In addition to being a psychotherapist and clinical social worker with individuals, and consistent with my values of being a politicized healer, I am dedicated to community centered and integrative practices of care, support, collaboration, and consultation.
If you are a professional, a community member, an organization or business, an activist or healer, and interested in collaboration, consultation, or training, please contact me to discuss what you have in mind and to request a copy of my curriculum vitae. Here are some of the services I offer:
Workshops and Training
Consultation regarding my Clinical and Professional Specialties
Facilitation and Critical Intergroup Dialogues
Restorative Justice and Mediation Services
Individual and Systems Advocacy
Expressive Arts Community Projects & Groups
Radical Justice Frameworks in Organizational Development
Community and Equity Centered Strategic Planning
Research & Academic Writing Support
The following are specialties for community work that I have direct experience and practice with. This is not a comprehensive list or detail of my professional skills, knowledge, and experiences. As a social worker with over twenty years of experience in social services, advocacy, and activism, working within collective, grass-roots, and non-profit organizations, state and county systems, boards and commissions, working with community is a passion in addition to my work with individuals. Please contact me if you would like to discuss a collaboration, consultation, or training and if would like a copy of my curriculum vitae and references.
Topics
- Culturally responsive and integrative healing
- Multicultural mental health and Critical and Liberation Psychology
- Trauma informed and healing centered care for BIPoC and disabled folks
- Intimate partner violence and abuse
- Interpersonal violence and abuse in the caregiving relationship
- Abuse of resilient adults made vulnerable by systems and ableism
- Psychiatric and institutional abuse survivors
- Trauma and social work with people who are neurodiverse and/or intellectually/cognitively disabled
- Vicarious/secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, burnout
- Healing through creative and expressive arts modalities include visual art, collage, expressive writing and poetry, music, movement, 3D assemblage, altar making, mask making, photography, and weaving
- Chronic illness and chronic pain
- Support and healing for suicide survivors
- Fierce embodiment for diverse bodies
- Death doula, end of life transitions
Community Centered and Integrative Practice
- Expressive arts for community centered practices of grieving, loss, and healing
- Victim/Offender mediation
- Transformative justice
- Intergroup and critical dialogue facilitation
- Facilitation for conflict resolution and transformation
- Restorative Justice
- Community Based Participatory Research
Social Justice
- Anti-racism, race consciousness, and racial justice
- Disability Justice and accessibility
- Anti-oppressive social work practices
- Intersectionality
- Microaggressions
- Internalized oppression
- Politicized healing in clinical practice
- Fatphobia and body policing
Systems
- Individual and systems advocacy
- Program management and evaluation
- Non-profit and medical industrial complex
- Organizational development and strategic planning for non-profits
- Community-centered policy advisory
- Consulting on the design and implementation of interventions in human services
- Human Rights Commissions
- Community Bias/Hate Response Teams
- Legal Observation Teams
- Domestic Violence Councils
- Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART)
- Violent Crime Multidisciplinary Teams (MDT)