"Yet another powerful contribution from McKenzie-Mavinga which offers a transformative framework for therapists, individuals and groups navigating the complex emotional landscape of antiblack racism. Using insight from decades of experience, she skilfully weaves personal narrative with professional wisdom, presenting a necessary and timely approach to healing. This book not only challenges traditional ideas of empathy but invites us all to embark on a journey of self-awareness, growth, and compassionate action. Essential reading for anyone dedicated to fostering authentic healing and dismantling racism."

Rotimi Akinsete: Founder & Director, Black Men on the Couch

"Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga places the central theme of anti-Black racism--the distortion of perception and empathy by white individuals, front and centre in this comprehensive commentary of her life's work. She powerfully weaves her own experience, and the experience of many others involved in her work into a transformative call to action for anyone striving to create an anti-racist world."

Eugene Ellis, author of Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All

"Dr Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga's life work illuminates the process of a black empathic approach as a model to heal the recursive life cycle of therapists navigating racialised hurts, slurs, and actions within the circumference and interior of the clients and institutions they work with. It is a must-have companion as a trilogy to the author's two former books. This masterpiece compassionately saves the black psyche from imploding into self-disruption and lovingly makes a stand for self-dignity, knowledge, and empowerment."

Karen Carberry, Head of Family & Systemic Therapy, Orri, UK; Visiting Lecturer, University of Oxford, Doctorate in Clinical Psychology Programme