Upcoming Events
Front Porch Fridays
Front Porch Fridays
Four honest conversations about building a life and career beyond the therapy room.
Some of the most meaningful conversations don't happen in graduate school, supervision, or at conferences.
They happen on the front porch.
The front porch is a place of invitation. A place where people are welcomed as they are. A place to pull up a chair, exhale, rest for a while, and speak honestly about the things that don't always have a place elsewhere. It's where wisdom is shared, stories are exchanged, and we remember that none of us are building this life alone.
Front Porch Fridays was created in that spirit.
Over four gatherings, I'll share what I've learned about expanding my work beyond traditional therapy. I'll talk honestly about the lessons, the mistakes, the contracts I wish I had read more carefully, the opportunities I said yes to, the ones I'm grateful I declined, the internal battles, and the practices that have helped me build work that feels deeply aligned with my values.
This isn't business coaching. It's an invitation into honest conversation about the process.
Whether you're simply curious or actively considering your next chapter, you're welcome here.
Front Porch #1
Standing in Your Truth
Who Do You Want to Become?
Friday, August 7, 2026
1:00–2:00 PM EST
Before we talk about pricing, speaking, writing, workshops, or multiple streams of income, we begin somewhere deeper.
Who are you becoming?
Many therapists spend years becoming competent clinicians while quietly losing touch with themselves. We learn how to care for others before we ask what kind of life we actually want to build.
Together we'll explore:
Living and working from your values
Letting go of other people's expectations
Discovering what work is truly yours to do
Building a career that reflects your humanity—not just your credentials
Why I chose to expand beyond traditional therapy
Future Front Porch Fridays
August 21
Finding and Freeing Your Voice
August 28
Building Beyond the Therapy Room
September 11
The Business No One Taught Us
Each gathering will also include reflections on What My Parts Had to Say, exploring the inner critics, protectors, fears, hopes, and courageous parts that shaped my journey along the way.
Details
Dates
Friday, August 7, 2026
Friday, August 21, 2026
Friday, August 28, 2026
Friday, September 11, 2026
Time
1:00–2:00 PM EST
Location
Virtual via Zoom
Investment
$99 for all four live gatherings.
If you've been wondering whether there is more for you beyond the therapy room, I'd love to save you a seat on the porch.
Registration Link: https://pci.jotform.com/tashahunterlcsw/front-porch-fridays-registration
A Grief Gathering for Careworkers
A Grief Gathering for Therapists and Careworkers
We spend our days tending to other people's grief. Ours learns to wait.
This gathering is for therapists, social workers, psychologists, medical providers, caseworkers, chaplains, hospice workers, careworkers, and healers. A place for those of us who do the tending to be tended to.
We'll meet on Zoom for ninety minutes. We'll ground, breathe, reflect, and remember. You can lay down your roles, your credentials, your armor, and let yourself be witnessed.
Bring your grief over a loved one, a relationship, an estrangement. Bring burnout, your health, the loss of a previous version of yourself. Bring the weight of racism and oppression. Bring the heartbreak of this field, the exhaustion of caregiving, the ache of aloneness. Bring your sadness, your laughter, your numbness, or simply your desire to be in the presence of others. There is no right way to grieve and no right way to show up.
There will be room to name your grief, sing it, sway with it, cry, laugh, whisper, or sit in silence. Grief and joy, exhaustion and hope, tenderness and truth. All of it belongs here.
Held by Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW — a clinician who grieves too.
What to expect
No one is required to speak or share. Cameras can be on or off. Everything is invitational. This gathering will not be recorded, and we'll open with shared agreements about privacy.
You might want water, tissues, a journal, and a corner where you can be unguarded.
This is a communal grief space, not group therapy, clinical supervision, or a CE training.
Details
Friday, August 21, 2026
2:00–3:30 PM ET, on Zoom
Your Zoom link will arrive with your registration confirmation.
Investment
Sliding scale: $30 / $40 / $50
Choose the amount that reflects your current financial reality. No explanation needed.
No refunds for missed attendance.
Register Here: https://pci.jotform.com/tashahunterlcsw/come-lay-it-down-grief-gathering-au
Locating Self IFS-Rooted Workshop
Locating Self is an experiential and didactic continuing education training that reimagines the Internal Family Systems (IFS) concept of Self through ancestral memory, intersectional identity, and liberatory practice.
Eligible for 3 NBCC Credit Hours
Participants will explore how race, queerness, gender, spirituality, systemic oppression, and cultural inheritance shape access to Self-energy — in both clinicians and the clients they serve. This training is designed for mental health professionals who want to deepen their clinical practice while remaining accountable to social justice, embodiment, and collective healing.
This Training Integrates:
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Theory
Intersectionality & Social Location Frameworks
Ancestral & Embodied Healing Perspectives
Liberatory & Anti-Oppressive Clinical Application
Cost: $140
Register Here: https://form.jotform.com/tashahunterlcsw/locating-self-registration-form
Embodying Erotic Power: Healing Our Relationship with Intuition, Feeling, and Self
Embodying Erotic Power
Healing Our Relationship with Intuition, Feeling, and Self
Investment: $90
A live 2-hour experiential training
2 NBCC contact hours. No prior Internal Family Systems (IFS) training required.
In 1978, Audre Lorde named the erotic as a source of power: our capacity to feel deeply, trust what we know, and live from that knowing. She was not writing about sex. She was writing about a way of being fully alive—a relationship with ourselves rooted in feeling, creativity, intuition, and embodied truth. She also wrote about what oppression, trauma, and survival ask us to abandon in order to belong.
