All offerings are provided through my LLC, Head to Heart.

• LPC Residents (Virginia)
• LMFT Residents (Virginia)
• Doctoral Students

• Licensed Mental Health Providers
  • Creating a private practice
  • Developing a specialty area
  • Finding your ideal clients
• Doctoral Students
  • Career Planning
• Organizations and Businesses
  • Employee well-being
  • Communication
  • Effective Leadership
• Counseling Programs
  • CACREP
  • Course Development
  • Online education best practices
• Curriculum Development
• Finding a Therapist

Examples include:

• Personalizing Self-Care

  • Learning Objectives:
    • Describe key concepts of Polyvagal Theory and how they relate to self-care
    • Explore how systemic oppression impacts nervous system regulation across different populations
    • Discover how your social location influences your stress responses and access to self-care
    • Examine how dominant wellness narratives may exclude marginalized experiences
    • Identify your personal nervous system responses during stress and calm states
    • Create a tailored self-care plan based on your unique nervous system patterns that acknowledges both personal and collective healing
    • Practice at least three regulation techniques you can use immediately

• Foundations of Couples Counseling

  • Learning Objectives:
    • Compare the core differences between individual and couples therapy approaches
    • Analyze ethical scenarios specific to couples work (confidentiality, alliance)
    • Examine your personal values and assumptions about relationships
    • Demonstrate basic techniques from two major couples therapy models
    • Develop initial assessment skills for relationship dynamics

• Foundations of Couples Counseling Continued

  • Analyze how power, privilege, and oppression manifest in relationship dynamics
  • Challenge heteronormative and Eurocentric assumptions in traditional couples therapy
  • Examine how your cultural background shapes your views on “healthy” relationships
  • Adapt couples therapy approaches to honor diverse relationship structures and values
  • Develop skills to address the impact of social injustice on couple relationships

• Foundations of Family Counseling

  • Learning Objectives:
    • Identify systemic patterns that distinguish family therapy from individual work
    • Apply appropriate ethical boundaries when working with multiple family members
    • Assess your own family experiences and how they shape your clinical lens
    • Practice basic family mapping and structural assessment techniques
    • Demonstrate one intervention from a major family therapy approach

• Foundations of Family Counseling Continued

  • Recognize how systemic oppression influences family functioning across generations
  • Apply family therapy methods that center cultural strengths and resistance strategies
  • Question dominant narratives about “normal” family structures and communication
  • Practice addressing power imbalances within family systems and therapy relationships
  • Develop interventions that honor families’ cultural wisdom and healing practices

• Emotion Regulation

  • Learning Objectives:
    • Explain how the nervous system influences emotional responses
    • Connect individual emotional experiences to broader sociopolitical contexts
    • Recognize how marginalization and oppression impact nervous system regulation
    • Recognize physical and behavioral signs of dysregulation in clients
    • Create healing spaces that validate anger and grief as responses to injustice
    • Practice guiding clients through at least three evidence-based regulation exercises
    • Adapt regulation techniques for different client needs and contexts
      • Adapt regulation techniques to honor cultural differences in emotional expression
    • Create a toolkit of regulation resources to share with clients

• Cognitive Development throughout the Lifespan

  • Learning Objectives:
    • Identify key cognitive milestones across different developmental stages
    • Compare major theories of cognitive development
    • Critique Western bias in traditional developmental theories
    • Examine how systemic inequities impact cognitive development across communities
    • Recognize strengths-based cognitive adaptations to oppressive environments
    • Identify how educational and social systems can reinforce or challenge cognitive hierarchies
    • Recognize how cognitive changes impact mental health at different life stages
    • Apply developmental considerations that center diverse cultural perspectives
    • Evaluate how social and environmental factors influence cognitive development

• Culturally Responsive Counseling

  • Learning Objectives:
    • Examine your own social position and how it shapes your counseling practice
    • Develop ongoing self-reflection practices that challenge your cultural biases
    • Center client expertise about their cultural experiences and healing needs
    • Practice counseling approaches that acknowledge historical and ongoing trauma
    • Build skills for addressing racism and oppression in the counseling relationship
    • Create therapeutic environments that support client resistance and liberation

• Parenting Strategies

  • Learning Objectives:
    • Distinguish between different parenting styles and their impacts on children
    • Recognize how dominant parenting narratives reflect white, middle-class values
    • Assess family dynamics that influence parenting effectiveness
    • Examine how systems of oppression create barriers to supportive parenting
    • Demonstrate methods for teaching emotional coaching skills to parents
    • Create practical tools parents can use to address common behavioral challenges
    • Support parents in preparing children to navigate racism and oppression
    • Develop interventions that build on families’ cultural strengths and resilience
    • Design interventions that respect diverse cultural approaches to parenting
    • Practice responding to parents’ concerns in a supportive, non-judgmental manner