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