Many helping professionals know this disconnection intimately.
Our training often rewards thinking over sensing, certainty over curiosity, and productivity over presence. Over time, many of us learn to question our intuition, override the wisdom of our bodies, and mistake numbness for professionalism.
This workshop is an invitation to return.
Together, we will explore the erotic as Lorde intended it: a source of life force, embodied knowing, creativity, and inner authority. We will examine the ways trauma, oppression, and protective strategies can distance us from our intuition, our feelings, and ourselves, and consider what becomes possible when we begin listening again.
Grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic awareness, and the writings of Black feminist scholars and poets, participants will be introduced to a compassionate framework for understanding the parts of ourselves that learned to distrust feeling. No previous IFS experience is required.
Through reflection, poetry, guided experiential practices, journaling, and discussion, participants will explore how reconnecting with the body's wisdom can strengthen intuition, deepen self-awareness, and cultivate a more compassionate relationship with themselves.
As we reconnect with our own embodied knowing, we naturally begin to show up differently—in our work, our relationships, our leadership, and our communities. We listen more deeply. We trust ourselves more fully. We make decisions from alignment rather than fear. We remember that the quality of our presence is one of the greatest gifts we bring to every space we enter. Come with curiosity, leave more connected to your Self.
Who Is This Workshop For?
This workshop was designed for mental health professionals, including counselors, social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, nurses, peer support specialists, and other helping professionals.
Graduate students, interns, educators, coaches, spiritual care providers, allied health professionals, and lifelong learners with an interest in embodiment, intuition, and healing are also warmly welcome.
You are invited to arrive first as a human being and second as a professional. No previous experience with Internal Family Systems is required.
NBCC contact hours are available for eligible participants in accordance with NBCC guidelines.
Participants Will Leave With:
2 NBCC Contact Hours (ACEP #8104)
A deeper understanding of Audre Lorde's concept of the erotic as a source of embodied knowing, creativity, and power
A practical understanding of how trauma, oppression, and protective parts can disconnect us from intuition, feeling, and Self
An experiential framework for recognizing and reconnecting with the wisdom of the body
Guided embodiment, reflection, and journaling practices that can be continued beyond the workshop
New language for understanding intuition, embodied knowing, and the role of Self in healing
Downloadable handouts and reflection prompts
An opportunity to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and learn alongside a community of helping professionals
Register Here: https://pci.jotform.com/tashahunterlcsw/embodying-erotic-power-workshop-hea
What We Miss With Suicidal Parts
What We Miss With Suicidal Parts
A Lunch and Learn | 1.5 NBCC Hours
Most of us were trained to assess suicide risk. Few of us were taught to understand the suicidal part itself.
We learned the screeners, the protocols, the safety plans. We didn't learn what a suicidal part is protecting, or how to be with it once it's in the room.
This is not a protocol training. Understanding and connection with the part. Respect for the part. That is the intervention — not a scale, not an assessment, not insurance or organizational demands.
This 90-minute session is an IFS-informed introduction to suicidal parts — the misconceptions that shape how we respond, the clinical considerations that matter, and how to enter these conversations with more steadiness and compassion.
We are looking at suicidal parts in a way mainstream suicide trainings leave out. That includes the impact of intergenerational trauma, racialized trauma, colonization and capitalism, and oppression. This training is intersectional and honors the Global Majority, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ communities.
This session is a preview of Understanding and Working with Suicidal Parts, the five-week intensive training series beginning Monday, October 26, 2026.
Who this training is for
Social workers, psychologists, mental health professionals, students, and interns. No prior IFS experience required.
Many of us carry our own histories with suicide. Tend to yourself as we go.
This is the noon hour. Bring your lunch. Come as you are.
Held by Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW — IFS Level 3 Certified Therapist and IFS Institute-Approved Consultant.
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
1. Describe how the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model understands suicidal parts and the protective roles they serve.
2. Identify common misconceptions about suicidal parts that shape clinical assessment and response.
3. Explain how intergenerational trauma, racialized trauma, colonization, and oppression influence the experience and expression of suicidal parts.
4. Name at least two IFS-informed practices for approaching conversations about suicidal parts with connection and respect.
What you will leave with
-A clearer understanding of what suicidal parts protect.
-Language for the conversations you've been navigating by instinct.
-A steadier way to be with what these disclosures stir in your own system.
-A different first question to ask: what is this part carrying?
-The full slide deck and a take-home tool to support your work with clients.
Format
This is a live, virtual training held via Zoom.
This session is not recorded, on purpose. Bring your real questions and the moments that stayed with you. We'll work with some of them live — ten to fifteen minutes are protected for case reflection. Please de-identify any client material you share.
Details
Monday, October 5, 2026
12:00–1:30 PM ET
Your Zoom link arrives with your registration confirmation.
Continuing education
This session offers 1.5 NBCC clock hours. Full live attendance is required for CE credit. Certificates are emailed within one week of completion of the evaluation.
Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #8104. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Ascension Growth Center, PLLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
This training is committed to accessibility and ADA compliance. Participants requiring accommodations are encouraged to submit requests in advance. The Provider is dedicated to ensuring an inclusive learning environment for all participants and will promptly address accommodation requests in alignment with federal, state, and local ADA guidelines.
Investment
$70
No refunds for missed attendance.
Registration Link: https://pci.jotform.com/form/261856958322165
Choosing Ourselves
Choosing Ourselves: A Gathering for Those Who Have Chosen Distance
Estrangement is one of the most silenced forms of grief. There is no ritual for it, no casserole, no language that fits. If you have chosen distance from a family member — or you are still deciding — this gathering is for you.
On October 20th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM EST, therapist and author Tasha Hunter, LCSW and Marta Isabella Sierra Cifuentes, LMHC will hold a two-hour virtual community space for adults navigating estrangement at every stage. You will hear our stories, sit in small group conversation, and leave with language for what you have been carrying — and permission to keep choosing yourself.
This is not a support group. It is not a training. It is a room that knows what you mean when you say: I had to go.
All sharing is optional. All experiences are welcome. Registration is capped at 20.
Support Rate: $100 | Standard Rate: $75 | Global Majority Rate: $50
Co-Facilitator Marta Isabella Sierra Cifuentes, LMHC
She is a survivor of adoption legally trafficked from Colombia as an infant. She is a queer/pansexual, polyamorous, cis-gendered woman and an adoption abolitionist. She brings all of herself into her work with clients in individual and group work. She is also passionate about supervising and consulting. Her practice is centered on adult adoptees/survivors of adoption who identify as people of color or the global majority. Her strengths, in addition to adoption trauma, are liberation/estrangement, racial trauma, identity and cultural reclamation, exploration of non-traditional relationship styles, healing from white supremacy culture, and search and reunion support (before, during, and long-term maintenance.) She is a decolonizing somatic-based therapist trained in expressive therapy and IFS which is the lens she brings to healing from complex PTSD.
Email: martasierralmhc@gmail.com Instagram: Sierra.speaks.verdad
Co-Facilitator Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW
Tasha Hunter, LCSW is a therapist, author, and trainer who has lived the work she now guides others through. Estranged from her family of origin since she was seventeen, she understands — from the inside — what it means to choose distance and build a life on the other side of it.
Tasha works with adults who have survived a wide range of family dynamics: emotional neglect, physical abuse, harsh or unpredictable environments, parental abandonment, religious trauma, and addiction, among others. Her clinical approach is shaped as much by lived experience as by credential. She teaches individuals and groups how to embody self-love and self-leadership, and how to create and nurture chosen family.
She is a national and international trainer who has worked with over 1,000 clinicians. Her writing and teaching center liberation psychology, ancestral wisdom.
Email: tashahunterlcsw@gmail.com/Instagram: instagram.com/tashahunterlcsw/
Registration link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/tashahuntermswlcsw/2276160
Coming Back to Life: Healing Suicidal Parts
Understanding and Working with Suicidal Parts
A 5-Week Advanced IFS-Informed Training for Mental Health Professionals
Mondays, October 26 – November 23, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST | Virtual via Zoom
18 NBCC Continuing Education Hours | ACEP #8104
October 26th Week 1 — The Foundation
Before we can work with suicidal parts, we have to understand what they are trying to do — and why they chose this.
November 2nd Week 2 — The Spectrum
Suicidal parts do not look the same across every age, every loss, or every family — and our clinical response cannot either.
November 9th Week 3 — The Soma
The body knows something is wrong before the words arrive — this week we learn to listen to it.
November 16th Week 4 — Culture and Identity
Who gets to have a suicidal part that is understood, believed, and held with care is never a neutral question.
November 23rd Week 5 — Clinician Parts
We will discuss the parts that show up while working with clients and our own suicidal parts — grace and room for both.
This is not another risk assessment training. Over five Mondays, we will go inside the suicidal part — its function, its protective logic, its relationship to grief, culture, identity, the body, and the clinician in the room. Rooted in Internal Family Systems, decolonized practice, and lived experience.
Each session is available as a standalone or as part of the full series.
Mental Health Professionals
Full Series: $700 | Individual Session: $200
Students and Interns
Full Series: $500 | Individual Session: $130
Participants who complete the Lunch and Learn on October 7 receive a $70 credit toward the full series.
Want to go deeper after the training ends? A consultation group will be available for those who want continued support and clinical practice beyond the five weeks.
Only participants who attend the live session and associated requirements receive NBCC credit.
This cohort will fill. Registration closes October 23, 2026.
Registration coming soon. Email tashahunterlcsw@gmail.com to be added to the waitlist.
Unburdening the Exile Skills Development Group
UNBURDENING THE EXILE
A 5-Week IFS Consultation Group for IFS trained professionals
You completed the training, you have the worksheets. You know the steps— intellectually.
But when an exile surfaces in session, you second-guess the direction. You move past the process faster than you mean to. Or you stay, but you're not sure you're doing it right.
That's what this group is for.
WHAT THIS IS
Unburdening the Exile is a five-week small-group consultation experience for IFS-informed practitioners who are ready to stop avoiding the exile process and start trusting themselves.
Six clinicians. Eight hours. Real cases. Guided practice.
We move through the full unburdening sequence — entry, witnessing, retrieval, unburdening, integration — session by session, with time to practice, get stuck, ask the actual questions, and try again.
