Land Acknowledgement & DEI Statement

I acknowledge and pay my respect to the traditional owners, custodians and wisdom keepers of the unceded Doeg land on which I work, steward, and live, as well as the wisdom keepers past, present and emerging.

My anti-racism journey began while working in the Washington, DC public mental health system with children and teens, who experienced sexual abuse, incest, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, and/or discrimination around their sexual identifies, their families and the community. Serving the Black community as a white-bodied woman, initiated my reckoning process with my whiteness, white privilege, white fragility, and systemic racism and oppression in 2002.

My process of unlearning my unearned privilege and dismantling whiteness (racist, oppressive and exclusionary structures and narratives) is lifelong. My commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, just-ness, joy, and aliveness is woven throughout my personal life and business and continues to evolve as I continue to unlearn with humility and a willingness to be called in, given feedback and corrected.

Beginning in 2016, I invited my community to prioritize donating to local and global BIPOC women-owned businesses, creatives, and leaders through my offerings and newsletter. In 2022, I focused these donations to prenatal and perinatal health for Black and Brown mothers and babies in DC through Mamatoto Village's Capital Campaign and sponsored Black activists to teach in the region.

In 2021, I attended a Legacy Trip with Tina Strawn, Corey Leak and Nandi K to The Legacy Museum from Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Prior to this trip, I had consistently offered scholarships to BIPOC in my private practice. Throughout my weekend in Alabama, I received a deeper calling to exclusively offer scholarships to Black Women CIS, Trans, Binary, Abinary, and Nonbinary.

My equity based sliding scale model is ever evolving. When I began my private practice in 2009, I offered sliding scale slots to anyone who asked, which was one of my blind spots, as not everyone needed it. This took from other clients who actually needed the sliding scale.

In 2021 with coaching and clinical supervision, I shifted my business model based on reparations and donut economic theory. My pro bono work includes women’s retreats for Black and Brown Women in South Africa and Lebanon. Many clients shared that they were sorry for asking for a discount when they actually didn’t need it, as they’d received high value badass outcomes for such a deal for years at low prices.

After continued inquiry in 2023, I’m offering sliding scale equity-based pricing for group offerings, as informed by models of Simone Grace Seol and Alexis J. Cunningfolk, who has incredible resources no matter what your business model may be or if you’re a person in the world wanting to make change. My intention in offering this model is to share from a place of empowerment, rather than scarcity.

My pricing values you, others, community, me, my family (as a single mother), and the work with understanding the impact of how we each carry class, capitalism, and the intersections of privilege and oppression within these systems.

My work with clients individually and in groups is intentionally created from a somatically trauma-informed and anti-racist and anti-oppressive lens. I welcome people to each experience by naming the process of building physical, emotional, spiritual, ethnic, racial, gender, and sexual safety.

While this work is potent, it isn’t as hard or heavy as you “think” it is or will be. My clients experience more aliveness, connection, laughter, levity, and joy no matter how we’re gathering.

I invite participants and clients to call me in, give feedback and correct throughout our process. This process of creating safety and deepening integrity for my clients and their experiences with me continues to evolve as I continue to unlearn.

I am committed to using my privilege and platform to raise awareness, direct reparations and support teachings of and for Black and Brown people. Celebrating Black and Brown Joy and Aliveness is foundational and will be lifted in my spaces.