The Liberation-Informed Clinician Cohort

For social workers, counselors and mental health professionals who want to move beyond awareness and integrate anti-oppressive, culturally responsive and liberation-informed care into their everyday clinical work. Together we will question inherited practices, experiment with more liberatory approaches, and explore practical ways to strengthen client agency without overlooking the realities of systemic harm.

Here's the breakdown:

Week 1: Recognizing the Systems in the Room

Through consiousness-raising and critical reflection, you will begin to understand how power, oppression, culture and institutional expectations shape client experiences.

Week 2: Examining the Practitioner Within the Practice

We will explore bias, positionality, professional authority, respectibility politics and inherited clinical norms that shape our practice.

Week 3: Bringing Liberation Into the Clinical Encounter

We will apply culturally responsive, collaborative, and liberation informed tools to active clinical work.

Week 4: Practicing Beyond Compliance

We will apply what you are learning to your current work and create an ethical and sustainable plan for practicing with greater courageous reflection, historical context, accountability and client agency.

Your Contribution Matters

This is not a passive webinar or a pursuit of becoming a perfect practitioner. It is about raising our critical consciouness to examine how power, culture, identity, professional conditioning and oppressive systems enter the clinical space. Let me be clear, this cohort is grounded in shared power and collective wisdom. True, I will guide and hold the learning space as facilitator, but I do not enter it believing that I have all the answers. Every participants' knowledge, lived experience, questions and contributions will be honored and valued. In the same way that liberatory practice recognizes clients and service users as equal partners in healing and systemic change; we will learn with and from one another.

Cohort Meetings

Four (4) weekly virtual live group sessions.

• Meet virtually every Friday at 12pm EST

Requirements

This cohort is designed for licensed or pre-licensd social workers, therapists, counselors and other mental health professionals who:

• Currently working with an active caseload within their legal and professional scope.

• Are wiling to engage in critical self reflection, respectful dialogue and experiential practice.

• Are able to participate without disclosing clients names, identifying details, protected health information or confidential agency information.

• Agree to honor the privacy, identities, perspectives and lived experiences shared by other cohort members.

• Understand that discomfort may be a part of consiousness-raising, while shaming, personal attacks, discrimination and harmful conduct will not be permitted.

Disclaimer

This cohort is an education and professional development experience. It is not psychotherapy, clinical supervision, legal advice, crisis support or a substitute for individualized clinical consultation. Participants remain responsible for practicing within their scope of competence and following all applicable laws, licensing board requirements, professional codes of ethics, organizational policies, and mandated reporting obligations.

Come prepared to think crtitcally, participate actively and practice beyond compliance.