WHO THIS IS FOR
You are a licensed clinician who has completed an IFS training ( IFS Level I, IFSCA, QTBIPOC IFS, PESI/Evergreen, or other programs)
You understand the model. You believe in it. And you still feel uncertain when exile work appears — uncertain how to begin, uncertain how to stay, uncertain what to do when something unexpected happens.
You want more time with the process. You want to practice in a space where getting it wrong is part of the point.
This group is for you.
THE SCHEDULE
Session 1 | November 5 | 2:00–3:30 PM
Session 2 | November 19 | 2:00–3:30 PM
Session 3 | December 3 | 2:00–3:30 PM
Session 4 | December 17 | 2:00–3:30 PM
Session 5 | January 7 | 2:00–4:00 PM
THE DETAILS
Virtual via Zoom
Six clinicians maximum
Five sessions | Eight total hours that qualify for IFSI Certification
Biweekly — space to practice between sessions
$500 | Payment in full at registration
THIS GROUP IS NOT FOR YOU IF
You have not completed an IFS training. You are looking for CE hours. You want to observe rather than participate. You are not ready to bring real cases.
REGISTRATION COMING SOON!
Six spots. First come, first held.
Come Lay It Down Grief Retreat ( For Clinicians, Helpers, Leaders)
Come Lay It Down: In Person.
Saturday, November 21, 2026
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Studio 1104 @ 1104 W. Cabarrus Street, Raleigh, NC
$125 10 seats
An in-person gathering for clinicians, helpers, and leaders.
We sit with loss all day. We hold the room steady. Then the hour ends and the grief we absorbed goes wherever grief goes when there's no room for it.
It stays in the body. It comes home with us.
This is a room where nothing is required of us.
No curriculum. No processing. No being useful. Not supervision, not therapy. A gathering — for people who make space for everyone else.
What we do together
Grounding. Arriving in the room, in the body, in the afternoon.
Ink and Witness. Time with paper. No one reads it.
Optional sharing. If you want to speak, there is room. If you don't, that is also complete.
Guided practices. Somatic and reflective work, offered as invitation.
Reflective space. Unstructured time. To sit. To not answer anything.
Connection. Eleven other people who understand without explanation.
Softness. A place to be the one held.
What to know
Twelve people. That size is the point.
Bring your grief as it is. The fresh kind, the old kind, the kind that belongs to your clients but lives in you now. Nothing needs to be resolved to be welcome.
Comfortable clothing.
No CE credit. This one is not for your license. It's for you.
Interest form:https://forms.gle/Nv8EpfP9rbZ2L7c56
Submitting the form does not hold a seat. We will follow up with registration details and a payment deadline.
This Body: A Space of Reclamation
This Body: A Space of Reclamation is a 10-week virtual healing container for women — cis and trans — nonbinary femmes, and gender-expansive people who move through the world as femme. It is not open to cisgender men or men of any identity.
This container is specifically for survivors of childhood sexual abuse, molestation, childhood or adolescent sexual assault, emotional sexual incest, sexual grooming, and teen sexual violence. If you have been carrying any of these experiences — in silence, in therapy, in survival mode, or somewhere in between — this space was built with you in mind.
Dates: January 12th , 19th, 26th Feb 9th, 16th, March 2nd, March 9th, 16th, March 23rd, April 6th 2027
Time: 5PM-6:30PM EST
Investment: $50, $40, $25 Per session / $500, $400, $250 total cost for the entire cohort
Pay according to your financial capacity, If you need payment plan reach out.
Feeling It All: A Virtual Gathering for Global Majority and BIPOC Adults
Feeling It All is a small virtual gathering for Global Majority and BIPOC adults who are moving through the weight of being human right now. People who are holding grief alongside gratitude. Exhaustion alongside love. Hope and uncertainty at the same time.
DATE: July 27th, 2026
Time: 4PM - 5:30PM
Cost: $30/$40/$50
This space is affirming of all sex and gender identities.
Who This Is For:
This may be true for you:
You feel things deeply.
You exist in a liminal space of grief, loss, exhaustion, or change.
You identify as highly sensitive, introverted, or neurodivergent.
You want community and support.
What Global Majority Means Here
Global Majority refers to people who are Black, Indigenous, and of color — communities that together make up the majority of the world's population. This includes people of African, Afro-Caribbean, Asian, East Asian, South Asian, Southeast Asian, Latinx, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, North African, Pacific Islander, and multiracial heritage, among others.
Why This Matters
We can be grateful and exhausted in the same hour. Relieved and heartbroken in the same breath. Connected to others and deeply lonely all at once.
What We Will Do Together
This is a small gathering. Capacity is limited.
There is no pressure to speak, share, or be seen. Your camera can stay off the entire time. You will not be called on. You will not be put on the spot.
Arrival:We begin with music and breath. A chance to actually land before anything else happens.
Reflection and Journaling: You will be invited to sit with questions like: What am I carrying right now? What feels heavy? What is still alive in me? What am I grieving? What am I grateful for?
These are invitations. You decide what to do with them, if anything.
Somatic Practices: We will move slowly through practices that help you come back to yourself — breathwork, gentle movement, guided reflection, music, silence. Every practice will be offered with options. You participate in whatever way works for your body that day.
