Join us as we explore what it show up as both clinicians and activists in this tense political moment.
CPA-NA has long held and explored a point of significant tension in our field - what does it mean to be both clinician and activist? How do we maintain our work as clinical professionals with utmost ethical integrity, as the conditions of our lives and countries undergo rapid and profound change?
As we witness both ICE assaults and the extraordinary Minneapolis resistance - the worst and the best of human agency - many of our members have been reaching out to learn more about and discuss the parameters of our professional work, expanding this conversation beyond the boundaries of climate psychology, to meet our political moment.
Join us for a members only event featuring a conversation between Traci Yoder (from the Movement Counselors Network) and CPA-NA member, Rebecca Hyman where they will talk about what it means to bear witness, offer psychic sanctuary and take action as the US political system careens into crisis. After their discussion, we will have break out conversations for more in-depth and personal exploration.
Rebecca Hyman is a trauma therapist in private practice in Portland Oregon. She writes the newsletter Therapy for Social Change, where she provides tools and strategies to combat the impact of structural violence and oppression on mental health. She’s been engaged in behind the scenes organizing in Virginia, Georgia, and Oregon. An expert in gender and critical theory, she was formerly a professor of English and women studies. She’s offered workshops to therapists and community members on patriarchy and white supremacy, and has taught masters and doctoral level courses on critical theory and social justice.
Traci Yoder (she/her) serves as Co-Director of the Movement Counselors Network. She is a Brooklyn-based organizer and psychoanalyst with over twenty years of experience supporting activists and social movements. She holds a MA in Anthropology from the University of Florida and received her psychoanalytic training at the National Psychological Association of Psychoanalysts. Traci worked as the Director of Research and Education at the National Lawyers Guild from 2014-2026, where she organized national coalitions of movement attorneys, legal activists, and law students and faculty. Traci has volunteered with numerous activist bookstores, archives, publications, and mental health initiatives, such as the Wooden Shoe Books collective, Interference Archive, NLG Review, and the NYC Free Clinic.
Free and for members only