🧬Collective Trauma - with Health Psychologist Dr Ravi Gill #intergenerationaltrauma #healinggenerations
This video explores collective trauma: when communities, cultures or nations experience devastating shared events such as pandemics, war, colonisation or systemic oppression. When these experiences remain unresolved, their impact can be passed down through stories, behaviours and even biology, shaping how future generations relate to safety, trust and identity. Collective trauma may show up as unexplained fears, silence around certain topics, inherited beliefs about danger or scarcity, or repeated cycles of struggle that echo ancestral survival strategies. Awareness is the first step, and therapeutic approaches such as family systems and narrative therapy can help unpack inherited pain, while communities rebuild resilience by reclaiming language, rituals and connection.
Dr Ravi Gill is a HCPC-registered Health Psychologist and a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS). She completed a Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology, alongside postgraduate training in Psychology Health and Behaviour and Health Psychology. Ravi has worked in mental health since 2011 across the NHS and private sector, supporting adults with complex mental and physical health needs, including anxiety, depression, psychosis, bipolar disorder and long-term health conditions. Her research and clinical interests include cultural identity, health communication, dual diagnosis and improving physical health outcomes for people with mental health difficulties. Ravi currently works within NHS community services with older adults and regularly delivers training on mental health awareness, crisis management and stress, alongside volunteering with charitable organisations to support those experiencing emotional distress.
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