Book Event - The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care
Thu, Apr 23
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
What does it truly cost to heal in silence? Join author Ashley McGirt-Adair in conversation with moderator Marline Francois-Madden as they explore racial trauma and the urgent need for culturally responsive mental health care.
Time & Location
Apr 23, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
About the Book
In The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care, veteran psychotherapist and trauma specialist Ashley McGirt-Adair delivers an effective roadmap for culturally responsive mental health care that acknowledges, understands, and begins to heal the ways racial bias and stereotypes infiltrate counseling. Blending contemporary research, practical tools, and searing personal stories, McGirt-Adair offers both a personal narrative and a comprehensive guide to more equitable mental health care.
The Cost of Healing in Silence offers techniques for culturally responsive care that demonstrates how mental health care can be improved by offering therapy that is reflective of and sensitive to a range of identities. McGirt-Adair helps readers uncover the impacts of racial trauma and navigate the scars it leaves behind, offering culturally attuned techniques for healing and restoration that honor identity and community.
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