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Liberatory Letters

I'm Silvana, decolonization and liberation consultant and educator for therapists, healers and space holders.

I help therapists, healers, and space-holders bring decolonial and liberatory values into their work—so you’re not just saying you’re aligned… you’re actually practicing it. ⬆️ More integrity, more connection, more liberation. ⬇️ Less burnout, less performative wokeness, less colonial residue. If you want a practice where marginalized clients feel safe, seen, and honored—and you want to feel more grounded and intentional in your work—subscribe and join a growing community of practitioners doing this work differently. You practice can be liberatory-- let's get you there!

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There’s no such thing as decolonial therapy

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...

7 months ago • 2 min read
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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 Community Liberation Sessions, the next meetings take place in two weeks, and you're welcome to join live (with a limited replay available.) This is a virtual gathering space for therapists, healers, and space-holders practicing decolonization — in real time.Learn more below or here. A couple of weeks ago, I told you that burnout and moral tension were among the main concerns for therapists wanting a liberatory practice. I ran a few more polls...

5 days ago • 2 min read
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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 Community Liberation Sessions, (formerly Decolonized Consultation Sessions) started in March. And you're welcome to join us live in the following months (with a limited replay available.)This is a virtual gathering space for therapists, healers, and space-holders practicing decolonization — in real time.Learn more below or here. Let’s talk about burnout. Not the “take a bubble bath and you’ll feel better” kind. Not the kind that can be fixed...

12 days ago • 2 min read
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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 Community Liberation Sessions, (formerly Decolonized Consultation Sessions) started last week. And you're welcome to join us live in the following months (with a limited replay available.)This is a virtual gathering space for therapists, healers, and space-holders practicing decolonization — in real time.Learn more below or here. Since restarting the Community Liberation Sessions, I’ve been reflecting more deeply on something I’ve been...

19 days ago • 1 min read
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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 Community Liberation Sessions, (formerly Decolonized Consultation Sessions) start today. And you're welcome to join us live if you have a cancellation or watch it later (limited replay available.)This is a virtual gathering space for therapists, healers, and space-holders practicing decolonization — in real time.We'll answer questions, process dilemmas, and learn together how to support a decolonial practice.Learn more below or here. I...

26 days ago • 2 min read
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March 2026 Reader, At the end of the Gregorian year, I took a full month off from therapy clients. And I actually took time off. I didn’t check my work email, I disconnected completely, and I left out-of-office messages everywhere they could possibly live. I intentionally didn’t plan a vacation. I stayed home to, I guess, hang out with myself. No specific plans. No productivity goals. No “use this time wisely” strategy. Just a stack of books that I promised myself I would peruse, not finish...

28 days ago • 5 min read
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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 Community Liberation Sessions, (formerly Decolonized Consultation Sessions) start next week. This is a virtual gathering space for therapists, healers, and space-holders practicing decolonization — in real time.We'll answer questions, process dilemmas, and learn together how to support a decolonial practice.Learn more below or here. Let’s be clear: therapy is political. When a client walks into our office, chances are they bring with them a...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read
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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 Community Liberation Sessions, (formerly Decolonized Consultation Sessions) start in two weeks! Learn more below or get in the waitlist here. One thing they don’t teach you in grad school (or in any certification program really) is policies. Do you charge for a late cancellation or no-show? Do you keep a card on file? How do you “make” people agree to your policies? Yes, yes, this is a piece of cake for some clinicians. But not all of us are...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read

Hey Reader, It’s finally here! 🎉 Community Liberation Sessions (formerly Decolonized Consultation Sessions) are open for signup. Pick the group that fits you: BIPoC clinicians group white clinicians group Unsure which group to join?Learn more about affinity groups first Or read more about the sessions if it’s your first time joining Can’t wait to see you in the virtual room, ready to bring your questions, tensions, and real-life experiences. 💬 Have a question you want answered in the...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read
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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 💻 Community Liberation Sessions, (formerly Decolonized Consultation Sessions) a live, collective space for therapists, healers, and space-holders interrupting colonial patterns in their work and practicing liberation in real time — not just talking about it.We bring our tensions, contradictions, and lived realities into the room and work through them together.If you’ve been craving practice, not performance, this space is for you.Learn more...

about 2 months ago • 3 min read
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February 2026 Reader, I belong to the subgroup of clinicians who became therapists because they went to therapy and… it worked! Therapy helped me so i wanted to help others though therapy… does that sound familiar? I joined an undergraduate program in psychology in 2004. I completed my clinical psychology internship at the local Air Force hospital in 2009. Of course I didn’t love the specialty classes. Of course I was lit up by philosophy and psychology, literature and psychology, sociology...

about 2 months ago • 4 min read