Our 2025 Queer, Social Justice Syllabi

We’re committed to learning, growing, and confronting systems of oppression inside of ourselves in order to dismantle them in our therapy practices and world around us. Here are some of the books on our 2025 reading list. Each month, Rooted Acorn Counseling therapists get together to discuss and dialogue about how to incorporate what we’ve learned from our reading.

• Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan, PsyD

• Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals by Aurora Levins Morales

• What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

• ACT for Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide by Alex Stitt, LMHC

• For Times Such As These: A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year by Rabbi Ariana Katz & Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Radicalized and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

• The Ace and Aro Relationship Guide: Making It Work in Friendship, Love, and Sex by Cody Daigle-Orians