"I feel really proud to be a Black therapist." - Lucy Joy Such a Gorgeous Paradox

Content warning: explicit language is used in this episode, including an example of racist language.

Lucy is a passionate Creative Arts Psychotherapist who offers a different unique way to support children to find creative ways to communicate and express themselves. Lucy is also a Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapist (DDP informed) and has a special focus on adoption and foster care issues derived from her own personal experiences.

Lucy specialises in working with children who are impacted by developmental trauma and uses DDP to support children to make sense of things that have happened in their past to allow them to move forward into the next chapter of their lives. She works together with a child and their parent/carer to support them to have the best possible relationship with each other.

References:


Dr Nadine Burke Harris - Adverse Childhood Experiences
Drs Kenneth and Mamie Clark - "The Doll Test"
Dr Mary Ainsworth - The Strange Situation
Andrew Curry - "The Negro Worker and the White Client: A Commentary on the Treatment Relationship", Social Casework (1964)



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