OPINION: Healing in community is not a new idea, but it is one psychiatrists, psychologists and community organizers are advocating, given the dearth of available therapists.
Dr. Dixon Chibanda was one of about a dozen psychiatrists in Zimbabwe, a country of about 16 million people. After the suicide of a young woman who couldn’t get to his office in Harare, he started looking for a better way to reach depressed young mothers.
Both Johnson, who is one of the co-founders of Sankofa Holistic Counseling Services in Oakland, and Dr. Jeannie Celestial, a Filipino psychologist in private practice, said it was critical to recognize and incorporate culturally specific customs and sources of support for their clients. While they are both credentialed in classic one-on-one office visit therapies, each spoke of the importance of healing in community.
Rather than focusing on “the struggle,” Johnson works to immerse her clients in “Black joy” and understanding where they are coming from. “The question is not, what is wrong with you, but what has happened to you? That invites context and compassion and looks at strengths. People of African ancestry that are in the most dire of straits — most of us have something that we can grasp onto … It’s learning to pay attention to what got us through.
In March, Celestial led a community healing event at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum to address much more recent trauma: the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta-area murders of eight people, including six Asian women, by a white man who told police he blamed Asian women for his addiction to pornography. This mass killing came during a dramatic increase in anti-Asian violence that appears to have spiked in response to xenophobic pandemic conspiracy theories.
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