Colonialism, Narcissism, and the Therapy Room

Linda Thai is a trauma therapist and educator who specializes in brain and body-based modalities for addressing complex developmental trauma. Linda has worked with thousands of people from all over the world to promote mindfulness, recover from trauma, and tend to grief as a means of self-care, with a special focus on the experiences of adult children of refugees and immigrants. She has assisted internationally renowned psychiatrist and trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk with his private small group psychotherapy workshops aimed at healing attachment trauma, and holds a Master of Social Work with an emphasis on the neurobiology of attachment and trauma. Linda has studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Havening Touch, Flash Technique, and structural dissociation of the personality, and offers the Safe and Sound Protocol, yoga, and meditation within her practice. Working on the traditional lands of the Tanana Athabascan people in Fairbanks, Alaska, she is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels.