuition in sessions
Seek to understand and work with their triggers effectively
Aim to embody anti-oppressive, power-with therapeutic approaches
Look for a supportive community of liberatory-minded professionals
meet the facilitators
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I'm a queer Korean experiential, decolonizing therapist whose work centers queer trans people of color. My life's work is helping folks discover their unique path to liberation.
I'm a STAIR Method trained therapist with additional training in IFS, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Somatic Abolitionism.
I'm a lover of trees, full yes experiences, ancestral wisdom, grief work, parts work, somatic creativity, and neuroscience.
I love being in space with folks who are curious to decolonize and revolutionize the healing space into one that is truly safe for self-discovery and relational transformation.
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Sanaa is a therapist working mainly with South Asian couples and individuals. She uses an integrated approach, informed by relational and somatic therapies, and interpersonal neurobiology to help clients find meaning, self esteem, and healthy boundaries. Sanaa uses her lived experience of trauma, being first generation, being muslim, being a mom (among many other identities) to connect deeply with her clients. As part of her many identities, Sanaa is an artist and enjoys working with clients and other therapists who are also creative entrepreneurs.
In Conversation
FAQS
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Clinical trainings help us feel more skilled and competent, yet they are likely not helping us in moments we are triggered and feeling deskilled with our clients.
This group will focus on moments we feel deskilled, lost, scared, and triggered with our clients.
If we come into relationship with ourselves in these particular moments, we'll discover wisdom about what’s going on inside us, and between us and clients. This wisdom can unlock creativity and clues to what needs to happen next with clients and what supports we need in place for ourselves, so that we're not getting in our own way while supporting clients’ journeys.
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Triggers is shorthand for feeling lost, stuck, scared, wrong, inadequate or deskilled. Our triggers are parts of us. They offer us wisdom.
We are triggered way more often than we think we are as therapists.
We can't stop our triggers from happening
(given our autonomic nervous system's fast processing speed) but, we can greet out triggers with a regulating response.
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As therapists, we know curiosity and compassion are at the core of our work, but we don’t often get a chance to practice in detail how to embody true curiosity and compassion when we’re in hard, sticky spaces with ourselves and clients.
This group will create the space for embodied practice.
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What our clients need from us is to be with them with curious and compassionate presence in whatever moment we find ourselves in.
What makes that really hard? Well, when we’re triggered, we leave ourselves and clients.
When we’re triggered, we either subconsciously want to change the threat or distance ourselves from the threat. Subconsciously, our assessment of the threat is often our client. When we move into this space with clients, we can get in the way of client’s innate capacity to be with themselves.
That’s why, how we greet ourselves as therapists is shown to be one of the biggest factors in yielding best therapy outcomes (more here).
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Practice working with our triggers so that we can return to connection with ourselves and clients when we are triggered.
When we greet ourselves with compassion, we can come out of threat response, access more parts of ourselves, and have more space to be curious and creative.
When we can be more okay with our triggers and support our triggers as they happen,
we can be a regulating force for our clients to move into deeper spaces with themselves.
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First, we do not mean acquiring skills in the way we have been taught by western colonial models of therapy. We welcome challenging all ideas that are steeped in power-over domination, white supremacy, and colonialism.
We mean building our innate capacity to be in touch with patience, curiosity, respect, being with, acceptance, love, and honest sharing of our messy human existence.
In our efforts to be power-with facilitators,
we’re hoping to not be experts, but gatherers of collective wisdom of the group.
logistics
Cadence: We’ll meet biweekly for 6 months (total of 12 sessions) for 1.5 hour each beginning Fall 2025.
Fee: $100 per meeting. We ask for full payment before the group begins.
For who: Coaches, social workers, health/healing practitioners, and all levels of experience as therapists are welcome!
Size: 6-8 participants per group.
Your responsibility: We look forward to creating an intimate and vibrant community experience, so once you’ve committed to the group, you are responsible for showing up to the group sessions and for the fee. The meetings will not be recorded, live attendance is required.
Witness the Transformation: Therapists of Color Turn Triggers into Profound Insights
Peek behind the curtain as we guide fellow therapists through their most challenging moments. In these exclusive demo videos, you'll see:
Raw, unfiltered therapy sessions tackling real triggers
Aha moments that create internal shifts
Therapists discovering new ways of being with themselves through hard therapy moments
Conversation with Juliane Taylor Shore
Sanaa & Bokyung are joined by Jules, a neuroscience-specialist therapist, to discuss the group's 5 core skills and why it's a map to discover self-compassion.
We talk about why self-compassion is key to decolonizing our practice and how we face ethical costs when we don't greet ourselves well as therapists.