From Passive Awareness to Active Liberation in Psychotherapy
JusticeUnpacked
We took our decades+ of experience teaching & practicing justice-oriented therapy and distilled it into foundational frameworks that you can implement right now.
Ground your practice in justice-oriented fundamentals and support your clients by co-creating transformative spaces of healing & liberation.
This workshop was
made for you if you are:
Are eager to swap out problematic approaches of traditional psychotherapy with practices that actually address systemic oppression but don’t know where to start.
Feel isolated and outnumbered in navigating colonial, cis/mono/heteronormative professional spaces and crave a community to co-struggle with.
Are seeking deeper understanding and genuine change but overwhelmed by the vast amount of information out there.
Are determined to practice in ways that move us towards collective liberation.
Here’s what you can expect:
Turning theory to practice
3 Instantly Integrate-able Techniques
Learn how to seamlessly weave justice-oriented context into any therapeutic conversation – including conversations with folx who have different politics.
Lessons from Transformative justice
Repairing Over Regretting
Learn how to address harm through repair conversations with clients, ensuring that intentions, even when they fall short, pave the way for support and rapport.
Generative unlearning
Top 5
Myths & Mistakes
Unpack the most common myths and mistakes psychotherapists encounter as they develop their justice-oriented practice (and how to resist them)
Meet your
facilitators
Abby Chow, MA, RCC-ACS
I’m a cis-queer, half-gen, racialized settler currently occupying the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), S'ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Qayqayt, and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) peoples. I navigate the world in a neurodivergent, straight-sized body and am working-turned-middle class. My ancestors and I are from Hong Kong, with roots in Chaozhou and Nanjing. After finding my way to this work through exploring and navigating my own relational harms through the lens of systemic oppression, I now practice privately and through various front line roles. My work primarily involves providing clinical supervision and justice-oriented operations consulting to practitioners and agencies, while supporting graduate programs as an adjunct faculty member and Healing in Colour as a board member.
Bhupie Dulay, MA, RCC-ACS
I’m a settler who was born and raised on the stolen unceded, ancestral territories of the Semiahmoo, sq̓əc̓iy̓aɁɬ təməxʷ (Katzie), Kwantlen, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, and sc̓əwaθenaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsawwassen) Nations; and my ancestors are from India. I am a cis, non-disabled, middle class, small fat woman.
Currently, I work as a therapist, supervisor, professor, and consultant, informed by social justice and collaborative principles. I am honoured to work alongside people who are navigating and resisting multiple systems of oppression individually, within relationships, and in communities. Supervision is an enriching experience for me—a space where I can engage in collaborative dialogue about best practices and ethics alongside critique and feedback. I also provide workshops, trainings, and consultations to organisations, teams, and boards. I’m an adjunct faculty at various local graduate programs and a board member at Healing in Colour.
