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FREE PROVIDER RESOURCES & SUPPORT
Join us on the first Friday of every month!
This free Consulting & Networking Group is for female mental health therapists, counselors, social workers, and substance abuse counselors of color.
Peer consultation groups enhance self-awareness, critical thinking, and help to reduce feelings of practitioner isolation. With a grant from JP Morgan Chase, Fresh Start is developing and piloting interventions to decrease female BIPOC provider attrition through a provider peer consulting and networking group.
Meetings will be held the first Friday of each month at Fresh Start or online via Zoom! Lunch provided for all in-person attendees.
Why Join Us?
Free consultation
Provide and receive guidance on complex cases, ethical issues, countertransference, and more
Foster collegiality & community
A safe and reliable space to connect and share lived experiences as mental health professionals of color
Increase personal well-being
Build relationships that champion success and empowerment
Decrease professional burnout
Get support to enhance clinician well-being
HOW IT WORKS
Free Monthly Sessions
- Complete our brief survey. The information collected helps us to develop this free Consulting and Networking Group to best meet your needs.
- Join our interest list. Complete the interest form to stay informed of program details and updates.
- RSVP to monthly events with our Eventbrite link. Attend in-person events and share with your professional connections to participate.
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Other Benefits
Additionally, Fresh Start will offer in-person trainings trainings co-hosted with Southwest Behavioral Health. These trainings provide two CE credit hours to use towards maintaining licensure.
Community Cultural Competency trainings open to mental health providers that serve women of color. These collaborative trainings offer CEU credit in partnership with Southwest Behavioral Health and focus on the intersectionality of our specific client population.
Ashlea Taylor-Barber, MAS-LMFT
Group Facilitator
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, relationship expert, keynote speaker and CEO. She graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and an Advanced Masters in Marriage & Family Therapy.
With over twelve years of experience in the behavioral health field, Ashlea utilizes experiential and EMDR techniques, specializing in helping clients move through life transitions, trauma, spiritual and race-based issues, dysfunctional generational patterns, women's issues, and more.