I was interviewed by Rabbi Rami, my colleague at Spirituality and Health Magazine, on an article I wrote for the print magazine on the concept of decolonizing therapy. It was a very interesting discussion about the model of therapy and how it’s changing in the modern world.

Many early therapeutic strategies were developed by privileged white men like Sigmund Freud. They were revolutionary at the time, and there are undoubtedly helpful pieces in them all. But therapies are always a product of the society they come from, and they tend to reinforce the values of that society. When a patient lies on a couch to be judged by a more powerful figure taking notes on them, they are experiencing authority, judgment, and hierarchy, which are all colonial values.