Where I’ve Studied
I attended Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, where I double majored in Social Work and African American Studies. While there, I had the opportunity to study abroad in El Salvador.
I completed my Master’s in Social Work from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, with a primary concentration in Management & Community Organization, a secondary Clinical concentration, with a specialization in Social Action & Community Development.
Where I’ve Worked
I have worked at the following organizations:
Families First Counseling & Psychiatry
EveryMind, Inc
Catholic Charities DC
Baltimore Curriculum Project
YWCA of Metro St. Louis
Springboard to Learning
Where I’ve Learned
I am grateful to have had the opportunity to access many powerful community-based learning opportunities. The following are some of the places and people I have learned from and with over the years that influence how I show-up as a therapist:
Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C
Kindred Wellness
Therapy That Liberates Network & Library
September 2020 through the present
Demystifying the Liberation-Focused Healing Framework
Fall 2021
Therapy That Liberates INTENSIVE
September 2020 through April 2021
Decolonizing Therapy for Black Folk
July 2020
Randall Leonard, LCSW-C
ENBY Consulting
Providing Culturally Appropriate Care for LGBTQ People of Color
July 2023
Tavi Hawn, LCSW-C
Reclaim & Rise Therapy
Ethical Trauma-Informed Care with Transgender and Gender-Expansive Children and Adults
July 2023
White Awake
Eleanor Hancock, David Dean, & Lynda Davis, LCSW-C
Radical Anti-Bias Education: Cultivating True Comrades in Struggle
July – August 2023
Radical Genealogy: Research Skills for Liberatory Ancestral Recovery
June 2023
Marika Heinrichs
Wild Body Somatics
stevie joy leigh
Weaver + Rose Somatics
Embodied Ancestral Inquiry
January through June 2023
Shawn V. Giammattei, Ph.D.
Gender Health Training Institute
Recognizing Bias: Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls in Gender Affirming Care
October 2022
Resmaa Menakem, LICSW
Cultural Somatics Institute
Carlin Quinn, LMFT
Education for Racial Equity
Foundations of Somatic Abolitionism
July 2022
Affirming Letter & Assessment Training
May 2022
Shimon Cohen, LCSW
Doin’ The Work
Charla Cannon Yearwood, LCSW
Connected in Community
(Part 2) Racial Justice and Liberatory Practice:
Applying Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Frameworks
Spring 2022
Janvieve Williams, Dash Harris, Evelyn Alvarez
Radio Caña Negra
AntiBlackness in the Latine Community Institute
December 2020
Dash Harris Machado & Dr. Javier Wallace
AfroLatinx Travel
Black Latin American History & Contemporary Topics
December 2020
Rebecca Davis, MA, CSWA
Shea Lowery, MS, LPC
artic LLC
Advanced Equity Skills for Clinicians
June 2020
African-American Multigenerational Trauma & Implementing Models of Change
Fall 2019
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
Undoing Racism Community Organizing Workshop
November 2013
What I Strive To Offer
I believe strongly in the importance of centering the unique needs of each person I hold space for. I do not claim to have all of the answers, but I do commit to offering a supportive and empathetic container. I work best with those seeking support around unpacking internalized systems of oppression. I am strengths-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive. I strive to integrate anti-racism in my practice and support people healing towards individual & collective liberation.