Mar 30, 2022
In this episode, Cherese Waight
and Helen Neville speak with award winning psychologists Dr.
Candice Hargons and Dr. Nikki Coleman about practicing therapy and
professional work from an anti-oppressive and anti-racist lens.
They share stories about their training and practice, and they talk
about what it means to be authentic in and outside of the therapy
room. Learn more about specific ways mental health settings and the
field of counseling psychology can decolonize their training
efforts.
ABOUT THE
GUESTS
Dr. Candice Nicole Hargons is an
award-winning associate professor of counseling psychology at the
University of Kentucky, where she studies sexual wellness and
healing racial trauma – all with a love ethic. Dr. Hargons is the
creator of the Ally + Accomplice Meditation for Cultivating an
Anti-Racist Mindset and the
Black Lives Matter Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma, which
has been featured in the Huffington Post and Blavity and used by
universities and private practices across the US. She has been
quoted or featured in the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Women's
Health, and other media. She serves on the Board of Directors for
the American Psychological Association and is a Fellow of the
Society of Counseling Psychology. Additionally, Dr. Hargons is the
founder of the Center for Healing
Racial Trauma.
You can follow Dr. Candice Nicole
on IG @dr.candicenicole and learn more at
www.drcandicenicole.com.
Dr. Nikki Coleman is a PsyPact
credentialed licensed psychologist and Sex Self Confidence Coach.
Her expertise includes a diversity, equity, and inclusion
consultant and trainer, writer, podcaster, public speaker, and
therapist. She received her Ph. D. in Counseling Psychology
from the APA-accredited top-ranked program at the University of
Missouri-Columbia in 2002. For over 15 years she was a professor of
Counseling Psychology with over 7 years as a tenured professor.
During that time, she published peer-reviewed articles on
identity and cultural factors impacting young Black adults. Her
business Dr. Nikki Knows is a practice that focuses on the
relational and sexual wellness of Black folx and racial equity
consultation and training for small to mid-size organizations. Dr.
Nikki’s mantra is: “Pleasure is my birthright” and she works to
imbue that to her clients.
You can follow Dr. Nikki on IG
and Twitter @DrNikkiKnows and learn more at
www.DrNikkiKnows.com and https://linktr.ee/drnikkiknows.
GUESTS SELECT
PUBLICATIONS
Dr. Candice Hargons
Select Publications
- Hargons, C. N., Malone, N.,
Montique, C., Dogan, J., Stuck, J., Meiller, C., Sanchez, A.,
Sullivan, Q.-A., Bohmer, C., Curvey, R., Woods, I., Jr., Tyler, K.,
Oluokun, J., & Stevens-Watkins, D. (2022). “White people stress me
out all the time”: Black students define racial trauma.Cultural
Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28(1),
49–57. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000351
- Hargons, C. (2022). Mindfulness
and matter: The Black Lives Matter Meditation for Healing Racial
Trauma. In Beyond White Mindfulness(pp. 98-109).
Routledge.
- Hargons, C., Malone, N. J.,
Montique, C. S., Dogan, J., Stuck, J., Meiller, C., ... &
Stevens-Watkins, D. (2021). Race-based stress reactions and
recovery: Pilot testing a racial trauma
meditation. Journal of Black Psychology,
00957984211034281.
- Hargons, C. N., Dogan, J.,
Malone, N., Thorpe, S., Mosley, D. V., & Stevens-Watkins, D.
(2021). Balancing the sexology scales: A content analysis of Black
women’s sexuality research. Culture, Health &
Sexuality, 23(9), 1287-1301.
- Mosley, D. V., Hargons, C. N.,
Meiller, C., Angyal, B., Wheeler, P., Davis, C., & Stevens-Watkins,
D. (2021). Critical consciousness of anti-Black racism: A practical
model to prevent and resist racial trauma.Journal of Counseling
Psychology, 68(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000430
- Hargons, C. N., Mosley, D. V.,
Meiller, C., Stuck, J., Kirkpatrick, B., Adams, C., & Angyal, B.
(2018). “It feels so good”: Pleasure in last sexual encounter
narratives of black university students. Journal of Black
Psychology, 44(2), 103-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798417749400
- Hargons, C., Mosley, D. V., &
Stevens-Watkins, D. (2017). Studying sex: A content analysis of
sexuality research in counseling psychology. The
Counseling Psychologist, 45(4), 528-546.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000017713756
- Hargons, C., Mosley, D.,
Falconer, J., Faloughi, R., Singh, A., Stevens-Watkins, D., &
Cokley, K. (2017). Black lives matter: A call to action for
counseling psychology leaders. The Counseling
Psychologist, 45(6), 873-901. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000017733048
Dr. Nikki Coleman Select
Publications
- Paquin, J. D., & Coleman, M. N.
(2021). Introduction to the special issue on women and group
work. International Journal of Group
Psychotherapy, 71(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207284.2020.1798667
- Raque, T. L., Mitchell, A. M.,
Coleman, M. N., Coleman, J. J., & Owen, J. (2021). Addressing
racial equity in health psychology research: An application of the
multicultural orientation framework.American Psychologist,
76(8), 1266–1279. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000888
- Coleman, M. N., Reynolds, A. A.,
& Torbati, A. (2020). The relation of Black-oriented reality
television consumption and perceived realism to the endorsement of
stereotypes of Black women.Psychology of Popular Media,
9(2), 184–193. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000223
- Coleman, M. N., Butler, E. O.,
Long, A. M., & Fisher, F. D. (2016). In and out of love with
hip-hop: Saliency of sexual scripts for young adult African
American women in hip-hop and Black-oriented
television. Culture, Health &
Sexuality, 18(10), 1165-1179. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2016.1175029
- Coleman, M. N., Chapman, S., &
Wang, D. C. (2013). An examination of color-blind racism and
race-related stress among African American undergraduate
students. Journal of Black
Psychology, 39(5), 486-504. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798412469226
- Coleman, M. N. (2006). Critical
incidents in multicultural training: An examination of student
experiences. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and
Development, 34(3), 168-182. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2161-1912.2006.tb00036.x
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- Episode Intro/Outro: Mahogany Monette
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