Support for Black Womxn
Dina Scippa
Founder & CEO of Enough Labs
Dina is a Gender Equality Specialist turned life coach and Founder of Enough Labs. She hosts the internationally-charted podcast, Embracing Enough, which explores the stories that influence our collective experience and unpacks what it takes to embrace the belief that we are enough just as we are.
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As a certified life and empowerment coach, a self-love advocate, a feminist and an unwavering optimist, Dina feels that true confidence is grounded in radical acceptance of the belief that you are enough.
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Dr. Adjoa Osei, Psy.D.
Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Osei is a clinical psychologist who practices from a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive approach. She was trained in both psychodynamic psychotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which she uses in her virtual private practice and in her private practice office located in Brooklyn, NY.
As a Black therapist, Dr. Osei understands the challenges of navigating multiple systems of oppression. Her practice is founded on the perspective that identity is integral to therapeutic work and thus, she views a person and their presenting problems within a cultural context. She is a published author and has facilitated multiple presentations and workshops on various psychological and social justice issues.
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Rafaella Smith-Fiallo
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Rafaella (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, sexual liberation activist, and therapist specializing in relationship, sex, and trauma therapy. She owns Healing Exchange LLC, a therapy private practice, and co-founded Afrosexology, a sex-positive, pleasure-based sexuality education business.
Dr. Joi Lewis
Community Healer & Facilitator of Liberation
Dr. Joi Lewis is a visionary community healer and facilitator of liberation. and social justice. As a speaker, author, the CEO of Joi Unlimited and President of The Healing Justice Foundation, she’s on a mission to put healing in the hands of anyone, anywhere. Dr. Joi helps individuals, institutions, and communities heal from oppression-induced historic and present day trauma, using Healing Justice as an on ramp to reclaim our own humanity and each other’s. Dr. Joi’s book, Healing: The Act of Radical Self-Care, educates individuals on the Orange Method of Healing Justice, a framework to interrupt historic cycles of oppression through both self and community care. She offers this meditation to all who believe in freedom: #MayTheRevolutionBeHealing
Nia Hamilton-Ibu
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
I value supporting people through mind-body-spirit therapeutic social justice approaches. Incorporating one’s cultural as well as community resources is essential to support healing. Acknowledging the whole self to address how stress and trauma impact the body and spirit aids in fostering wellness. Acknowledging the impact of social dynamics and oppression honors the hardships and strengths of an individual and communities to aid with supporting holistic and intergenerational wellness.
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My practice is informed by a social justice, anti-oppression, trauma focused and collaborative lens with psychodynamic training. In my 18+ years of providing therapy, I am honored to help people recognize and enhance their own internal strengths, resiliency and ability to heal while also sharing tools and teaching copings skills.
Dr. Lori Nixon-Bethea
PhD, LPC, NCC, ACS
Dr. Nixon-Bethea is a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of New Jersey and is a nationally board certified counselor and an approved clinical supervisor through the Center for Credentialing and Education. She is the owner of a private counseling practice—Intentional Hearts Counseling, and she teaches as an Assistant Professor of psychology and Counseling at Georgian Court University in Lakewood New Jersey. In 2019, Dr. Nixon Bethea released her first children’s book, Riley’s Worry Away: A Children’s book about worrying. Dr. Nixon-Bethea’s expertise has been quoted in Cosmopolitan magazine, Very Well Health, and Shape magazine.
G. Michelle Goodloe, LCSW
Owner and Psychotherapist, The Essence of Healing LLC
My name is G. Michelle Goodloe and I am a licensed clinical social worker in the states of Georgia and Illinois. With The Essence of Healing LLC, I provide virtual individual therapy.
The focus of my work is to help you find clarity with the issues you are experiencing. For over 10 years, I have worked in clinical and non-profit settings with people who have experienced domestic violence, dating violence, childhood abuse, compassion fatigue and burnout. These experiences have inspired me to create this virtual private practice, to help you have a healthier relationship with yourself and with others.
Emily R Williams coaches women of color to stand up and speak out against workplace microaggressions. When women of color use their voice to accelerate change, they help to create a better world of work for everyone. Emily has written policies to end harassment and increase inclusion in workplaces nationally and globally, including at the United Nations. Emily has worked with national governments, multinational corporations, nonprofits and advocates in more than 20 countries to advance social justice. In her spare time, you can find Emily dancing to Chicago house music or checking out cute cafes.
If you are a woman of color who needs to accelerate change at work because it’s central to your job description or because you have been targeted with microaggressions or other mistreatment, email emily@forwardeverglobal.com
Emily offers 1:1 and group coaching to individuals and offers speaking, training and advising services to organizations. To learn more about her services, schedule a consultation here.
Coach & Consultant
Emily R Wlliams
Founder of BlakQuity
Jamilah White
blakQuity offers racial equity coaching for organization teams and individuals who are looking to be more intentional in their racial equity work. Our coaching philosophy centers accountability, self-awareness, building a personal racial equity analysis and strategies for navigating interpersonal and organizational dynamics.
Patrice Ford Lyn
CEO & Founder of Catapult Change
Patrice has taken many risks and felt the tremendous emotions that accompanied them. She has packed up and moved to a different country more than once. Left a "secure" job to do the work she loves more than once. She even left a bad situation and bought an open ticket to Brazil having no idea how long she would be there or what would happen next.
And, she has also felt the paralysis of fear that kept her stuck for years. She knows that the right support - perspective, tools, compassion, community and accountability - makes all the difference.
And, that’s why she does this beautiful work. So that you can have a safe space to pause, reflect, assess and step into possibilities greater than you can currently imagine.
It’s okay to feel frustrated, it means you are ready for change.