Los Angeles, May 26, 2009
Nakeyshaey M. Allen, affectionately known as the Hip-Hip Therapist™, is bringing her unique approach to practice to the Los Angeles helping professional community. On Saturday, July 18, the Hip-Hop Therapist™ and her team will facilitate Los Angeles's first annual Hip-Hop Therapy Seminar. This seminar will focus on the concept of using Hip-Hop music and culture to engage high risk youth in educational and therapeutic interventions. This approach to practice stems from how often helping professionals contend that their youth clients are the most difficult to engage in an intervention. Nakeyshaey states that what often hinders ones ability to engage their youth clients is their inability to relate to their client, lack of creativity, and knowledge of their client's environment. Since Hip-Hop is considered a young, urban, internationally mainstream culture that chronicles the life view and experiences of youth, why not explore the power of Hip-Hop in an intervention with high risk youth?
Sponsored by REALTalk Enterprises, this seminar will emphasize Nakeyshaey's creativity and how she has used all aspects of Hip-Hop music and culture to engage youth and young adults in interventions by way of the approach, Hip-Hop Therapy ® (HHT). Over the past seven years, Nakeyshaey has used HHT as a innovative and culturally sensitive approach that incorporates traditional therapeutic approaches such as music therapy, cognitive and behavioral therapies, relational therapy, solution-focused therapy, and narrative therapy – while fostering the inclusion of Hip-Hop music and culture. By utilizing aspects of the traditional therapeutic approaches, HHT introduces and analyzes Hip-Hop music, its lyrics, and culture as it relates to the person in the therapeutic, educational, or community development intervention. Analyzing Hip-Hop lyrics engages participants, stimulates discussion, and critically analyzes the social, political, economic, environmental content, as well as one's own life issues, struggles, and experiences.
This Hip-Hop Therapy seminar is internationally recognized and described as dynamic, hands on, informative, raw, and thought provoking. It is ideal for those who are genuinely concerned about how to engage youth in interventions, such as parents, social workers, psychologists, law enforcement, psychiatrists, therapists, gang interventionists, teachers, youth counselors, youth mentors, case managers, mental health professionals, public health professionals, youth policy makers, judges, attorneys, guardian ad litems, child protection workers, family court officials, probation/parole officers, clergy, youth program funders, charitable organizations, Rappers, DJs, and other members of the Hip-Hop community/industry. This seminar is also a great example of opportunity in bringing diverse entities together for a common cause, our youth!
The Hip-Hop Therapist™ has worked with thousands of youth, young adults, and helping professionals all over the United States and abroad. If you would like to learn more about this innovative intervention and how it can be incorporated into your program, please call the Hip-Hop Therapist ™ team at 310-601-3056 or toll free at 1-866-501-HIPP (4477). Also, for more information about on the 1st Annual Hip-Hop Therapy Seminar in Los Angeles on Saturday, July 18, 2009, please contact Shonte Reeves at 323-901-6555, shonte@thehiphoptherapist.com, or visit www.thehiphoptherapist.com/WorkshopRegistration.
About The Hip-Hop Therapist:
While feeling misunderstood and abandoned, in 1992, Nakeyshaey learned that our society has an overwhelming tendency to blame youth for its social ills and problems. Determined to overcome her own trials as an emancipated foster youth and adolescent single parent, she vowed to get real and her life right so that could actively advocate for youth and youth culture. Today, Nakeyshaey M. Allen, affectionately known as the Hip-Hop Therapist ™, is an international clinical social work consultant, social therapist, educator, published author, trainer, life coach, and the Founder and CEO of the "Hip-Hop Therapy Foundation (HHTF)". The HHTF supports non profit organizations that facilitate programs that use Hip-Hop music and culture to engage high risk youth and young adults.
About REALTalk Enterprises:
Established in 2007, REALTalk Enterprises (RTE) is a specialized Social Wellness Coaching, Training, and Consulting firm that facilitates mature and REAL interventions designed to produce satisfying career and life adjustments for youth, young adults, families, and the helping professionals that provide services to them. RTE developed out of response to the lack of REAL dialogue around the REAL socioeconomic, legal, cultural, educational, emotional, behavioral, and mental health issues that continuously impact youth, young adults, and people of color populations in disenfranchised communities throughout Los Angeles County and abroad.
Press Contact:
Nakeyshaey M. Allen, MS, MSW, LCSW
The Hip-Hop Therapist™
468 N. Camden Drive
Suite 280L
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Email: ask@thehiphoptherapist.com
Websites: www.thehiphoptherapist.com and www.askthehiphoptherapist.com
Phone: 310-601-3056
Toll Free: 866-501-HIPP (4477)
REALTalk Enterprises
8306 Wilshire Blvd., #767
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Website: www.realtalkenterprises.com
Phone: 323-901-6555
