Licensed Therapist Specializing in Women and Children of Color

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I speak and present workshops on topics related to mental health in the workplace and in schools, healthy relationships, self care and boundary setting, and working therapeutically with Black women, families and children.

Check out Past Talks

Building Mental Resilience and Planning for Self Care

Webinar presented at Code2040’s Black Women’s Wellness Day 2021

Building Mental Resilience and Reframing Self-Care.

Webinar presented for National Partnership for Educational Access membership.

Exhausted As a People: Black Mental Health in Relation to Police Brutality & Racial Identity

Panel discussion for Healing Black Women.

Past Workshops and Speech Topics

Transitioning is the hardest part: Preparing middle and high school students of color to thrive.

Self care as resistance.

Is the promise worth the sacrifice? Exploring Experiences of Students of Color in Independent Private Schools.

Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Elementary School: On Empathy, Activism, and Things that are Bigger Than Me.

Making the institution mine: Rewriting the rulebook as students of color (presented with Anna Nti-Asare-Tubbs).