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Jennifer Mullan

Jennifer Mullan
BornJuly 1978 (age 48)
New Jersey, U.S.
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies (PsyD)
Occupations
  • Author
  • psychologist
Notable workDecolonizing Therapy (2023)
Websitedrjennifermullan.com

Jennifer L. Mullan (born July 1978) is an American author and mental health practitioner known for founding Decolonizing Therapy, an approach to mental health care that critiques Western psychology and incorporates historical, ancestral, and sociopolitical context.[1][2][3] Trained as a clinical psychologist, she is the author of Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice (2023), published by W. W. Norton & Company.[4] She has been called "the Rage Doctor."[2][5]

Early life and education

Mullan is a native of New Jersey.[1] She earned a doctorate in clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.[6] She has described herself as a multiracial, Black-identified woman of Panamanian, Irish, Italian, and Indigenous descent.[7]

Career

Mullan worked for more than two decades as a clinical psychologist, including as a counselor at New Jersey City University.[1][2] In 2017, she began publishing under the name Decolonizing Therapy on Instagram.[2] By 2020, the account had reached roughly 100,000 followers.[5] During the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 racial justice protests, she was cited in national media discussing racial trauma and its psychological effects on Black Americans.[8][5] She later stopped seeing patients to focus on public speaking and writing.[3]

Work

Mullan's approach, which she calls Decolonizing Therapy, holds that mainstream psychotherapy reflects Eurocentric assumptions and can retraumatize people from marginalized communities. It emphasizes historical and intergenerational trauma and situates individual distress within a broader social and political context.[2][9][3] She has argued that conventional clinical training discourages therapists from engaging with clients' histories of racism and cultural trauma.[3] Her work has been referenced in academic writing on decolonial approaches to counselling psychology.[10]

Books

Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice was published by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2023.[4] In a review for the Mental Health Commission of Canada's Catalyst, Simon Gardner described the book as a wide-ranging critique of the mental health system, distinguished by its "feisty, passionate, and challenging voice."[3] A second book, Sacred Rage, has been announced as forthcoming.[11]

Recognition

In 2020, Mullan received Essence magazine's Essential Hero Award in the mental health category.[12]

Personal life

Mullan lives in Montclair, New Jersey.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Therapy Is Failing Large Swaths of Americans. Jennifer Mullan Has a Fix". Bloomberg. May 18, 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Cover Story Issue 04: Dr. Jennifer Mullan Is Decolonizing Therapy". Heal Magazine. September 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e Gardner, Simon (August 2023). "Is It Time to Decolonize Therapy?". The Catalyst. Mental Health Commission of Canada.
  4. ^ a b Mullan, Jennifer (2023). Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-1-324-01916-9.
  5. ^ a b c "How a Black Therapist Is Treating Protest Trauma". GQ. June 10, 2020.
  6. ^ "Jennifer Mullan: On Decolonizing Therapy". California Institute of Integral Studies.
  7. ^ Jennifer Mullan (2025). "What Does It Mean to Decolonize Therapy?". Experience Life (Interview).
  8. ^ "What is racial trauma? How Black therapists are helping patients cope". Today. NBCUniversal. 2020.
  9. ^ Zapata, Karina (February 27, 2020). "Decolonizing mental health: The importance of an oppression-focused mental health system". Calgary Journal.
  10. ^ "Decolonizing counselling psychology: stretching the boundaries of clinical training and practice". Counselling Psychology Quarterly. 2025. doi:10.1080/09515070.2025.2530446.
  11. ^ "Sacred Rage". drjennifermullan.com.
  12. ^ "WATCH: ESSENCE Essential Heroes Awards Highlights Black Mental Health Professionals". Essence.

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