Nokdu Therapy founder Gonji Lee speaks on the Forward Together podcast about the 1992 LA Uprisings (Sa-I-Gu), racial triangulation, and Black & Korean solidarity in Los Angeles.

ADHD is often understood from a white cishetero masculine lens. As a result, the specific and nuanced experiences that BIPOC ADHDers ( as well as LGBTQ+ and femme ADHDers) are often left out of the picture. Read to learn more about how BIPOC ADHDers might experience time blindness, task inertia, rejection sensitivity, and executive functioning difficulties, and how therapy can help.

Many of us find a potential therapist, and then have no idea what to say on a consultation call. Read this article to come up with ideas on how to see if someone's a good match for you. It will guide you on talking about therapist payment options, values, identities, experiences, and training. Scroll to the end to see a longer list of written out questions to ask on a consultation call with a therapist.

Search engines are often not the most effective way to find a therapist that matches your specific needs, as it can be difficult to refine your search. Therapy directories may be the most effecitve to find a potential match. Many directories will help you find therapists based on shared identities (BIPOC, LGBTQIAS2+, ENM, kinky, etc), values (anti-racist, disability justice, abolitionist, decolonial, etc), or location specific (Los Angeles, California, West LA, etc).

This blog walks you through how to find a rad therapist. Whether you have health insurance or want to pay out of pocket, there are different questions you can ask to find the best fit. This is crucial especially if you are BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, neurodivergent, disabled, or have any other marginalized identities that white cis hetero therapists may not be able to hold.

EMDR therapy has shown to be effective in treating a variety of mental health difficulties such as trauma, PTSD, anxiety, and depression by facilitating the brain's natural healing processes. Take a look at this article to find out how it works, and how it could be useful to QTBIPOC and neurodivergent people who might experience complex trauma due to their intersecting identities.

Here is Nokdu’s quick walkthrough to help you better understand the content of DBT - aka the Modules. We break down how DBT might be specifically useful to QTIBIPOC, BIPOC, LGBTQ, and neurodivergent communities.