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Hi! I'm Silvana.

I help clinicians, healers, and coaches incorporate decolonized and liberatory values in their practices so that you can have a practice and/or service-based business that is truly affirming and welcoming to clients who hold marginalized identities.

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When the world’s walls feel like they’re closing in

Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 A mini course on how to better understand your and your clients' intersectionality using this wheel of power and privilege.It's all about connecting to better serve others. Newsletter readers will find out first when it's released. When the world is on fire (again), your system will want to do what it has always been trained to do: retreat into survival mode. Your sessions may feel less effective, your presence less sharp, your words less...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 A mini course on how to better understand your and your clients' intersectionality using this wheel of power and privilege.This mini course is looking amazing!! Newsletter readers will find out first when it's released. Let’s talk about specialties. How many times have you minimized your own: told yourself they weren’t that special, felt imposter syndrome creep in, overperformed just to prove you’re enough, while secretly feeling like you’re...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 A minicourse on how to better understand your and your clients' intersectionality using this wheel of power and privilege. ☀️ Last chance to book a 1:1 Decolonial Consultation at the current rate ($220).Get clarity in your practice without bypassing systemic grief.Support your clients more deeply without abandoning your own liberation.Clinicians are using this space to pivot their decolonial work in uncertain times — so they can show up...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 A minicourse on how to better understand your and your clients' intersectionality using this wheel of power and privilege. ☀️ Last chance to book a 1:1 Decolonial Consultation at the current rate ($220).Get clarity in your practice without bypassing systemic grief.Support your clients more deeply without abandoning your own liberation.Clinicians are using this space to pivot their decolonial work in uncertain times — so they can show up...

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Reader, Decolonial work is not a bullet point on our CVs. It’s not a new certificate. It’s not a panel you spoke on. It’s not another framework to master before we’re “ready.” Unlearning colonialism as a therapist, healer or space holder isn’t something you climb. It’s something we soften into. Because here’s the truth: We don’t decolonize by centering academic hierarchies or professional prestige. We don’t get free by measuring ourselves through the same systems that have always decided who...

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Reader, Grief. Grief and more grief. Grief is the thing. When we commit to decolonial healing, we cannot bypass grief. We can’t skip over the ache, the heaviness, the heartbreak that comes when we finally see what colonialism, capitalism, and oppression have taken from us, and from the people we serve. Decolonial grief is not a side note in the work. It is the work. Grief is the teacher that helps us unlearn and deprogram what no longer serves us—internally, relationally, collectively. It...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: ☀️ I'm offering the last round of 1-hour long 1:1 Decolonial Consultations at its current price ($220). Lately clinicians and healers have been using this time to unpack how their decolonial work is pivoting during our extra uncertain times and how to better support their clients through all the layers of systemic grief. Get your Consultation here One of the most liberatory things we can do as therapists and healers is model healthy...

wooden tiles on white surface that read "pause, rest, but never give up"

Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: ☀️ I'm offering the last round of 1-hour long 1:1 Decolonial Consultations at its current price ($220). Lately clinicians and healers have been using this time to unpack how their decolonial work is pivoting during our extra uncertain times and how to better support their clients through all the layers of systemic grief. Get your Consultation here Short and sweet today… and re-inspired by Tricia Hersey This is your reminder that rest is...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: ☀️ I'm offering the last round of 1-hour long 1:1 Decolonial Consultations at its current price ($220). Lately clinicians and healers have been using this time to unpack how their decolonial work is pivoting during our extra uncertain times and how to better support their clients through all the layers of systemic grief. Get your Consultation here Let’s talk about the shame that might arise when someone gets feedback. The shame that might arise...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: ☀️ I'm offering the last round of 1-hour long 1:1 Decolonial Consultations at its current price ($220). Lately clinicians and healers have been using this time to unpack how their decolonial work is pivoting during our extra uncertain times and how to better support their clients through all the layers of systemic grief. Get your Consultation here! Here’s something I want to say plainly: Shame will probably always be somewhere in the room....