Rooted Unlearning, Systemic Learning, and Re-Membering Experiences

Learning & Unlearning (2020-2025).

-Decolonizing Therapy BIPoC Book Club and Consultation Group 2024—2025, Austin, TX
-Decolonizing Gestalt Therapy group 2025—present, online
-Sexual Pain: What Every Sex Therapist Needs to Know 2025, Sexual Health Solutions
-Sensate Focus: Everything You Need to Start Today! 2025, Sexual Health Solutions
-Becoming an Antiracist and Anti-Oppressive Clinician 2025, Dr. Raquel Martin and Dr. Han Ren
-Cultivating Liberation: Exploration of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy with a Focus on Ketamine, workshop, 2025, Candace Oglesby, LCPC
-Certified Personal Trainer, 2025, International Sports Sciences Association
-Brainspotting I with Indigenous Pilipino Psychology 2024, Brainspotting Philippines Training Services
-LINAW Creative Healing Retreat with Land, Body, Meditation, Writing, Creativity, Voice, & Movement, 2-day, 2024
-Antiracism Seminar Series and Antiracist Practice Group, 6-session series, 2022-2023, A Therapist Like Me
-Myofascial Healing Seminar, 3-day workshop, 2022, John F. Barnes Myofascial Release
-Myofascial Release I Certificate, 3-day certificate, 2022, John F. Barnes Myofascial Release
-Somatic Abolitionism: Resmaa Menakem, 9-month training, 2021
-Communal Consultations, Bodies of Culture: Erin Johnson, Karine Bell and Resmaa Menakem, 9-month communal consultation, 2021
-The Expert Voices in Adoption Conference: 2021
-Social Justice Summit: 2021
-Decolonizing Trans Health Workshop, 2021, San Francisco Transgender Empowerment Advocacy Mentorship
-Trauma for Resiliency: Strozzi Institute, Staci Haines, 4-month training, 2020
-Coaching Circle for Resiliency: Strozzi Institute, Erika Lyla, 4-month coaching circle, 2020
-Gestalt Conference: La Paz, Mexico, 2020
-Somatic Experiencing, Beginning I, 2020
-Social Work Professional Development Conference: ETSU, 2020

Licenses and Certifications

Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, #11211
with the North Carolina Board of Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselors (renewal date: 6/30/26, associate-licensed since 2014, fully licensed since 2016)

Certified Climbing Wall Instructor through the American Mountain Guide Association (renewal date: September 15, 2027)

250-hour Yoga Teacher Training Certificate, Asheville Community Yoga (completed December 2017)

Education & Training

I am a graduate of a 3-year, advanced training program through the Appalachian Gestalt Training Institute. I completed a 1-year internship and taught at a gestalt collective in Asheville, NC, and online.

Formal Education

• MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Expressive Arts Therapy from Appalachian State University (2013)

• MBA in Organization Management from Georgia State University (2010)

• BS Ed in Recreation and Leisure Studies with a concentration in Therapeutic Recreation from University of Georgia (2007)

• AA in Psychology from Gainesville College (2005)

• One-Year Certificate in Personal Training from Gainesville College (2004)

My somatic training includes Somatic Abolitionism & Communal Consultation with Resmaa Menakem, Indigenous Filipino BrainSpotting, EMDR Natural Flow with Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Trauma for Resiliency, Psychodrama, decolonizing psychotherapy, and gestalt, embodiment trainings.

I have attended several trainings in resistance training, group fitness, sports science, and kinesiology from International Sports Sciences Association, AFAA, Gainesville College, and the Cooper Institute.

I have attended and will continue to attend professional conferences, workshops, and continuing education opportunities in racial equity, decolonizing wellness, centering indigeneity, mental health, gestalt therapy, transgender health, and diversity issues.