“To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair -- despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless”

Audre Lorde (1989)

 

My consultation work sits at the intersection of clinical practice, program development, and the systems that help good work become sustainable.

I support outpatient mental health programs, community-based organizations, and agencies serving youth, families, and communities with minoritized identities. Depending on the organization, that support can look a few different ways.

Sometimes the work is early-stage: partnering with leadership to build something new, understand what compliance actually requires, develop clinical frameworks, or create the documentation systems a program needs before it can function well.

Other times, the work means getting close enough to understand how services actually happen day to day, what staff are already holding, and where the existing tools, policies, or workflows are not quite supporting the work. From there, I help build structures that better reflect the team, the clients, and the setting. Most organizations need some combination of both, just at different points in the process.

I also contract with programs for ongoing clinical supervision and programmatic support after an initial consultation or build-out. I care about what happens after the template, manual, or framework is created. Sustaining the work matters, and I'm available for continued partnership when the fit is right.

The organizations I tend to work best with are usually trying to make thoughtful changes while still carrying the demands of daily practice: a new program that does not fully have its shape yet, documentation that does not match actual practice, a clinical team needing more consistent support, or a gap between what leadership is hoping to build and what staff can reasonably hold.

If any of that feels familiar, I'm always glad to have a conversation about whether I can be useful