In this episode we speak with Eden Teng, MA, LMHCA, IMH-E® on impacts of war and genocide on the survivors and their children and how the 2020 Pandemic has impacted all of us and the similarities of the two events. **Trigger Warning: this episode discusses war and violence.

Eden Teng, MA, LMHCA, IMH-E® (she/her) is a first generation Cambodian American psychotherapist at Eden Holistic Therapy in Seattle, Washington, on the unceded traditional land of the Coast Salish & Duwamish Indigenous People. Eden earned her Master of Arts in Existential Phenomenological Psychology from Seattle University and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Washington. Within the degree, she completed a year-long clinical internship at Navos as an Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Therapist where she supported parents & children under the Child-Parent Psychotherapy model with issues of attachment, separation, trauma, grief & loss. Prior to becoming a psychotherapist she worked in various community non-profit agencies to support marginalized populations, & immigrant & refugee families' mental health & social-emotional well-being. Eden’s therapeutic approach and framework is through a social justice, anti-oppressive, culturally inclusive and decolonizing lens. She finds tremendous joy in supporting her clients to unearth, discover & put words to their own unique experiences where social oppression & pressures have caused undue harm, pain & suffering, & to support them to claim their power and voice.

Racial Trauma Disclaimer by Dr. Han Ren
Music Credit: Blue Wind Blow by Blue Dot Sessions