Community: There will be space to listen, to share if you want, or to simply be present. Speaking is one way to participate. Sitting quietly is another. Both are complete.
Resources: You will leave with journaling prompts and reflection practices to keep working with what comes up after the gathering ends.
Closing We close together — honoring what we brought into the room and naming what we want to carry forward.
What People Often Leave With
More room to breathe than they arrived with.
Language for something they had been carrying but could not name.
A real connection with others who gets it.
Permission to feel what they actually feel.
Register Here: https://form.jotform.com/tashahunterlcsw/feeling-it-all
Come Lay It Down: A Grief Gathering for Mental Health Clinicians
This space is for therapists, social workers, psychologists, careworkers, and healers — those who spend their lives tending to others and deserve a place to be tended to.
What started as a quarterly offering became bi-monthly. Now it is monthly. That shift tells us clinicians are hungry for spaces where we do not have to perform wellness or carry our grief in isolation.
We'll gather on Zoom. We'll ground, breathe, reflect, and remember. You are invited to lay down your roles, your redentials, your armor — and let yourself be witnessed.
Bring your grief over a loved one, a relationship, estrangement, burnout, your health, a previous version of yourself. Bring the weight of racism and oppression. Bring the heartbreak of this field, the exhaustion of caregiving, the ache of aloneness. Bring your sadness, your laughter, your numbness, your desire to simply be in the presence of others. There is no one right way to grieve and no one right way to show up.
There will be space to name your grief, sing it, sway with it, cry, laugh, whisper, or sit in silence. We will make room for grief and joy, exhaustion and hope, tenderness and truth — all that lives in the sacred space between.
Date: June 26th, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST Investment: $25–$50
Register Here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/261462864287164
IFS Level 1 Consultation
Meeting Dates (2026):June 2, June 16, June 30, July 14
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EST/11AM-12:30PST
Meeting Date July 28 2PM - 4PM EST/ 11AM-1PST
Registration Group Size: Limited to 6 IFSI Level 1 Graduates/ Total of 8 IFSI Approved Group Consultation Hours
Cost: $600 per person (may be split into two payments)
If you need a payment plan, please contact me before registering.
This consultation group is LGBTQIA+ affirming and led, and a neuroexpansive-led and affirming space.
Come prepared to explore:
How to care for and understand your clinician parts
Case consultation and collaborative discussion
Model Q&A and practical application support
IFSI Program Assistant (PA) preparation and readiness
Parts wounded within the IFSI community and collective healing
Decolonizing the model and adapting it to your community’s cultural, ancestral, and lived realities
Behind the Chair Closed Group Container
This container is open to all licensed mental health therapists who attended Behind the Chair. It is designed with Global Majority clinicians at the center — Black, Indigenous, and clinicians of color who are carrying the weight of this work in systems that were not built for them. All are welcome. The room is built around that experience.
About This Container
You did the work.
Now go deeper.
Behind the Chair named things you already knew but had not found language for. The exhaustion that sleep does not fix. The cases that follow you home. The parts of yourself that have been holding more than they were ever asked to hold.
The Tending Circle is what comes next.
This is a small, closed group of mental health therapists who are ready to move from understanding these concepts to actually living them. Over five sessions, we will use the WITNESS Framework, IFS-informed tending practices, and the accumulated trust of a small group to go somewhere the training could only point toward.
You bring what is real. What is happening in your work right now. The case that activated you this week. The pattern you keep noticing in yourself. The part that has been waiting for a room like this. The group holds it together.
This is tending to you and your parts that exists behind the chair.
This is professional restoration. And it is only available to those who have already been in the room.
Investment: $600 ( Payments may be split into two or three)
Dates: May 26th, June 9th, June 23rd, July 7th, July 21st
Time: 5PM-6:30PM EST
Together in the Carrying: A Community Grief Check-IN for medical and mental health professionals
We will gather together via Zoom to experience the healing power of what happens when we come together, take time for ourselves, and fill our own medicine cups.
We will share, connect, and engage in gentle practices designed to center and nurture our soul-weary parts. Lay down your titles, roles, and responsibilities—just for a little while—and allow yourself and your parts to be tended to. Together, we’ll create space for grounding, presence, and the reminder that we are not alone in what we carry.
If you are grieving loved ones, a life transition, health challenges, a previous version of yourself, racism and oppression, being a woman, a Black woman, a queer person, aloneness, grieving through vicarious trauma, or grieving the weight of being a lifelong caretaker—whatever your grief—bring it. Each of you will have an opportunity to name your grief, sing your grief, sway, laugh, read—share in whatever way resonates most deeply with your soul’s desire. We will claim both grief and joy and all that lives in between.
Registration Here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/260493609184160
NASW NC Virtual Clinical Social Work Institute
My Topic will be Holding the Weight Together: Radical Imagination for Social Work Practice
Beyond the Block: Navigating Resistance, Shutdown, and Stuck Points —More details to come.
Beyond the Block: Navigating Stuck Points in Clinical Work (Part 2) Date: Monday, April 27, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Cost: $65 Format: Live Virtual Training via Zoom CEUs: No CEUs offered | Certificate of Completion provided upon submission of Post-Training Evaluation
This expanded, three-hour training picks up where Part 1 left off—going deeper into each stuck point, making space for live demonstration, and creating room for your real clinical questions. Drawing from trauma-informed frameworks, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic awareness, and anti-oppressive clinical practice, we'll explore the forces that create shutdown, resistance, and therapeutic impasse—and what it actually takes to move through them.
