04/17/2026
One thing I keep coming back to in this season of my work is this:
Good care is not just about having interventions. It is about having the humility to ask whether the intervention actually fits the person in front of you.
So much of our field rewards knowing, naming, diagnosing, and doing.
But not enough of it teaches us how to slow down and ask:
What context am I missing?
What has this client survived, adapted to, or learned to carry?
What am I calling dysfunction that may actually be protection?
Where might the model be too rigid for the complexity of real life?
These are the kinds of questions that have been shaping my work more and more.
I have been thinking deeply about what it means to offer care that is not only evidence-based, but also:
- culturally responsive
- trauma-informed
- accountable
- and rooted in the lived realities of the people we serve
Because when care lacks context, it can miss people.
And when training lacks depth, clinicians can leave with tools but not enough attunement.
That is part of what I will be pouring into this quarter through several upcoming presentations and trainings.
I’ll be speaking on topics including:
- reframing CBT through trauma-, substance use-, and culturally responsive lenses
- decolonizing women’s mental health
- cultivating cultural humility in counseling
- and strengthening the way we support Black women’s mental health
These spaces are not just about giving information.
They are about helping clinicians think more critically, practice more responsibly, and serve people more fully.
A few places I’ll be training/speaking this season:
✨ Reframing CBT: Trauma- and Substance Use–Informed Applications for Clinical Practice
With Kinnect Wellness Network and UNT Dallas
🔗 https://buff.ly/q2s83k4
✨ Decolonizing Women’s Mental Health: When Standard Models Miss the Mark
At Yale School of Medicine
🔗 https://buff.ly/Odg0QSc
✨ Cultivating Cultural Humility in Counseling
Exploring the real barriers that keep clinicians from growing in awareness, responsiveness, and practice.
At Dallas Metro Counseling Association
✨ Real Talk, Sis: Evoking Strength in Black Women’s Mental Health
At the Rooted in Black Wellness Summit
🔗 https://buff.ly/UrWg5mg
✨ Reimagining CBT: A Culturally Responsive Approach
Rethinking CBT in ways that feel more flexible, human, and aligned with the people we serve.
At Trauma Care Institute
🔗 https://buff.ly/gO3EPqi
All of this is also connected to the larger work I am building through The Healthcare GreenBook: Your Care Compass™...work centered on improving not just access to care, but the quality, safety, and cultural responsiveness of that care.
If any of these topics speak to where you are growing as a clinician, educator, or leader, I would love to have you in the space.
