About Tasha
I’m Tasha — a speaker and educator commited to collective healing and liberatory leadership.
My work centers the belief that we belong to one another. Through trainings, consultation, and community containers, I help clinicians, educators, and leaders reconnect to their integrity, power, and purpose.
My work invites professionals to move beyond burnout and isolation into clarity, attunement, and embodied liberation.
Experience
Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW, Level 3 IFS Certified Therapist and IFS Approved Consultant, helps high-empathy space holders—mental health professionals, social justice advocates, and helping professionals—reclaim embodied self-leadership so their work and relationships are no longer driven by fear, obligation, or duty.Tasha is the owner of a solo, virtual private practice where she helps careworkers, helpers, activists, and the LGBTQIA community. While maintaining a small caseload of therapy clients, Tasha is focusing her energy fully on training, writing, consultation, community care, and speaking. After years of providing therapy, supervision, and consultation, she realized how much caregivers give to the world while neglecting their own needs. She believes that unity and safe community provide the pathways to healing and liberation. Tasha has trained therapists nationally and internationally, presenting to thousands. When she isn't working, you'll find her with her fiancée and family, on the beach, or writing on Substack.
Fun Facts
I’ve watched every season and almost every franchise of RuPaul Drag Race
I love platform shoes
I have hundreds of books in my home library
We should all find our voice and live in our own truth—whatever that might be.
TOP 5 SPEAKING PILLARS:
Liberatory Clinical Practice
The mental health field was not built with all of us in mind. Tasha helps clinicians examine the systems embedded in their training, their intake forms, their diagnostic language — and offers a path toward practice that is decolonized, intersectional, and clinically rigorous. Audiences leave with new language, new frameworks, and a new relationship to the work they thought they already knew.
Available as: keynote, CE-approved workshop, or multi-day training
Courageous Conversations in Clinical Care
Most clinicians were trained to manage suicide risk. Tasha teaches them to understand it. Drawing from her years investigating suicide deaths inside military healthcare systems and her own lived experience as a survivor, she guides audiences through some of the field's most avoided conversations — suicide care, self-harm, grief, and moral injury — without panic, without shame, and without flinching.
Available as: keynote, CE-approved workshop, or multi-day training
Coming Back to Life: Healing Suicidal Parts
This is not a clinical lecture. It is testimony, transformation, and invitation. Through an IFS-informed lens, Tasha reframes suicidal parts not as crises to contain but as messengers carrying the weight of what has been too much to hold. For clinicians, survivors, and anyone who has stood at the edge and found their way back — this session is a homecoming.
Available as: keynote or experiential workshop
Embodied Self-Love & Inner Belonging
Rooted in Audre Lorde's teachings on the erotic, somatic psychology, and Internal Family Systems, this pillar invites clinicians and leaders back into their bodies — back into the radical act of belonging to themselves. Tasha creates space for audiences to remember that self-love is not a luxury or a reward for productivity. It is a practice of liberation. It is the foundation of everything.
Available as: keynote, workshop, or retreat experience
Burnout, Moral Injury & the Exhausted Healer
The helping professions are in crisis — and Tasha names it without softening it. This pillar honors the grief of burnout, calls out the systems that manufacture it, and offers clinicians and leaders a path back to embodied self-leadership that doesn't require abandoning the work or the people they love. For the one who is still showing up but running on empty — this is for you.
Available as: keynote, workshop, or organizational training
Find out more about other speaking topics Here and learn more about other opportunities for speaking and training!
Education & Licensure
Master of Public Administration, Central Michigan University, 2009
Master of Social Work, Fayetteville State University, 2017
Licensed Clinical Social Worker:
North Carolina (#C012510, 2017)
Kansas (#05904)
Training & Memberships
NASW Member
Internal Family Systems Training:
Level 1 (2021)
Level 2 (2022)
Level 3 (2023)
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training and Certification (2021) (2024)
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.”