Desirée Israel on Clubhouse

Bio

Mom of 2; LCSW-C; (Board Approved) Clinical Supervisor; MSW Field Instructor; Black perinatal mental health specialist; HBCU bred (Morgan State) PhD student at a PWI (Widener); Womanist; Liberation focused clinician and herbalist; Fluid 🌈

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Co-Founder, Perinatal Mental Health Alliance for People of Color
Co-Founder, The Bloom Collective
Owner, Motherland Co.

From Rochester, NY residing in Baltimore, MD

Ask Me About/Research interests:

-African centered modalities in mental health
-Herbalism: Birth + Mental Health + Women’s Health
-Black co-parenting/village parenting/unpartnered parenting
-teen parent foster care programs
-reproductive justice, perinatal mental health and the Black birthing experience
-Sexual identities of Black feminists, womanists and Africana womanists
-African Traditional Religions + Spirituality