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Abstract
This dissertation manuscript discusses race-based traumatic stress among Black Graduate Women in higher education settings using the approach Sista Healing Circle Methodology (SCM). Black graduate women in higher educational settings are the focus of this dissertation because history has shown educational spaces have limited “space” for Black Women to be acknowledged in higher education (Bizzell, 2023; Stewart, 2017 & Tuitt 2010). Research demonstrated that Black women often have no outlet to process the racial trauma and oppression they endure inside and outside of educational spaces (Daniel, 2018). Findings from this study will allow counselors to understand how symptoms can present and how Black Women are handling the symptoms as their racial stress increases. Chapter four will consist of a brief reflectivity to inform readers the internal process the researcher had experience before, during and after study. Reflectivity allows the reader to understand the perspective of the research.