This time, we're also naming what often goes unspoken: the clients whose self-awareness and cognitive sophistication can mask their own stuckness, the clinicians who miss what they can't yet see, and the neurodivergent presentations—diagnosed and undiagnosed—that quietly drive some of the most challenging clinical moments in the room.
Learn More and Register Here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/260573989690172
2026 Tending the Healer Mentorship
Dates
We will meet on the following dates:
April 21st, 2026 from 2:00 PM–3:30 PM EST
May 19th, 2026
June 23rd, 2026
July 21st, 2026
Group Structure
This mentorship pod meets monthly for four sessions. Each session is 90 minutes. Group size is intentionally limited to 8 participants to ensure depth, connection, and individualized support.
Who This Is For
This space is designed for new clinicians seeking grounding and guidance as well as seasoned clinicians looking for community and support. It is an LGBTQIA-led and neuroexpansive-led space open to all mental health professionals who want to decolonize their work, explore their clinical identity, and receive support around private practice, purpose, and sustainability. Clinicians exploring expansion in their career, marketing, creative offerings, or trauma-informed community work will find this space especially beneficial.
Behind the Therapy Chair: The Parts We Don't Talk About
Register and Learn More Here: https://ssw.unc.edu/event/behind-the-therapy-chair-the-parts-we-dont-talk-about-w-tasha-hunter-lcsw/
Clinicians carry more than the stories of the people they serve—they also carry their own history, systemic pressures, and the unspoken emotional weight of the work. Yet, in the field of social work and mental health, we rarely make space to explore the clinician’s inner life. This 3-day, experiential training uses the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model to help social workers and mental health professionals identify, map, and tend to the “parts” that emerge in professional practice. Participants will explore parts that develop early in a clinician’s career, those that surface during burnout, moral injury, and vicarious trauma, and the often-unspoken parts that appear in moments of rupture, self-doubt, loneliness, and systemic strain.
Through a combination of didactic teaching, guided meditations, structured reflection, and experiential breakout groups, participants will:
Identify clinician parts activated by challenging clinical situations, systemic inequities, and personal life events.
Practice skills for unblending from activated parts and connecting to Self-energy in the moment.
Explore how to tend to exiled parts carrying the emotional residue of client stories.
Name and normalize experiences often left unspoken in the field, including grief, frustration, ethical dilemmas, identity fatigue, and financial strain.
Develop sustainable, values-aligned practices for maintaining longevity and integrity in the work.
This training offers a safe, compassionate space to acknowledge what it means to be a helping professional today—and to leave with greater clarity, self-compassion, and connection to the “why” that brought you to this work.
Format:
The course blends short lectures, large group discussions, guided meditations, journaling, and small group experiential exercises. The training emphasizes participant choice, emotional pacing, and the creation of a supportive learning environment.
Audacious Joy ( Therapist Edition)
Audacious Joy is a 90-minute virtual gathering for therapists and mental health clinicians — and it is unlike anything on your CE calendar. We are not here to unpack all that is wrong, violent, traumatic, or unjust. We are not here to process, analyze, or optimize. We are here to remember who we are and how it feels when joy is felt.
This is a space where you show up as a human being who deserves joy just as much as anyone you have ever served.
We know it can feel strange — even indulgent — to choose joy when so much is broken, when your caseload is heavy, when the world keeps asking more of you than it gives back. We are inviting you to do it anyway. Not as an escape. As an act of resistance and reclamation.
Using music, breath, and movement, we will locate joy we will practice collective softness together, in a space with no hierarchy and no clinical processing. Just presence. Just pleasure. Just you.
This space was designed with BIPOC and Global Majority clinicians, liberation-centered practitioners, and therapists doing justice-oriented work especially in mind — those who carry the weight of the world's pain and their own, often without a place to set it down. You are seen here. You are welcome here.
What to Expect
Arrival & Grounding
Joy Practice
Embodied Joy Reflection
Closing Ritual
Register here: https://pci.jotform.com/form/260575302400142
Embodying Erotic Power: Using Intuition, Curiosity, and Compassion to Reclaim Ourselves
https://www.witchytherapists.com/
Embodying Erotic Power: Using Intuition, Curiosity, and Compassion to Reclaim Ourselves (Saturday, 2/28 at 11:15am EST)
In this workshop, we’ll explore the intersection of feminine erotic power and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy to reclaim and honor our most sacred intuitive wisdom. Through the lens of Black, queer, and feminist poets and writers, we’ll engage in practices that center erotic power as life force, the importance of befriending intuition, and meeting fear with compassion. Together, we’ll learn how curiosity can become one of our most powerful tools for healing, transformation, and stepping into a life of abundance and ease.
Using IFS, we will explore how our parts—including our protectors and exiles—hold keys to unlocking the deeper truths of our bodies, desires, and creativity. By integrating IFS with practices of erotic wisdom and intuition, we’ll begin to embody our truths and activate a life of self-liberation.
This session is an invitation to slow down, feel deeply, and use the wisdom of your body and mind to reconnect with the power that lies within you, and learn to move through the world with presence, curiosity, and compassion.
