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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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The colonial pressure to fix everything in session

Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to (you can skip this box to read the Liberatory Letter below): 🖥️ Developing a self-paced course on identities and intersectionality as key components of having a decolonial practice. Get automatically on the waitlist by clicking this link. ☀️ Working on the last round (ever) of the program Decolonize Your Practice for later this year. This will be a condensed version and you can automatically get on the waitlist by clicking this link. Lately, I’ve...

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Reader, Something else that keeps surfacing in conversations with fellow therapists and healers is the tension of being both witness and participant in a world on fire. We’re navigating burnout, grief, systemic violence—and then showing up to hold others through the same storms. ❌ This isn’t a sign that you’re not being an effective therapist. This isn't a personal shortcoming either... ✅ This is a reflection of living and working within a system that asks us to care endlessly -while most of...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to (you can skip this box to read the Liberatory Letter below): 🎙️ Last year (and last year was a completely different time) I recorded a podcast interview with Maegan Megginson from the Deeply Rested Podcast titled "Love, Joy, and Liberation: A Shame-Free Approach to Decolonization" (for service providers) and you can listen to it here. 🖥️ Next week on 4/24 I am presenting the first part of 3-part Workshop Series for The Therapist Connection titled...

Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to (you can skip this box to read the Liberatory Letter below): 🔥🔥 I'm preparing a 3-part Workshop Series for The Therapist Connection. In April: "Decolonizing Your Practice: A 4-Step Guide for Private Practitioners". In May: "Navigating Code-Switching in Clinical Spaces: Insights for B.I.POC Practitioners and Allies". In June: "Decolonizing Mental Health: Bridging Personal and Professional Transformation". Hope to see you there! Last year I talked...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to (you can skip this box to read the Liberatory Letter below): 📖 Reading: Room At The Table, A Leader's Guide To Advancing Health Equity And Justice by Dr. Renée Branch Canady 🖥️ Developing a self-paced course on identities and intersectionality as key components of having a decolonial practice. Get automatically on the waitlist by clicking this link. ☀️ The last round (ever) of the program Decolonize Your Practice later this year. This will be a...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been up to: 📖 Reading: Room At The Table, A Leader's Guide To Advancing Health Equity And Justice by Dr. Renée Branch Canady 🖥️ Developing a self-paced course on identities and intersectionality as key components of having a decolonial practice. Get automatically on the waitlist by clicking this link. ☀️ The last round (ever) of the program Decolonize Your Practice later this year. This will be a condensed version and you can automatically get on the...

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Reader, A quick update on what I've been working on: 🎙️ A podcast interview with Shelby Leigh from Relationship As Medicine on What Grad School Didn't Teach Us 📖 A course on identities and intersectionality as key components of having a decolonial practice. Get automatically on the waitlist by clicking this link. ☀️ The last round (ever) of the program Decolonize Your Practice later this year. This will be a condensed version and you can automatically get on the waitlist by clicking this...

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Reader, It’s been a few weeks since I last landed in your inbox, and I want to take a moment to reconnect. Life has been full (and I imagine yours has too). Whether you’ve been navigating the heaviness of the world, showing up for your community, or just trying to get through the day, I see you. If you’re new here, welcome! I’m so glad you found your way to this newsletter (and a big thank-you to those who sent you this way!) A few things I’ve been up to lately: 💫 I prepared and delivered a...

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Reader, Keeping it short and sweet and honouring my current bandwidth (because i want to support my clients and myself as we navigate oppression) From educators I have learned from and would learn again and again: Akilah Riley Richardson is offering a free webinar entitled “Becoming the B.I.O.M.E - The Therapeutic Presence for Marginalized People.” You can register here. Lily Zheng tells you What Comes After DEI here and the IG tldr version here. From educators I don’t know yet: Dr. Pavna...

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Reader, This has been the topic this week in my clinical practice with other clinicians... ...Maybe this week (especially if you are in the US) you: though of not being a therapist anymore wanted to stay in bed we’re scared yourself about your future due to your identities thought you were not being efficient enough with your clients needed therapy yourself angry, done, ready to leave, enraged helpless, hopeless I hear you and I see you. I have felt all of the above as well… Then I recalled...