Decolonizing Mental Health

Dr. Keshavarzi is building psychological treatment processes around faith-based concepts.

Dr. Igda Martinez is dedicated to empowering unhoused people and breaking stereotypes.

A mother's struggle to find adequate mental healthcare for her son with a disability.

Adriana Alejandre decides to change the way the Latinx community views mental healthcare.

Those leaving the reservation for higher education have tools to protect their community.

Native psychologists push for a move away from self and into the circularity of nature.

Struggle against a culture that robs Native people of their identity and sense of self.

Well-known in his community, Paul Hoang is teaching people empathetic mental healthcare.

Kelvin Nguyen unlearns shame and embraces therapy to help himself and others.

Anthropologist Linh An calls for a just mental healthcare system that dismantles racism.

A good mental health treatment process must include families and friends.

Dr. Vivian Jackson’s 6 As and how they tackle the many disparities of mental healthcare.

Natasha Stovall’s centering of whiteness aims to cure psychiatry’s colorblindness.

Shawna Murray-Browne’s quest to help BIPOC access ways of nurture, care, and healing.

How Idris Mitchell’s bipolar disorder put him in an eternal pursuit of beauty and joy.

Lloyd Hale’s story of teenage schizophrenia and the lack of mental health support.

Lloyd Hale’s journey from being a convict to a peer support specialist living in recovery.

No matter who you are, how you identify or what you believe in, there is a resource available to help. If you or a loved one is struggling, seek support at one of these organizations.

DECOLONIZING MENTAL HEALTH examines the mental health industry through the lens of the BIPOC community, Meet the patients and practitioners that are paving the way for more inclusive mental healthcare.

Expert panel of BIPOC practitioners gather to discuss what more can be done to address lacking resources and access for BIPOC communities in the mental healthcare industry.

Journalist and documentary film professional Bedatri D. Choudhury examines the white supremacy of the mental healthcare industry for DECOLONIZING MENTAL HEALTH.