“To Be of Use” – British book launch – September 18, 2025
Australian Book Launch Reflections – October 15, 2025
From Sekneh Hammoud
From Jill Faulkner
Here’s a dialogue with Michael Brennan, of Rochester NY. A spirited, big-hearted and act of resistance itself in the moment we are in at the intersections of power:
Street Side: The Official Street Medicine Institute Student Coalition Podcast October 5, 2025
Resisting Burnout through Collective Care with Vikki Reynolds, PhD.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Y5AtTh3sOIcsqFiBUXmLj?si=-S_xmeuES92syfYWxs9BrA
Let’s talk about burnout! Join us for an amazing discussion with Dr. Vikki Reynolds. Vikki works as a Consultant, Facilitator and Supervisor in Team Development, Resisting Burnout and Sustainability, ‘Trauma’ and Witnessing Resistance to Violence and Oppression, and a Supervision of Solidarity. As a Clinical Supervisor and Therapeutic Supervisor Vikki is informed by narrative and collaborative therapy, and provides individual and group Clinical Supervision to therapists and community workers. She is the author of “Justice-Doing at The Intersections of Power: Community Work, Therapy and Supervision. “
Activist Orientations and Histories of Liberatory Practice and Revolutionary Love: A Conversation with Vikki Reynolds, Abby Chow, and Bhupie Dulay
This conversation was recorded as part of the Leaning into Liberatory Practice Summit 2024 by Prospect Counselling + Training. Both Abby and Bhupie are therapists, supervisors, and consultants. And Prospect is a POC-led counselling practice dedicated to providing accessible and exceptional counselling to SDQTBIPOC+ communities while disrupting the capitalist values currently upholding standard clinical training programs.
https://www.prospectcounselling.ca/
August 29, 2025 Interview on CBC’s Daybreak North with Carolina de Ryk for International Overdose Awareness Day
Systemic Lives – Vikki Reynolds in conversation with Shila Rashid Sep 20, 2024
Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice and Everything is Connected Press are pleased to host the SYSTEMIC LIVES PODCAST. Vikki Reynolds talks with Shila Rashid about her family and their influences in her life, learning from and with community, how she balances activism and enjoyment
Audio only version at https://www.buzzsprout.com/2357977/episodes/16266568
Deconstructing the Trauma Industry: Dialogue with Vikki Reynolds & John Wilson Oct 10, 2024
In this compelling conversation, Vikki Reynolds and John Wilson explore the crucial topic of deconstructing the trauma industry, highlighting the need to challenge mainstream narratives that overlook the social and political contexts of harm. Vikki delves into the importance of addressing systemic violence, colonization, and the ethics of therapeutic practice. Together, they examine how therapists can remain genuinely helpful while navigating the complex dynamics of power in therapeutic and societal settings.
Jodie Rawlings, Co-Director of Anna Freud Mental Health Charity in London UK, & Vikki discuss engaging in community work from the position of solidarity, justice-doing and ethical challenges and opportunities. They address the role of witnessing resistance in work alongside communities impacted by ‘trauma’ and oppression. Aug 31, 2024
Robert van Hennik and Cinthe Lemmens in a lively conversation with Vikki Reynolds for NVRG, BVRGS, NDC2 – May 20 2024
Vikki Reynolds and, Seff Pinch and Cassandra Smith in dialogue part 1
Vikki Reynolds and, Seff Pinch and Cassandra Smith in dialogue part 2
These 2 videos are a 2023 dialogue of Vikki Reynolds with Seff Pinch and Cassandra Smith of the Knowledge Translation Training Facilitator team at the Dr Peter centre. They provide a framework for the Dr Peter Centre’s practice of trauma and violence informed training for trainers.
Centering Social Justice in Practice: Vikki Reynolds talks on solidarity, activism and community.
April 7, 2023
In this episode we speak with the ever inspiring Vikki Reynolds Phd who talks with us about her ongoing work and process of social justice, direct action and activism. Vikki shares personal and professional insights on her commitment to justice doing, decolonisation and living and working in an ethical way. We hear her dedication to addressing inequality, power structures and discrimination through aligning her values with everyday actions and the importance of sustaining oneself through this work.
