Decolonize Your Practice
Change your practice from the inside out so that you create a truly affirming and welcoming space that benefits and transforms the lives of your clients and your community.
The curriculum for mental health professionals seeking to incorporate anti-oppressive, decolonial, and liberatory values in their practices.
Decolonize Your Practice is a living curriculum for therapists, healers, and space-holders who want to practice liberation, not just talk about it.
It’s where we grieve what we were never taught.
Where we explore how western centric ideas, oppression, and colonialism live in our clinical training — and in our bodies.
Where we stop pretending that therapy is neutral.
Where we understand that therapy and healing will never be fully decolonial.
This work is for those who want to practice with more integrity, not claim expertise.
Together, we name how Western, capitalist, supremacist systems shape our training, our sense of professionalism, our bodies, our nervous systems, our memories, and the ways we relate to clients —
and to ourselves (not to mention –but yes to mention– our ways or being and our ways of remembering.) We explore how harm happens even when intentions are good and why accountability, repair, and humility must be central if we want to stop reproducing inadvertent harm.
This curriculum understands that decolonization is not just professional.
It is personal. Relational. Ongoing.
It is not just intellectual — it is meant to be embodied, felt, practiced, and returned to again and again.
Here, identity is not a sidebar.
Grief is not an afterthought.
And liberation is not a performance.
This is an ongoing, relational practice of unlearning colonial frameworks and returning to ways of working that are more honest, embodied, and accountable.
The curriculum centers grief as a portal, identity as essential (not optional), and complexity as something to stay with rather than resolve. We explore how power moves through care work, how neutrality is toxic, how harm happens even with good intentions, and how relationship and repair are core to liberatory practice.
This is not checkbox DEI.
Not performative inclusion.
Not academic theory divorced from lived experience.
And not a promise that we can “get it right.”
It’s practice over performance.
Cycle over checklist.
Community over isolation.
This curriculum is for those who want to:
Unlearn colonial values embedded in therapy and healing spaces
Understand how therapy is shaped by colonial systems of power – and reduce harm through accountability and repair
Stay human inside systems that demand perfection, productivity, and toxic professionalism
Practice in ways rooted in interdependence, reciprocity, and integrity
Be in deeper relationship with their identities, power, and limits
Do this work personally, not just professionally
Understand how identity, systems, politics, and power shape care
Stay with discomfort, grief, contradiction, and ongoing repair
You don’t have to be certain.
You don’t have to get it right.
You don’t have to be finished.
You just have to keep showing up.
If you’re ready to practice liberation — not as an identity, but as a way of being — you’re in the right place.
What’s Available & What’s Emerging
Currently Available
The Practice of Liberation (the POL) — a written space to slow down, practice over performance, and stay human
Liberatory Letters — reflective writing that names power, identity, and healing beyond neutrality
1:1 Liberatory Consultation — a place to connect and figure out what colonial layers you want to let go off
Upcoming
Community Liberation Consultations — monthly gatherings beginning in 2026
Identities — foundational identity work you can move through at your own pace
What’s in the Oven
Deep identity work
Grief as unlearning
DYP Essentials