From Survival to Joy: Decolonizing Training Track
Online Training for Clinicians of Color
About this Training
Training Title: Revolutionary Joy: Rhythm and Processing (RAP) Strategies and Complex Trauma
Date: March 13, 2026
Time: 10AM-12 PM EST
Complex PTSD and dissociation are understudied topics and most therapists do not learn about them in grad school. We might have heard about racial trauma, but what do you do when all of these show up in your therapy office at the same time?
Rhythm and Processing (RAP) Strategies is an approach based off EMDR therapy’s Adaptive Information processing Model that is meant to eliminate the mental health consequences of complex racial trauma.
Using Africentric principles of change, memory reconsolidation and predictive processing theory we will learn how to use images, music, ancestors, and cultural strengths to help therapists to learn powerful self-care tools, and heal deep rooted suffering in a joyful and compassionate way.
Training Title: Learning from the Past and the Present: Decolonizing Therapy
Date: March 30, 2026
Time: 5-7 PM EST
This training will explain principles and practices of decolonizing therapy. This training will review the history and major contributors of decolonizing work with an emphasis on its clinical application with communities that experience oppression and state sanctioned violence. It will be taught through an intersectional, anti-oppressive, liberatory lens and will uplift the strengths, resilience, and wisdom of communities of color that experience oppression.
About Your Trainers
David Archer, PSW, MFT, MSW, a Black Jamaican African Canadian father and husband from Montreal, Canada (Tiohtià:ke). He is a professional social worker, couple and family therapist, anti-racist psychotherapist, and EMDRIA Certified Approved EMDR Trainer. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Concordia University and has received several awards, including a full scholarship through the Canadian federal government’s SSHRC doctoral fellowship.
With over 17 years of experience, David has treated diverse client populations, including those suffering from substance use disorders, eating disorders, and other challenging health concerns. In his private practice, he specializes in treating complex PTSD and complex racial trauma using Africentric principles, predictive processing theory, and memory reconsolidation-based approaches.
Mayowa Obasaju, PhD (she/her) is a Black, Nigerian-born, American-raised clinical and community, trauma- and healing-focused, womanist and liberation psychologist, trainer, and educator. Mayowa brings over 15 years of clinical, organizing, teaching, and training experience centered on the complex, intersectional experiences of BIPOC communities. As the founder of Connected Roots Counseling and Consulting, she provides therapy, consultation, and training grounded in decolonized practice, cultural rootedness, and community care. In her practice, Mayowa works with people who experience trauma, oppression, and grief. Mayowa also works with birthing people, individuals navigating infertility, and those experiencing postpartum mental health challenges-making critical connections between institutional racism, cissexism, and sexism, reproductive justice, and the preconception, pregnancy, birthing, postpartum, and parenting stages.
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