Therapy That Liberates
The systems we were trained to work inside are collapsing. What is your role now?
A monthly consultation group, guided by Dr. Shawna, for licensed practitioners ready to meet this moment with clarity and liberatory intent.
Virtual via Zoom
Mar 11 · Apr 8 · May 13
We have been handed a script.
Be passive. Endure. Do more with less. Stay quiet as the fabric of our professions is reconfigured. We are expected to watch it happen, uphold the structure, and make it easier to disappear our people.
We will not.
The TTL Consultation Group is where licensed practitioners build the skill, knowledge, and insight to practice otherwise. Dr. Shawna guides a rigorous investigation of liberatory ethics, decision-making, and clinical praxis, with reading and growth work between sessions.
This work is rooted in embodied praxis and held with the Womanist triad of concern, as articulated by Layli Maparyan: tending our relationships with one another, with nature, and with spirit. Liberation cannot be practiced by exploiting ourselves, so practitioners learn to serve without self-abandonment.
- Fully licensed practitioners
- Prior training in a liberatory framework, with Dr. Shawna or another educator
- Working in clinical practice, supervision, or organizational leadership
Enrollment includes a detailed questionnaire.
Questions practitioners bring
- I want to be an anti-capitalist practitioner, and I still need to earn a living. What does that look like inside a capitalist system?
- What does it mean to work inside, outside, or at the intersection of the mental health system with liberatory intent?
- What is my job as systems collapse?
- My role runs contrary to my ethics and worldview. What do I do with that?
- How do I decide which modality to use, and whose knowledge does it center?
- What do liberation, power, anti-colonial, and anti-oppressive actually mean in mental health care?
How it works
Guided inquiry
Dr. Shawna offers teaching, then the group works through members’ situations using the LFH Framework and the What Now? Map, an ethics tool for naming power, values, and cost.
Engage and contribute
Present, reflect, or step into role-play. Every member shapes the analysis.
Read and reflect
Readings and growth work that deepen your practice.
Connect
A private space to connect with colleagues between sessions.
Situations are submitted by 12pm ET the Monday before each session.
Members have access to one another from the start. The TTL Network, a wider network of practitioners centered on political education, launches after February 2027, and Consultation Group members will have access.
2nd Thursday of each month
9:30 to 11:30am ET · Zoom
- Session 1December 10, 2026
- Session 2January 14, 2027
- Session 3February 11, 2027
- Session 4March 11, 2027
- Session 5April 8, 2027
- Session 6May 13, 2027
- 6 live monthly sessions with Dr. Shawna, 2 hours each
- Private group space between sessions
- TTL Network access once it launches in 2027
- 1:1 clinical consultation available, $250/session
This is not for everyone
- A support group or venting space
- A place to process feelings without analysis
- A validation circle
- For practitioners still deciding whether liberatory practice applies to them
- A working group with a shared framework and shared accountability
- Rigorous, honest, collectively held practice
- For practitioners ready to have their analysis challenged
- A place to build the trust that collective work requires
Join the TTL Consultation Group
Members join for six months at a time and can renew. Enrollment closes December 8.
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Step 1
Enroll and pay
Choose monthly ($275, first payment due at enrollment) or pay in full ($1,650).
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Step 2
Complete the questionnaire
Share your license, training, practice setting, and the questions you are bringing. Your spot is confirmed once it is complete.
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Step 3
Get ready
Receive your Zoom link, the private group space, and your first readings before December 10.
By enrolling, you confirm you are fully licensed and have prior training in a liberatory framework.
Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne
Dr. Shawna Murray-Browne (she/her/hers) is a liberatory strategist, community scholar, spiritualist, mind-body healer, and professional speaker, and the founder of the Liberation-Focused Healing Framework. Over more than 13 years, she has worked in residential treatment, grassroots community organizing, child welfare policy, research, community school settings, and juvenile detention centers.
She is the Principal Consultant at Kindred Wellness LLC in Baltimore, trained as an integrative psychotherapist, and the creator of the What Now? training series. She identifies as a Womanist, is informed by African-Centered and Black Radical teachings, and draws on her lived experience navigating carceral, oppressive institutions and co-creating free, radical healing space for Black folk young and wise.
- PhD · University of Maryland, School of Social Work
- LCSW-C · Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Maryland
- Founder · Liberation-Focused Healing Framework
The system will not recover. We have to create a therapy that liberates.
It is time to cultivate the skill, knowledge, and insight this moment requires.
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