A phenomenology of racism in psychotherapy and supervision
This webinar uses phenomenology to move beyond the binary constructs of race and explores how as practitioners and supervisors we can work with the issues which arise in our client work and our supervision work.
AFSP member: £35
Non-member: £45
AFSP student member: £20
Online
Organiser
Association for Family and Systemic Psychotherapy
When George Floyd was murdered in May 2020, the outpouring of anger towards those who took his life was also met by a reactive refrain that all lives mattered and that race does not exist. Yet, why is this denial of race, and therefore of racism, still so problematic?
One of the reasons is our understanding of race as a construct is incomplete. This webinar, titled ‘A phenomenology of racism in psychotherapy practice and supervision’, looks to explore our understanding of race through our experience of conscious and unconsciously internalised racism.
Seeing race as a construct of whiteness, of patriarchy and of class superiority, the webinar recognises how race has defined so many of us; how we may aspire to be racially superior, and how we may suffer the trauma of being racially seen as the other.
About the speaker: Dr Dwight Turner, psychotherapist, supervisor and workshop facilitator
Dr Dwight Turner is course leader on the Humanistic Psychotherapy Course at the University of Brighton, and a psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice.
Dr Turner is the author of Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Depoliticised Pathways Towards Intersectional Practice (2025), The Psychology of Supremacy (2023), and Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy (2021). All are published by Routledge.
An intersectional psychotherapist, Dr Turner is an experienced conference speaker. He can be contacted via his website or on social media on LinkedIn, Threads or Bluesky.
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