2025 has been a very challenging year. Many good things happened. I completed my book’ a Black Empathic Approach to Psychotherapy’ with an appropriate subtitle ‘Growing from rage to Compassion’. I have become more aware of how my rage functions to jeopardise my self care and therefore I have been more cautious of my abandonment issues, and turning around the pattern of rejection due to my mistrust and fear of abandonment.   I have become more aware of kindness towards me and

In may when I returned to the UK, I was horrified to find that my son had been taken to hospital critically ill. After a week in a coma he started to recover from a life threatening illness. This meant  I had to cancel the planned trip on the Ghana Liberation tour with with Protect Black Women project. https://protectblackwomen.com/about-us/ Yes I was bitterly disappointed, but family comes first. As we moved towards the end of the summer I realised how tired I had become and

Black Women, Trauma and Therapy -Ed. Helen george: Revolutionising therapeutic thought and practice Along with authors who contributed...

After my recent keynote presentation.   Having presented at the online Existential conference ‘Into the Wild Woods’, I realise that I...

This will be an exciting year for new presentations, Workshops, talks, and the promise of my new book ‘A Black Empathic Approach to...

Greetings from my ancestral home Tobago.Once again I am in my happy place. Having completed the manuscript for my new book, Title ' A...

Greeting to those who visit. Wishing you a healing and inspiring 2022. Having survived the pandemic thus far, these days are precious....

Weaving Compassion and transformation (The end of an era) July 13th, 2021 It’s May 11th 2021. The Prime Minister has just announced that...

Healing Voluntary Servitude and Increasing Self-care.   Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga June 2020   It was never our job to take care of the...

The meaning of transculturalism, as a competency for professional practice must not remain vague. For therapists to emerge from training...