Vikki Reynolds interviewed by Natasha Sanders-Kay for SubTerrain part 1
Video interview around issues of politicization of forgiveness, and possibilities of transformation of accountable community practices that centre the person harmed and resist carceral logics and practices. This video informed Natasha’s article:
Reynolds, Vikki & Natasha Sanders-Kay (2023).The F Word: Vikki Reynolds on the Politics of Forgiveness. Interview conducted by Natasha Sanders-Kay, SubTerrain #92. p. 44-47.
Vikki Reynolds interviewed by Natasha Sanders-Kay for SubTerrain part 2
Video interview around issues of politicization of forgiveness, and possibilities of transformation of accountable community practices that centre the person harmed and resist carceral logics and practices. This video informed Natasha’s article:
Reynolds, Vikki & Natasha Sanders-Kay (2023).The F Word: Vikki Reynolds on the Politics of Forgiveness. Interview conducted by Natasha Sanders-Kay, SubTerrain #92. p. 44-47.
Workshop with Vikki Reynolds & What’s Next for Courage to Act
On August 18th, 2021 from 1-3 pm EST, participants had a chance to hear from Dr. Vikki Reynolds, a renowned activist/therapist who works from a decolonizing framework to bridge the worlds of social justice activism with community work and therapy. Vikki led a workshop on solidarity, collective care, and sustainability as a means of responding to gender-based violence.
Interview with Metalogos Systemic Therapy Journal
Vikki talking to members of the Organising Committee of Metalogos’ Day Event June 2021.
Do You Have A Culture Of Collective Accountability?
Podcast Interview with Dr. Michelle McQuaid
In this week’s episode, we explore how to find our zone of fabulousness and the power of collective accountability in the face of work experiences that can lead to “burnout”.
AFTA Keynote 2019 Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC
Justice-Doing with each other: Doing Dignity and respect amidst the darkness of our work
Vikki’s work bridges the worlds of social justice activism and community work, bringing teachings from communities of struggle with histories of solidarity and ‘shouldering each other up’ in dark times. These communities are under attack from structural oppressions, mean spirited and cruel politics.
Vikki will consider these reflexive questions: How can we hold onto respect and dignity for each other when we’re struggling? How can we hold onto our solidarity and our fabulous and painful histories of joint struggle against multiple oppressions including colonialism, white supremacy, legislated poverty, hetero-patriarchy, capitalism and the prison industrial complex? How do we stay in dialogue, with respect, across time, without getting caught up in using power-over practices or re-enacting the abuses of power we are fighting against? How do we enact the analysis and justice-doing we want to create more of? How can we nurture ‘Cultures of Critique’, embrace hopeful scepticism, build solidarity and enact our collective ethics as social justice movements? When resisting powers that work to divide us, how do we enact collective accountability, embrace groundless solidarity and infinite responsibility, and co-create an ethical stance of believed-in hope?
Reflections/critiques:
I am honoured by the following generative and important reflections and critiques of my AFTA keynote by three allies who generously contributed to this project:
Jessica ChenFeng PhD, LMFT, is Associate Professor of Medical Education and Associate Director of Physician Vitality at Loma Linda University, and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor. Her research, writing, and clinical work centers around sociocontextual issues such as gender and power, Asian American identity, and Christian spirituality. Most recently, she co-authored the book, Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist. Jessica identifies as a second-generation Taiwanese American liberative educator and lives in Montclair, California, with her husband, their young toddler, and miniature Schnauzer. She loves trees, sourdough bread baking, connecting over coffee, and lightly sweetened jasmine milk tea.
