"Beat the Blues", Heart and Soul,December/January, 2001.
In Our Own Voice: African-American Stories of Oppression, Survival and Recovery in Mental Health Systems. Its About Time: Discovering, Recovering and Celebrating Mental Health Consumer/Survivor History. August 2001.
Surviving My Sister's Suicide: A Journey Through Grief. Living Beyond Loss: Death in the Family, 2nd Edition. Monica McGoldrick and Froma Walsh, Eds. New York:W.W. Norton and Company, 2004.
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Feminist Reflections on Therapy with Low-Wage Earning Women. Psychotherapy and Women: Exploring Diverse Contexts and Identities. Marsha Pravder Mirkin, Karen l. Suyemoto and Barbara Okun, Eds. New York: The Guilford Press, 2005.
Families of African Origin: An Overview. Co-author, Lascelles BlackEthnicity and Family Therapy, Third Edition. Monica McGoldrick, Joe Giordano and Nydia Garcia-Predo, Eds. New York: The Guilford Press, 2005.
Separate and Unequal: The Legacy of Racially Segregated Hospitals. Monograph, 2005.
New and On-going Projects Fiscal Trauma
I am currently researching and writing topic of "fiscal trauma", the emotional consequences of chronic financial anxiety. Learn more about fiscal trauma here.Healing Circles, Inc. is assisting the Women's Resource Center to End Domestic Violence in the creation of an economic empowerment program for survivors of domestic violence which will address emotional trauma and increase financial literacy.
Feminist Management
Activism,Trauma and Healing
I am a licensed clinical social worker and owner of Healing Circles, Inc., a personal development consulting business. I earned a Master's Degree from Washington University-Warren Brown School of Social Work. My practice honors the strengths and creativity individuals and organizations that seek consultation.
I value the opportunity to be a part of your personal or professional development. As your therapist or coach I am responsible for co-creating a therapeutic environment.with you. Healing Circles, Inc. is an inclusive clinical practice, which celebrates diversity in relation to gender, age, sexual orientation, economic status, race, ethnicity, language, spiritual political beliefs. I believe that therapy can only be effective when an individual can present without having to hide or protect aspects of the self that may be devalued in the wider society.
