More white Americans have realized the urgency of deeper conversations about race. Are therapists ready to have these conversations?
Veteran Timothy Ryan had been working on anger management for a year in therapy when, while refueling his Dodge Ram in a Virginia Beach gas station, a white customer next to him made a racist joke. Ryan realized that because he was also white and drove a pickup, the other man assumed Ryan would be amused. Instead, he was outraged. “There was a pumping in my chest,” he recalled. “I was getting hot and tingly.” But he feared challenging the man’s comment and then felt ashamed for not speaking up.
According to Sulka and the eight other therapists I interviewed who’ve done this race work with white people, if their clients bring up race, it’s usually because interpersonal experiences with people of color surface deeper psychological issues. To be clear, the issues these therapists identify as suitable for therapy work do not include hateful racism or the type of paranoid, violent extremism that produced the recent massacre in Buffalo, New York.
Over several decades, researchers and clinicians have been developing methods to treat the race trauma people of color experience—essential work that still needs to be expanded and made more widely available. New York–based therapist Kenneth Hardy, who is Black and a leader in race trauma work, said that many therapists of color explicitly identify this as an area of expertise, and university clinical training programs now often include a race trauma component.
Hardy, who is now drawing from his background to implement training on whiteness and therapy, believes that psychotherapy can further the education-based race work many white people have sought since the 2020 protests, when Ibram X. Kendi’sbecame bestsellers. “Kendi and DiAngelo’s books provide enlightenment about race, but where they can fall short is in keeping us upstairs in our head, dealing with ideas and not dealing with all the emotional stuff that comes up,” he said.
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