My current working life feels like an odd combination of immersion in practice, questions, challenges and reading in working with marginalisation, particularly racism – in my work as a trainer, and a relative absence of this in my work as a therapist.
This is, at least in part, because my therapy practice is based in Devon – which has a high degree of white monoculture, whereas my training is more widely based, so more accurately engages with culture and society. I do, however, expect my therapy work to shift, to be asked to work more explicitly with clients’ various marginalisations, and with privilege – partly as things continue to shift and embed in me, and partly as there is a wider waking up to these core aspects of relating…