Dr. Mariel Buqué
DR. MARIEL BUQUÉ IS AN AFRO-DOMINICAN, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-TRAINED PSYCHOLOGIST, INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA EXPERT, AND THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK BREAK THE CYCLE
Dr. Mariel Buqué is an Afro-Dominican, Columbia University-trained Psychologist, intergenerational trauma expert, and the author of the book Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma. Her clinical framework is holistic and infuses ancient and indigenous healing practices into a modern, comprehensive therapeutic approach. During her clinical training, she co-developed and completed a 3-year immersive holistic mental health care fellowship in collaboration with the United States Health Administration and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where she offered holistic psychotherapy, in the Spanish language, across multidisciplinary clinics in the Columbia hospital system, including cardiology, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, and primary care.
She has utilized her training in holistic care to integrate holistic practices, like sound bath meditation and breathwork, into therapy, which has helped to deepen trauma healing for her clients. She additionally provides healing workshops to Fortune 100 companies including Google, Twitter, Capital One, and Meta and lectures within the psychology department of Columbia University. Dr. Buqué is widely sought out for her clinical expertise and trauma approach and has been featured on major media outlets including The Today Show, Good Morning America, and ABC News. During her doctoral training and then within her clinical position as a psychologist at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center, Dr. Buqué was able to see the profound impact of intergenerational trauma, which led to her adopting a more holistic lens to healing layered trauma. This is now the underlying methodology behind her proprietary intergenerational healing approach. Dr. Buqué now makes her healing practices accessible through her book Break the Cycle, her newsletter, and a growing community on social media. As such, she has been named as a School of Greatness 100 Greatest People Doing Good in 2022 and an inaugural Verywell Mind 25 Mental Health Champion.
Her book can be found at https://sites.prh.com/breakthecyclebook.
Workshop Two - Mariel Buque Working Through the Wounds of Generational Trauma
In this talk, Dr. Mariel Buqué will offer an exploration of how intergenerational trauma and the historical imprints it leaves
behind, create emotional wounds that remain etched in our minds, bodies, spirits, and cultures for generations.
Mariel will cover how traumas resulting from genocide, famine, erasure, and marginalization can get carried for
generations and can get carried for generations and the necessary multilevel healing frameworks that need to be
instituted in order to carve a path toward sustainable repair at the individual, familal and communal level.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Gather an understanding of what intergenerational trauma is
2. Learn how intergenerational trauma perpetuates as a multi-level wound
3. Understand what needs to be integrated to work with intergenerational trauma with clients
4. Understand how to approach emotional repair at all levels of wounding