Travis Heath is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He has practiced in Los Angeles, California, is currently a licensed psychologist working in private practice in Denver, Colorado, and is co-founder of Rocky Mountain Narrative Therapy Center (RMNTC). The work he has been focused on includes shifting from a multicultural approach to counseling to one of cultural democracy that invites people to heal in mediums that are culturally near. Writing he has contributed to has focused on the use of rap music in narrative therapy, working with persons entangled in the criminal justice system in ways that maintain their dignity, narrative practice stories as pedagogy, and a co-created questioning practice called reunion questions. His practice has been apprenticed by David Epston, substantially influenced by the work of Makungu Akinyela, and inspired by collaborators such as marcela polanco, Tom Carlson, Sasha Pilkington, and Kay Ingamells. He has been fortunate enough to run workshops and speak about his work in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Norway, United Kingdom, and United States. He is scheduled to teach in Auckland, New Zealand in November, Mumbai, India in January 2020, and Ystad, Sweden in August 2020
Navid Zamani is a licensed Marriage and Family therapist practicing in San Diego. His work is structured around supporting families experiencing domestic violence, and conceptualizes these experiences from a poststructural, decolonial feminism situated in Narrative practices. His interests in counseling, philosophy, and music are blended together with an interest in relational ethics, the politics of revolutionary love, and leaning into complexity. He currently teaches at San Diego State University and is the Head of Clinical Services at License to Freedom, a non-profit that supports refugees and immigrants from the Middle East who are experiencing domestic violence issues.
Practice and Research as Activism. Vikki Reynolds in conversation with Leah Salter
from Murmurations Journal.
Resisting the neutral and medicalised language of psychology
Radio Interview with 3CR Community Radio in Melbourne, Australia
Recent Dulwich Centre projects:
Resisting Calling-Out Culture: “Leaning in” with respect and dignity.
Haciendo justicia entre nosotres. Apoyándose en dignidad y respeto subtitles by PRANAS Chile
Influence and critique of Intersectional Feminism in Therapy and Community Work
Resisting Burnout With Justice-Doing Part 1: Collective Care & Ethical Pain
Resisting Burnout With Justice-Doing Part 2: “Trauma” & Resistance
Resisting Burnout with Justice-Doing Part 3: Client-Centered Responses to Burnout
Resisting Burnout With Justice-Doing Part 4: Sustainability & Transformation
Resisting Burnout with Justice Doing
Family and Community Services, Practice Conference
New South Wales, Australia | September 7-8, 2016
Vikki Reynolds on Dignity
Center for Response Based Practice
Vancouver, Canada | April 19, 2017
Justice-Doing in therapy & community work- Vikki Reynold & Mike Boucher
Re-authoring Teaching, Inc.
The Collab Salon | November 2016
“Zone of Fabulousness” Q & A with Vikki Reynolds
University of Calgary, Faculty of Social Work
Calgary, Canada | September 2016
Shona Russell & Vikki Reynolds interview
Re-authoring Teaching, Inc.
The Collab Salon | June 2016
Radical Therapist Podcast #15: Activism in Therapy: An Ethic of Witnessing w/ Vikki Reynolds, PhD
February 14, 2016
Keynote, Social Justice Activism & Community Work: Tensions Points of Connection & Hopeful Scepticism
Center for Response Based Practice, Mind the Gap Conference
Vancouver, Canada | 2015
Honouring Women’s Resistance to Violence and Oppression
Hoopla, A Women’s Health Carnival organized by Positive Women’s Network in partnership with WAVAW and Options for Sexual Health
Vancouver, Canada | October 9, 2014
Film, Under the Rainbow
BC Poverty Reduction Coalition
British Columbia, Canada | 2014
Jackie Wilgress and Vikki Reynolds reflect on Vikki’s training ‘Justice Doing’
Family Worker Training & Development Programme
Vancouver, Canada | October 22, 2013
Resisting and transforming rape culture: An activist stance for therapeutic work with men who have used violence
Working With Men Who Use Violence, A Talking Circle
Parramatta, Australia | October 2013
Keynote, Being Imperfect Allies: Addressing power and being accountable
British Columbia Teachers’ Federation Conference, Our Social Justice Movement: Inspiring schools and communities
Richmond, Canada | April 16, 2011
Resisting burnout in feminist activism
Interview on the F Word August 1, 2011 (Opens in new window)
Vikki Reynolds PhD RCC 