Throughout February, Dr. Nanika Coor will be interviewing Black mental health experts about various issues relating to race and parenting. This week, she interviewed Dr. Abby Hasberry about issues facing trans-racial adoptees. Learn about Dr. Hasberry below, and check out the interview here.
Abby Hasberry is a therapist, author, and educator, working with clients in Texas. Throughout her career she has used her education and experiences to help others develop themselves personally and professionally. She considers herself a lifetime learner who loves learning formally through research and training and informally from my interactions with people. She has lived and traveled all over the world, and loves to experience new places and cultures. In addition to being a wife and mom, she’s also a transracial adoptee and a birth mom, and has navigated the reunion journey for both identities.
Her primary therapy specialties are adoption with focus on transracial adoptees, birth mothers, adolescents and young adults, racial identity development and racial trauma, and relationships. She’s been trained in Brainspotting and narrative therapy and believes that the client is the expert in their own life.
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Hello Sleep
A practical and compassionate guide to repairing your relationship with sleep
For the twenty-five million Americans who struggle with insomnia, each night feels like a battle with their racing minds instead of a blissful surrender into sleep. Hello Sleep is a guide for the tired but wired people who just want sleep to be easy. Dr. Jade Wu, an internationally recognized behavioral sleep medicine specialist, walks you through the science of how the brain sleeps (or doesn’t); shares stories from the clinic of real people’s journeys to better sleep; and lays out a step-by-step program for overcoming insomnia and letting go of sleeping pills.
