A Selection of Lucia’s Publications and Podcast Episode Appearances

  • Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

    Edited by Christine Caldwell & Lucia Bennett Leighton

    A timely anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodies.

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  • The Embodied Experience of Microaggressions: Implications for Clinical Practice

    By Rae Johnson, Lucia Bennett Leighton & Christine Caldwell

    This article reviews key concepts in nonverbal communication and traumatology to illustrate how the body is implicated in the transmission of microaggressions

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  • Embodying Activism: Reconciling Injustice through Dance/Movement Therapy

    By Mira Cantrick, Terra Anderson, Lucia Bennett Leighton, & Melanie Warning

    This paper works to radically reconsider how power shows up in the counseling context.

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  • QBT Podcast Episode

    EP22: Disordered Eating and Somatic Therapy with Lucia Bennett, LPC

    As a practitioner of somatic therapy and editor of Oppression and the Body, Lucia Bennett, LPC, helps us dive into the topic of eating disorders and queerness. Lucia also reveals all the ways she is a bona fide lesbian(TM) cat lady and we love her for it.

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  • The Healing Trauma Podcast Episode

    Eating Disorders and Trauma With Lucia Bennett

    On today’s episode somatic therapist Lucia Bennett will be talking about her unique approach to working with people who have eating disorders and Trauma.

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