Publisher's Synopsis
Racial Trauma Recovery: Healing Our Past Using Rhythm and Processing Strategies
Challenge your preconceptions and change your beliefs about trauma treatment.
"Mr. Archer has written a book that is a must-read for any practitioner in the field of trauma treatment. Get your copy!"
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP
Author of the bestselling book: My Grandmother's Hands
"With this new offering, David Archer reveals himself as a true gift to the field of Psychotherapy...Racial Trauma Recovery, provides a revolutionary new paradigm in the treatment and healing of Racial Trauma that is a timely and important resource that every therapist needs a copy of. During this global demand for racial justice and social change, we need more than just talk, we need healing."
Kimberly Cato, RP
Registered Psychotherapist
CEO / Founder of True Roots Counselling Services
"Mr. Archer's important work to address the mental health consequences of racial trauma is an essential read for mental health professionals."
Thomas Zimmerman, Ms.Ed., LPCC
EMDRIA Approved Consultant, EMDR Therapy Trainer
Creator of the Four Blinks Version of Flash
"David's model for working with individuals who have experienced racial trauma offers practitioners an innovative and highly responsive way to support clients to transcend the space of coping with racial harm and move towards deep healing and thriving. This book is an essential read for anyone engaged in liberatory therapeutic practices!"
Kamilah Clayton,
Registered Social Worker
ADWO Counselling & Consulting Services Inc
"On many occasions, I have thought about many of the realizations David Archer has in his book but could never find the words to express them. What David has written here is a must read by any practicing clinician who is venturing into doing anti-racist practice stemming from the way he has articulated and framed racial trauma and its treatment. David's personal and professional examples, conversations and understandings of therapeutic practice in treating racial trauma are unique, insightful, and hard hitting. Not only am I a better clinician and teacher due to reading his book, but a better person in what I can offer to my community."
Shimmon Hutchinson, BSW
Faculty at Dawson College, Social Services
Rhythm and Processing is an integrative clinical framework that is designed to treat the psychological impacts of racial trauma. Theories such as memory reconsolidation, structural dissociation, polyvagal theory, and EMDR therapy's Adaptive Information Processing theoretical model will be used to explain how racial trauma survivors can recover rapidly, efficiently, and permanently. Reading Racial Trauma Recovery will help you to become a better anti-racist psychotherapist and inspire hope for the future.
