Industry Shakers
Therapy Is Failing Large Swaths of Americans. Jennifer Mullan Has a Fix
Working in the US health-care system disaffected Mullan, a clinical psychologist. She’s taking the industry to task via Decolonizing Therapy, an organization—and now, a book.
Jennifer Mullan at home in Montclair, New Jersey.
Photographer: Nathan Bajar for Bloomberg Pursuits
In her forthcoming book, Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma and Politicizing Your Practice, Jennifer Mullan holds her profession to account.
A longtime psychologist and counselor at New Jersey City University, the 45-year-old Garden State native had grown frustrated with being able to provide care only on a small scale. Her work was burning her out, and she was overwhelmed by the fact that, for every person she could help, countless more were struggling.