Honoring the Land & Cultivating Equity: My Commitment to Social Impact

  • My Journey Towards Equity

  • Creating Inclusive Spaces for Personal, Systemic & Collective Transformation

I acknowledge with deep respect to the traditional 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. I honor their enduring connection to this place. I recognize the privilege of living and working on their ancestral territory.

My Journey Towards Equity and Inclusion:

My commitment to social justice and liberation are woven into the fabric of my life and business. It's a journey that began over twenty five years ago, fueled by a deep desire to create a more equitable and just world. I was 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 for the first decade of my career.

I believe that true transformation requires acknowledging and dismantling systems of oppression. This involves:

  • Honest self-reflection: Continuously examining systemic, ancestral, and cultural biases and privileges.

  • Lifelong learning: Seeking out diverse perspectives and engaging in ongoing education and experiences.

  • Actionable steps: Using my gifts and resources to support marginalized communities and amplify their voices.

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.

Giving Back to the Community

I'm dedicated to supporting organizations and initiatives that contribute to personal, systemic and collective liberation and also empower Global Majority: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. This includes:

  • Prioritizing donations to BIPOC-owned and global majority businesses and leaders.

  • Supporting maternal health initiatives for Black and Brown mothers and babies.

  • Providing scholarships and equity-based pricing for my services.

  • Creating and facilitating transformative retreats for visionaries in underserved and oppressed communities. You can donate to the the Global Women’s Leadership Community that I support here.

    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 and Paying from the Heart 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, donut economic theory, and The Gini coefficient. My pro bono work includes women’s retreats and year long plus programs for global majority women peace builders in South Africa, Lebanon, and the global south. Many past 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 began offering Paying from the Heart equity-based pricing for group offerings, as informed by models of 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 and Mark Silver of the Heart of Business. 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.

Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces:

My work is grounded in creating safe, somatically, systemically, and ancestrally trauma informed with an anti-racist, and anti-oppressive lens.
My intentions are to facilitate and build safety: physically, emotionally, spiritually, ethnically, racially, gender, and sexually.

  • Acknowledge and address systemic and collective dynamics.

  • Cultivate a culture of dignity, respect, and belonging.

  • Center joy, aliveness, authentic connection, and forward movement.