Why Liberation Requires Healing Justice with Erica Woodland

Erica Woodland is a black queer/genderqueer facilitator, consultant and healing justice practitioner born and raised in Baltimore, MD. He is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 18 years experience working at the intersections of movements for racial, gender, economic, trans and queer justice and liberation. He has extensive experience working with youth, people of color, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities across the country. Erica is the Founding Director of the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color. Under his leadership, NQTTCN has trained and mobilized hundreds of mental health practitioners committed to intervening on the legacy of harm and violence of the medical industrial complex while building liberatory models of care rooted in abolition.

Erica’s consulting work is founded in transformative practice to strengthen movement organizations’ ability to integrate healing justice into their political organizing work. He has worked with a number of local and national organizations to develop structures and practices that promote sustainability, healing, alignment, and impact. Erica also has a private practice where he provides psychotherapy and clinical supervision with a focus on harm reduction, intergenerational trauma and resilience, grief, and family therapy.

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Music: It Doesn't Have To Be This Way (Remix) by Andre Henry.