Liberation is Black Wellness
Let's Get to Work
I am a healer, scholar-activist, and spacemaker committed to co-creating a world with more wellness and liberation for more of us. Whether through direct consultation work, public speaking engagements, the work of my non-profit (The WELLS Healing Center), individual and group coaching (Whole Wayves), I help people and organizations experience more wellness and liberation.
Speaking Events
As a recognized expert of Black wellness and healing racial trauma and a TEDx speaker, many organizations seek me out for public speaking engagements. I enjoy pushing the conversation forward in ways that inspire personal and collective action. Audiences and stakeholders appreciate that my talks are generally interactive, grounded in current research and events, sometimes quite vulnerable, and always illuminating. Book me for your next event.
*Willing to travel to spaces where proper COVID precautions are in place.
*Recordings must be negotiated up front.
Signature Talks & Topics
Finding Your Activism Lane
Preventing and Resisting Radical Trauma
Personal and Collective Wellness
Facilitating Wellness for Queer and Trans* People of Color
Being a Better Mentor
Practicing Cultural Mindfulness
Wellness Consultations
I provide consultation services in my areas of expertise: Black wellness, healing racial trauma, radical healing and radical hope, the wellness of queer and transgender People of Color, and critical consciousness development/activism. Email me below to discuss the details of your inquiry.
Consultation & Training Topics
Mentoring marginalized students and trainees
Enhancing Holistic Wellness in the Workplace Through Cultural Mindfulness
Applying the Radical Healing or Blafemme Healing Frameworks in Your Practice
Culturally Mindful Supervision of Mental HealthTrainees
Wholeness, Alignment, and Integration for Personal and Collective Wellness
Sex Positivity and Sex Education
Sexuality and Gender Diversity
Critical Consciousness Development and Activism
Black Feminisms in Qualitative Research
Testimonials
Straight from the Source
I have been to (and conducted) a lot of anti-racism trainings. And this was one of the best. Centering a Black feminist framework, it offered a vision of connection, healing, and hope while keeping it real and not pulling any punches.
DR. KAREN SUYEMOTO
University of Massachusetts-Boston Professor
It was one of the most purely feminist, woman-affirming things I have ever witnessed a person do. It was AWESOME. The way you brought your intellect and your emotions and your spirit and your purposes and intentions and values and everything into a totally present, totally focused process of doing. And then at the conclusion of the training, at the conclusion of your keynote, there it was, the brand new, beautiful being, brought fully into existence.
ANONYMOUS
Training and keynote participant
Can anyone of us here still afford to believe that efforts to reclaim the future can be private or individual? Can anyone here still afford to believe that the pursuit of liberation can be the sole and particular province of any one particular race, or sex, or age, or religion, or sexuality, or class?
Audre Lorde in "Learning from the 60s"
Organizations
Healing comes in many forms and my work helps facilitate healing in very diverse ways. Through the non-profit, The WELLS Healing Center, we offer training to aspiring healer-scholar-activists and provide community care through groups and trainings. Through Whole Wayves, we blend ancestral wisdom, somatic practice, Black feminist theory, and sacred storytelling to create coaching containers, immersive healing events, and curated personal rituals. And for those seeking a model for healing that is creative, immersive, and centered on Black wellness, explore Seeding Softness. This space offers practical tools and sacred storytelling designed to cultivate softness and joy in your healing journey.
WELLS Healing Center
The WELLS Healing Center is a non-profit organization that provides workshops and training using counseling psychology and Black feminist principles. The WELLS Healing Center also provides mentorship and training for mental health and wellness healers (e.g., counselors, coaches, etc.) that incorporates scholarship and activism.
Whole Wayves
Whole Wayves is a soft, sensuous healing-centered ecosystem that cultivates Black wellness for women, non-binary and queer folks journeying toward wholeness. Della blends ancestral wisdom, somatic practice, Black feminist theory, and sacred storytelling to create coaching containers, immersive healing events, and curated personal rituals. Grounded in liberation psychology and community-based interventions, Whole Wayves invites people to live into their fullness through tools for racial trauma healing, radical hope, and collective care; centering softness, joy, and mutual support as pathways to liberation.