Together in the Carrying: A Community Grief Check-IN for medical and mental health professionals
We will gather together via Zoom to experience the healing power of what happens when we come together, take time for ourselves, and fill our own medicine cups.
We will share, connect, and engage in gentle practices designed to center and nurture our soul-weary parts. Lay down your titles, roles, and responsibilities—just for a little while—and allow yourself and your parts to be tended to. Together, we’ll create space for grounding, presence, and the reminder that we are not alone in what we carry.
If you are grieving loved ones, a life transition, health challenges, a previous version of yourself, racism and oppression, being a woman, a Black woman, a queer person, aloneness, grieving through vicarious trauma, or grieving the weight of being a lifelong caretaker—whatever your grief—bring it. Each of you will have an opportunity to name your grief, sing your grief, sway, laugh, read—share in whatever way resonates most deeply with your soul’s desire. We will claim both grief and joy and all that lives in between.
Register here!
IFS Group Consultation
IFS Consultation for IFS Level 1 Graduates. We will meet for 5 sessions/90 minutes each. Come prepared to discuss the following:
How to help your clinician parts
Case Consultation
Model Q&A
Addressing IFSI PA Preparation
Parts Wounded in the IFSI Community
How to decolonize the model and make it culturally relevant for your community
The dates we meet will be February 9th, 2026, February 23rd. March 2nd, March 16th, March 23rd @ 2PM-3:30PM EST
Beyond Good Intentions: Recognizing & Repairing Implicit Bias for Therapists 3CEUS
As therapists, many of us strive to be inclusive and affirming—but the truth is, we’ve all internalized messages from a world shaped by racism, sexism, homophobia, fatphobia, and other systems of oppression. These messages don’t disappear at the therapy room door. In this workshop, Tasha Hunter, LCSW, invites participants into a reflective, non-shaming space to explore how implicit bias shows up in clinical work—and what we can do to repair and reconnect when it does.
Through the lens of trauma-informed care, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and lived experience, Tasha Hunter guides participants in identifying subtle ways bias can emerge—through language, tone, assumptions, and silence. This is not about getting it perfect—it’s about staying present, being accountable, and returning to a relationship when harm has occurred. Participants will leave with greater awareness, practical strategies, and the courage to keep showing up with humility and care.
Unspoken Wounds: Reclaiming Voice, Reality, and Self After Covert Trauma
https://therapywisdom.com/the-trauma-wisdom-circle/
This training is designed to equip clinicians with a deeper understanding of covert trauma and its profound impact on a client’s sense of self, reality, and emotional safety. Drawing from her expertise, Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW, guides participants in recognizing the subtle yet pervasive patterns of emotional minimization, gaslighting, and relational erasure that often go unseen in clinical settings. The educational goal of this presentation is to strengthen clinicians’ ability to identify covert trauma, apply culturally responsive and anti-oppressive
IFS interventions, support clients in rebuilding embodied self-trust and boundary clarity, and integrate consent-based practices that honor agency and emotional sovereignty. Ultimately, participants will leave with increased confidence and competence in addressing invisible wounds through a trauma-informed, inclusive, and liberation-centered lens.
Together in the Carrying: A Community Grief Check-IN
We will gather together via Zoom to experience the healing power of what happens when we come together, take time for ourselves, and fill our own medicine cups.
We will share, connect, and engage in gentle practices designed to center and nurture our soul-weary parts. Lay down your titles, roles, and responsibilities—just for a little while—and allow yourself and your parts to be tended to. Together, we’ll create space for grounding, presence, and the reminder that we are not alone in what we carry.
If you are grieving loved ones, a life transition, health challenges, a previous version of yourself, racism and oppression, being a woman, a Black woman, a queer person, aloneness, grieving through vicarious trauma, or grieving the weight of being a lifelong caretaker—whatever your grief—bring it. Each of you will have an opportunity to name your grief, sing your grief, sway, laugh, read—share in whatever way resonates most deeply with your soul’s desire. We will claim both grief and joy and all that lives in between.
Together in the Carrying: A Community Grief Check-IN (2nd event)
We will gather together via Zoom to experience the healing power of what happens when we come together, take time for ourselves, and fill our own medicine cups.
We will share, connect, and engage in gentle practices designed to center and nurture our soul-weary parts. Lay down your titles, roles, and responsibilities—just for a little while—and allow yourself and your parts to be tended to. Together, we’ll create space for grounding, presence, and the reminder that we are not alone in what we carry.
If you are grieving loved ones, a life transition, health challenges, a previous version of yourself, racism and oppression, being a woman, a Black woman, a queer person, aloneness, grieving through vicarious trauma, or grieving the weight of being a lifelong caretaker—whatever your grief—bring it. Each of you will have an opportunity to name your grief, sing your grief, sway, laugh, read—share in whatever way resonates most deeply with your soul’s desire. We will claim both grief and joy and all that lives in between.
Black IFS Collaborative Professional Will conversation ( 2nd EVENT)
This free event is designed for therapists who:
Have been meaning to create a professional will but don’t know where to begin.
Feel parts of themselves resist the conversation because of fear, discomfort, or superstition.
Worry about what will happen to their clients, their notes, or their practice if something unexpected occurs.
Carry parts that think about death often but feel they have no safe place to bring these thoughts.
Need community and support while navigating a topic that often feels too heavy to carry alone.
