From Carrying to Caring: Healing the Healer Training Track
Online Training for Clinicians of Color
About this Training
Training Title: The Embodied Clinician: Shifting from Just Talk Therapy to Energetic & Somatic Release
Date: August 10, 2026
Time: 5-7 PM EST
Stop working so hard just to stay in the same place. In this session, we go beyond “just talking” to explore why your clients—and you—are getting stuck in cycles of exhaustion and burnout. We’re bridging the gap between clinical mental health mastery and the radical power of energetic release.
-Beyond the “Blah Blah Blah”: Understand why the vast majority of trauma is stored in the “pre-verbal” brain and why traditional talk therapy literally cannot reach the layers where your clients are most stuck.
-Stop Being a “Psychic Sponge”: Discover the science of how energy is transferred in the clinical space and why you leave your office feeling drained by everyone else’s “stuff.”
-The Power of the Shift: Explore how mindfulness and energetic techniques, like Reiki, create an immediate “reset” for the nervous system that talk therapy alone can’t replicate.
-The Path to Radical Healing: Learn how to identify when a client needs more than a coping skill and how integrating energetic release can protect your own peace while accelerating your client’s transformation.
Training Title: Take Off the Cape: Releasing Internalized Expectations of Strength in Clinicians of Color
Date: August 31, 2026
Time: 5-7 PM EST
This training examines how internalized cultural expectations of strength affect burnout, professional boundaries, and clinical decision making among clinicians of color. Participants will explore the role of identity, emotional labor, and overfunctioning using trauma informed and culturally responsive frameworks. The training provides evidence informed strategies that support clinician sustainability while maintaining ethical and effective client care. Participants will gain practical tools applicable to clinical practice, supervision, and organizational settings.
About Your Trainers
Avalaura Gaither, MSW, LGSW, is a globally recognized Celebrity Life Coach and Intuitive Consultant who earned both her Bachelor’s in Psychology and Master’s in Social Work with honors from Howard University. As the author of the Girl, Live Your Fcking Life* self-love guided journal, she is a disruptive force in the wellness space, specializing in shifting clients and organizations from settling to radical authenticity. Her expertise has been featured on major platforms like The Real Housewives of Potomac, The Huffington Post, The Root, Men’s Health, and Reader’s Digest, and she has delivered powerful talks to PayPal, Telstra, Topps Candy, the U.S. Secret Service, and the Air Force. A former Social Worker trained as a Reiki Master/Teacher, Hypnotherapist, Holistic Aromatherapist, and Yoga/Meditation instructor, Avalaura is renowned for her ability to blend clinical mental health mastery with a raw, “tell-it-like-it-is” approach to holistic healing.
Tara Ignont, LCSW, is a mental health leader and educator whose work centers on trauma, cultural identity, and provider sustainability. She serves as Director of EMPOWR at WestCoast Children’s Clinic, where she leads a multidisciplinary team delivering community-based mental health services to transitional-age youth. Tara teaches graduate counseling courses, including multicultural counseling and trauma-focused practice, as an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University and The Wright Institute. Her clinical orientation integrates trauma-informed, relational, and psychodynamic frameworks with attention to intergenerational and systemic trauma. Her work focuses on reducing burnout among clinicians of color through reflective supervision, identity-centered practice, and sustainable approaches to care.
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