Healing Racial Trauma with EMDR: A Deep Dive with David Archer and Dr. Norissa

Have you ever wondered what it takes to heal from racial trauma? In this episode of Radical Remembering, I sit down with David Archer, an anti-racist psychotherapist based in Montreal, Canada. We explore his journey as a psychotherapist, his approach to healing racial trauma, and why he identifies as an anti-racist psychotherapist.

David shares insights from his book, Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma, and discusses how trauma processing techniques like EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) can be used to heal from racialized experiences.

Throughout our conversation, David emphasizes the importance of recognizing and unlearning the negative beliefs we've internalized through media and educational experiences. Healing, he reminds us, is not a final destination but an ongoing ...