Together we’ll:
Normalize the fears and protective parts that arise when facing mortality.
Explore compassionate, anti-oppressive ways of approaching professional will-making.
Share practical steps and resources to help you clarify what to include.
Create space for reflection and grounding, so you leave feeling supported rather than overwhelmed.
This is not about “getting it all done in one sitting.” It’s about starting the conversation, honoring the parts of you that are afraid, the parts that are preoccupied with death, and finding a way forward with clarity and care.
Black IFS Collaborative Professional Will conversation
This free event is designed for therapists who:
Have been meaning to create a professional will but don’t know where to begin.
Feel parts of themselves resist the conversation because of fear, discomfort, or superstition.
Worry about what will happen to their clients, their notes, or their practice if something unexpected occurs.
Carry parts that think about death often but feel they have no safe place to bring these thoughts.
Need community and support while navigating a topic that often feels too heavy to carry alone.
Together we’ll:
Normalize the fears and protective parts that arise when facing mortality.
Explore compassionate, anti-oppressive ways of approaching professional will-making.
Share practical steps and resources to help you clarify what to include.
Create space for reflection and grounding, so you leave feeling supported rather than overwhelmed.
This is not about “getting it all done in one sitting.” It’s about starting the conversation, honoring the parts of you that are afraid, the parts that are preoccupied with death, and finding a way forward with clarity and care.
Burn Out IFS Group Consultation
This special reduced-fee group is for clinicians navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, or a sense of disconnection from the work they once loved. It’s a healing space to care for your overworked parts while still receiving high-quality IFS consultation.
Bi-Weekly IFS Group Consultation for IFS-Informed or IFS-Inspired Clinicians
IFS Group Consultation for clinicians who have not completed IFS Level 1 Training.
All IFS-Inspired and IFS-Informed Clinicians are welcome!
Biweekly (6 Sessions)
Time: 3pm-5pm EST
Dates: 6/23/2025, 7/7/2025, 7/21/2025, 8/4/2025, 8/8/2025, 9/8/2025
Cost $750
Bi-Weekly IFS Group Consultation for iFS Level 1-TRAINED clinicians
Bi-weekly IFS Group Consultation for IFS Level 1-Trained Clinicians. Biweekly (6 sessions)
Time: 12–2pm EST
Dates: 6/23/2025, 7/7/2025, 7/21/2025, 8/4/2025, 8/8/2025, 9/8/2025
Cost : $750
Monthly IFS Group Consultation for IFS-Inspired or IFS-Informed Clinicians
IFS Consultation for IFS -Inspired or IFS-Informed Clinicians who have not completed IFS Level-1 Training
All Clinicians welcomed
Monthly (6 Sessions)
Time: 3pm-5pm EST
Dates: 6/20/2025, 7/18/2025, 8/29/2025, 9/26/2025, 10/24/2025, 11/14/2025
Cost $750
Monthly IFS Consultation Groups
Monthly IFS Group Consultation for IFS Level 1- Trained Clinicians
(6 sessions)
Time: 12–2pm EST
Dates: 6/20/2025, 7/18/2025, 8/29/2025, 9/26/2025, 10/24/2025, 11/14/2025
Cost $ 750
University of North Carolina 3-Day IFS Training
This Internal Family Systems (IFS) workshop provides information on IFS from the ground up and how to adapt it flexibly to meet diverse client needs and issues. This workshop brings together two IFS certified therapists who will share and demonstrate their perspectives, experience, and style of engagement with IFS. Participants will learn the IFS framework and language, how to introduce IFS practices to clients, and how to work with clients’ vulnerable parts that carry past hurts, protective parts that guard against pain and manage daily challenges, and self-energy that supports healing. The workshop includes the topics of legacy and cultural burdens and unburdening “exiles” – parts burdened with pain, shame, fear, and other intense emotions from past traumas, often suppressed due to their overwhelming nature. Participants will also explore different ways to apply IFS and gain insights on how to choose the best approaches for each situation. Therapists will practice skills for managing their own internal systems during therapy sessions, including tracking and managing triggered parts. Live demonstrations by Tasha and Deborah, and small group activities, will help participants integrate IFS principles into clinical work, fostering deeper therapeutic connections and transformative healing processes.
IFS Consultation Groups
Group Size: 4–6 participants
Cost: $90 per person per session | 8 sessions = $720 total
Structure:
Short grounding/meditation
Practice sessions
Role-playing key interventions
Case consultation
Q&A and skill development
Groups & Schedule
Group 1
Start Date: March 10, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST
Other Dates: 3/24, 4/7, 4/21, 5/5, 5/19, 6/2, 6/16, 6/30
Group 2
Start Date: March 14, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST
Other Dates: 3/28, 4/11, 4/25, 5/9, 5/23, 6/6, 6/20, 7/11
Facilitating IFS Trainings:
Introduction to Internal Family Systems and Parts Work
Anti-Oppressive Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Moral Injury and Suicide
Self-Harm, Suicide, and Compassionate Endings
Legacy Burdens and Intergenerational Healing
UNC School of Social Work Politics Panel
Politics stay outside of the therapy space, or do they? A panel on ethics, perspectives and models w/Asia Tonja Marie Amos, Ph.D., Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW, and Jennifer Plumb Vilardaga, Ph.D.
