The Story Behind Therapy for Black Girls | Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford (http://www.hellodrjoy.com/) is a licensed psychologist, speaker and the host of the wildly popular mental health podcast, Therapy for Black Girls (https://www.therapyforblackgirls.com/). Her work focuses on making mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women and she delights in using pop culture to illustrate psychological concepts. She has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, Forbes, Bustle, MTV, Huffington Post, Black Enterprise, Refinery29, Teen Vogue, and Essence. Dr. Joy lives in Atlanta, GA with her husband and two sons. In today's conversation, we explore her experiences growing up in a small town, her pursuit of learning, teaching and academic excellence, love of pop culture, and how her awareness of inequities in the way mental health services were offered led her to start her practice and launch Therapy for Black Girls.
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| 0:00.0 | My guest today, Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, is the host of the wildly popular podcast therapy |
| 0:11.4 | for Black Girls. |
| 0:13.0 | She grew up in a small town in the south. |
| 0:15.4 | She described it as being so small that they didn't have a stoplight that had a flashing |
| 0:19.3 | light and you would give directions by counting telephone poles to her dad's photography studio. |
| 0:24.3 | And she had at the earliest age a deep devotion and interest in learning and teaching which |
| 0:30.1 | evolved into a fascination with psychology and eventually mental health services. |
| 0:36.1 | From there as she was pursuing her PhD, she also became really interested in how people |
| 0:40.2 | from different backgrounds, different races experience the world of mental health, mental |
| 0:44.5 | health services and psychology and decided to make her mission to expand access and to |
| 0:50.3 | expand availability and really expand the conversation around mental health and psychology |
| 0:56.4 | which led to her clinical practice and then eventually her podcast. |
| 1:00.6 | So excited to dive into this conversation today. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:16.6 | Fancy a fever tree and vodka. |
| 1:20.4 | Yes, vodka, not gin because this is Fever Tree Mexican Lime Soda. |
| 1:26.5 | Yes, soda, not tonic. |
| 1:29.5 | With Mexican lime and Japanese Yuzu for a zesty refreshing lime soda that's just sweet |
| 1:35.0 | enough, delicious with vodka or on its own. |
| 1:39.5 | Fever Tree Mexican Lime Soda, mixed with the best. |
| 1:44.1 | Now that hits the spot. |
| 1:49.6 | You grew up from what I know in a pretty tiny town in Louisiana. |
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