We are not okay.
Most pretend not to see it.
We guide the work, get to the root, so there's nothing to unsee...
The School for Liberation-Focused Healing prepares mental health practitioners to practice, supervise, and lead in ways that free people instead of managing them.
Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne built the School on her Liberation-Focused Healing Framework and more than a decade of training clinicians across the country. The School centers descendants of Africans enslaved in the US and welcomes every practitioner committed to that work.
Continuing Education
Learn the foundations
Courses build and deepen your understanding of liberatory and decolonial practice inside US mental health systems. Decolonizing Therapy for Black Folk (DTBF) returns in a new, more accessible format. Each module stands alone as its own course, and practitioners who complete the full series earn a certificate.
New courses on ethics, serving Black women, and anti-oppression practice are on the way. Courses run live first and become available on demand later. CE credit is offered. COMING FEBRUARY 2027.
Clinical Praxis
Put it into Practice
The Therapy That Liberates (TTL) Consultation Group helps licensed practitioners apply liberatory concepts in clinical work, supervision, and organizational leadership.
Members meet monthly for two hours over six months and work through real cases and real dilemmas together. The group tends to the whole practitioner, not just the caseload. It is for practitioners who have already trained in a liberatory framework, with Dr. Shawna or with someone else. BEGINS DECEMBER 10 2026.
Collective Strategy
Stay Connected and Grounded
The Therapy That Liberates (TTL) Network connects practitioners across the country who work with and for the people most marginalized and who center Black people in their politic. Members get monthly political education from Dr. Shawna and invited speakers, skill sharing from practice, resources, and real ways to connect with each other.
The Network is for therapists ready to get off the couch: to locate themselves and their work, analyze power, and fortify for the work ahead in a time of collective crisis. COMING FEBRUARY 2027
Keynotes
Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne’s keynotes are not lectures. They are healing experiences.
Dr. Shawna comes to the stage as a clinician, a scholar, a qigong teacher, and a descendant of people who survived by holding on to their healing traditions. She brings all of that into the room. Audiences don’t just hear about healing. They practice it together, in real time, in their bodies.
In every keynote she weaves together:
Embodiment and qigong. Dr. Shawna invites the whole room to breathe, move, and come back into their bodies. Stress and trauma live in the body, and so does our capacity to release them.
Oral history and storytelling. She carries the stories of elders, ancestors, and the Black women whose lives shaped her research. Their wisdom turns abstract ideas into something people feel and remember.
Trauma-responsive care and capacity building. She names what overgiving, moral injury, and burnout cost the people who hold our communities together. Then she offers practices that build the capacity to keep going without sacrificing themselves.
Liberatory leadership. She calls leaders to lead from alignment instead of survival, and to build organizations where care is part of the strategy, not an afterthought.
People leave her keynotes with more than notes. They leave more present, more resourced, and clearer about how to act differently.
Select Keynotes
- Be Like BEA: Healing Ourselves While Healing Others, National Health Care for the Homeless Conference and Policy Symposium
- Find Your Flow: Three Keys to Healing for Black Women in Leadership, Women Consulting Corporate
- First, Reclaim Yourself: Lessons in Wellness from the Black Radical Tradition, Bryn Mawr College Black History Month Keynote
