WORKSHOPS
Healing Your Almond workshops range from 1 hour to full-day sessions. Topics below are only examples of workshops we provide--we are happy to customize programming to meet your needs and integrate various intersecting issues.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Utilizing a trauma-informed lens to increase awareness about an individuals' response to people who look or act differently than us.
The Healing? Improve retention and reduce barriers to productivity by increasing safety and promoting genuine connections with colleagues.
Healing Your Almond takes a team-approach to accomplishing this. Assisting Ms. Francees are Rhonda Sekhmet Ra and Brittany Patterson, LCSW.
Rhonda Sekhmet Ra holds a Master’s degree in Social Work with a clinical focus from one of the top ten schools of Social Work (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) in addition to a B.A in Applied Psychology from North Carolina State University. For over seven years, Rhonda has been helping individuals overcome emotional and psychological battles. She provides unique individual and group healing services through her healing practice Lion Heart Life Healing. In addition to her individual healing work, Rhonda provides community healing events and virtual healing groups including the Black Women’s Healing Group which she has been leading since 2017.
Rhonda is known for her racial consciousness as she has studied systemic racism within and outside of the educational system. She uses this knowledge to help people of African descent understand and heal from the traumas of racism. Rhonda is an advocate for mental, physical, and spiritual freedom which she promotes with her healing work as well as her spoken word and activism within social justice organizations and movements.
Brittany moved to Wilmington, NC from Boston, MA eight years ago. She received her Masters of Social Work from Simmons University and has been working as a clinician in various settings for thirteen years. Brittany is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (Therapist) who specializes in treating trauma, familial issues, parenting skills work, mood disorders, and anxiety/depression.
Some of Brittany’s specialties include doing work with somatic/sensorimotor trauma processing, and loves incorporating mindfulness practices into therapy. Brittany is committed to making sure no one is invisible and sees mental health treatment as a way of strengthening the broken places until people feel WHOLE again.
She also has many talents including dance through her studies of Ballet and Modern dance in Purchase, NY. Sometimes she likes to include body work into the therapy practice as well. She loves working with adults, particularly parents, as well as adolescents and families to help heal relationships.
Productivity and Presenteeism
Just because you are physically at your desk doesn’t necessarily mean you’re present on the job.
The Healing? Integrate wellness at home and at work for more effective teams.
Testimonial
““As a member of a nonprofit organization that confronts racial and gender justice, my co-director and I worked with Franchon to build our relationship and maintain equity among our internal team. As a seasoned trauma therapist, she helped us work through our organization’s stressors and personal conflicts that were so heavily rooted in the very experiences our organization’s mission is based upon. Our work with Franchon taught me (and still teaches me) that conflict is not abuse and that healthy communication among my team is necessary before our organization can move forward with other partnerships. She’s the perfect consultant because she combines her skillset as a therapist, her education of business, and the most genuine, honest, and refreshing personality I’ve ever known. Franchon always says she feels honored that we trust her enough to work with us, but I feel so privileged to work with a consultant who perfectly considers the intersection of my personal experiences and our organization’s needs so that we can grow in the most productive, healthy way.””