Can therapy ease the trauma of U.S. racist attacks and systemic racism? Reuters | May 01, 2021 12:40 AM EDT Tracy Park sits in the park in which she was shouted at with her daughter, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. (Photo : REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson) Chinese-American mental health counselor Monica Band started getting a flood of calls and emails soon after former U.S. President Donald Trump began blaming China for the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. News followed of the killings of six Asian-born spa workers in Atlanta and brutal attacks on people of Asian descent nationwide. Band's mostly Asian-American clients in the Washington, D.C., area have been spat on, called racist names and in one case physically assaulted on a commuter rail line by an assailant yelling, "Go back to China!"