"Neutrality Isn't Healing: Naming Whiteness in the Room"

What does it mean when therapy claims to be “neutral”? And who does that neutrality actually protect?

In this episode, Tracy Gantlin-Monroy, MDiv, LPC, challenges the myth of neutrality in clinical spaces—exploring how silence around whiteness, race, power, and culture often reinforces harm. Drawing from her own lived experience as an American Black therapist and her recent training in neuroscience, trauma, and psychotherapy with Dr. Damir del Monte in Poland, Tracy expands the conversation beyond social justice and into the nervous system.

She explores how trauma is processed in the brain and body, how “prediction errors” create openings for healing, and how therapy becomes a new experience that rewires perception—when done with cultural and somatic attunement.