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[social_warfare] Lately, I have been thinking about one of therapy’s dirty little secrets. Therapy can be life changing, memorable and leave indelible marks ...
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B. Nilaja Green, PhD
Dr. B. Nilaja Green. PhD writes, speaks and engages at the intersections of individual psychological distress and collective sociocultural oppression. As an Atlanta based Licensed Clinical & Community Psychologist, Dr. Green is certified in trauma informed care and delivering specialized culturally responsive trauma treatments to vulnerable populations such as military veterans, Black women, and members of the LGBTQ+ community through her private practice, Atlanta Trauma Therapy & Consulting. She has engaged in several community level initiatives, including collaborating with the mayor of East Point, in Atlanta to create community level conversations addressing, issues of race, class, history and equity. Having made appearances on several podcasts and in print media, Dr. Green strives to share her message of culturally relevant, holistic mental health practice on various platforms. In service to her profession, she supervises, writes, leads workshops and trainings asking clinicians to cultivate their own radical introspective practice and to approach care of clients with greater cultural humility. In addition to her formal training and years of clinical experience, Dr. Green has also incorporated her love of creative writing and journaling into her clinical work. In service to the community, she created an award winning, community writing group for healers that ran for four years in the Atlanta area, out of which she has developed The Radical Introspection Framework for Therapists and trainees. As a foundation for her career, Dr. Green received a B.A. in English & Psychology from Georgetown University and her doctoral degree in clinical and community psychology from Georgia State University. She completed her internship and postdoctoral training at Yale University, Department of Psychiatry in New Haven, CT. She has been featured in the AJC and made appearances in the Huffington Post and Teen Vogue as well as on several podcasts addressing trauma, racial justice and the Strong Black woman paradigm. She is the creator of Introspective Journal, an innovative tool to help therapists take better care of themselves, deepen self-awareness and create masterful therapy. In addition to managing her practice, she holds an adjunct professor role at Emory University. She currently lives in Atlanta with her spouse and their stubborn older dog, Bean and new puppy JB. She can be reached here: drbnilaja@atlantatraumatherapy.com;
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