Healing from Intergenerational Trauma

NFCC's Guide Through the Seasons of Mental Wellness

Season 3 is all about healing... In this episode, we talk about trauma inherited from family members and how we can move forward and leave pain and baggage that isn’t ours to carry, behind.

About our Guest

Damilola Adesina, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and owner of Ireti Counseling and Wellness. Dami’s passion is helping others see that their situation is not hopeless. She believes that when individuals are willing to put in the work, true and transformative change can occur in their personal life.

Connect with Dami at https://www.ireticounseling.com/

Take the challenge!

Email Dami at [e-mail] and let her know you listened to this episode. She’ll reply with a family genogram template.

Here’s the book Dami would read again (and again): Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel

Meet our Host, Anna Crain, LMSW

Anna Crain is a Licensed Master of Social Work and Nick Finnegan Counseling Center's, Outreach Counselor. Anna holds a bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University (TCU) and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern California (USC). She has worked in a variety of settings spending majority of her time serving as a non-profit administrator, school administrator and school social worker. She has had the opportunity to help clients work through several challenges such as anxiety, grief and loss, ADHD, ASD, life-stressors and trauma both individually and through groups.

Anna currently works with children, families and some young adults, through one-on-one counseling and also speaks to groups throughout the Houston area, through outreach talks.

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Extra special thanks the people who made this project possible:

• Our wonderful Season 3 guest experts

• Our production team at 3Wire Creative

• Our editor, Jacel Dickson

•and the amazing leadership team and supporters at Nick Finnegan Counseling Center in Houston, TX.

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Until next time...