Violeta LMSW-c, EMDR Therapy & Community Education

08/07/2025

Q***r Family Building Conference - Free to the public with CEU options for clinicians.

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A 2-day virtual conference featuring expert-led discussions, real-life parenting journeys & strategies to navigate LGBTQ+ family-building.

07/31/2025

If you are looking to work with a supportive lead clinician while having access to in-person office space and/ or being able to work with clients virtually, please reach out.

We are in the first phases of seeking 1 to 2 part-time 1099 contractors.

Resumes can be sent to donawa@violeta-emdr.com.

We will be accepting resumes up to September 15th, 2025.

07/29/2025

As human beings, it's really important for us to feel connected to each other.

In the video below, I talk a little about the role of gossip in its attempt to foster connection. I read an excerpt from Dr. Donna Hick's text "Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict."

Gossip can seem innocent and benign because it's common. But the reality, is that it many times creates strain & mixed messages in relationships. It has potential to sew doubt in others. And in the words of Dr. Hicks, it actually violates the dignity of the one we're talking about ... and perhaps even violates the dignity of ourselves.

Individual healing work is also relational healing work:

Dr. Hicks is one of the leading experts on conflict resolution. She "provides an innovative new way of looking at the role and power of dignity in our everyd...

07/28/2025

One of our favorite psychotherapists that we're reading with lots of skin in the game is, Tamala Floyd LCSW!

She's a writer and trainer on Internal Family Systems. Her work "Listening to Parts Speak" discusses the role of ancestral insight in the promotion of positive behavioral health outcomes.

We love her section on the 'Self' inside this work. Listen to Violeta read it now, and if interested, find the accompanying video that leads readers through a meditation.

https://youtu.be/YXvA3ztLiOM?feature=shared

Page 52 on the "Qualities of Self" through an IFS + Ancestor Lens from Tamala Floyd's (LCSW) book "Listening When Parts Speak: A Practical Guide to Healing w...

07/25/2025

As of today, Violeta has become EMDR International Association Certified!

What does this mean? It means that Violeta has:

- Completed an EMDRIA Approved EMDR Training Program (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee).
- Holds a current License to Practice Independently as a Mental Health Professional in the state of Michigan.
- Obtained a Notarized Statement of Practice.
- Holds EMDR Experience - At Least 50 EMDR Sessions with at Least 25 Clients.
- Completed 20 Hours of Consultation by an EMDRIA Approved Consultant™ in EMDR.
- Been Recommended by 2 EMDRIA Approved Consultants™ .
- Been Recommended by 2 Peers in the Field Regarding Professional Practice.
- Completed 12 Hours of EMDRIA Credits (The Touchstone Institute for Perinatal Mental Health).
-Agreed to EMDR International Association Policies Agreement.

Congratulations!

07/22/2025

https://youtu.be/tjrfgNFpVqI?feature=shared

*Artist*: Alecia Renece

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you deserve ease and a life of peace // an affirmations for Black women.you can get this song here: https://aleciarenece.bandcamp.com/track/easecontent inclu...

07/22/2025

"This interview features Violeta Donawa, also known as Vio, a therapist and founding member of the Detroit-based collective Healing by Choice!

Violeta discusses the collective’s work, initiated by Adela Nieves Martinez, which brings together women and gender-nonconforming individuals to practice healing strategies aimed at addressing trauma from systemic oppression, including racial trauma, transphobia, homophobia, and ableism. The group uses tools like Reiki, Chinese medicine, ear acupuncture, meditation, and sound healing, while purposefully reclaiming ancestral practices from members’ lineages.

Drawing on Detroit’s deep, intergenerational activist history, she reflects on the importance of collaboration, highlighting that healing work cannot rely on a single person or approach. For Healing by Choice!, scaling their efforts involved learning how to holistically reclaim the function of money as a collaborative resource that would ensure the sustainability of community care offerings to Detroiters. She stresses that Detroit faces significant crises— such as housing, employment, and economic instability—that impacts healing work. Violeta underscores the need for spiritual fortitude, both individually and collectively, as essential to reclaiming knowledge from within communities and creating spaces for healing.

Violeta reminds us that spiritual strength is key to sustaining long-term, transformative infrastructure that resists criminalization of our communities and instead centers our collective care and safety."

The Healing Justice Lineages Project archives the rich legacy of healing justice in order to meet the moment of escalating political crises. Through archiving past and present strategies for collective care and safety, Healing Justice Lineages works to fortify the political and spiritual needs of ou...

07/22/2025

"In this video, Violeta discusses the way her unplanned C-Section led her to establish the perinatal trauma therapy component of her EMDR Therapy Practice, where she offers therapeutic services to clients in-person and virtually."

https://youtu.be/cz-ocjsWINo?feature=shared

In this video, Violeta discusses the way her unplanned C-Section led her to establish the perinatal trauma therapy component of her EMDR Therapy Practice, wh...

07/22/2025

We will not be taking on any more new consultations until September.

In the meantime, Violeta is working on community education video content through the Notice That! Therapy Community Education channel on YouTube.

Content shared is for educational and conversational purposes only and should not be considered as therapy or therapy interventions.

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07/09/2025

https://pointofrelationpodcast.com/podcast/elise-loehnen-finding-connection-in-crisis-and-conflict/

This week, Thomas is joined by much loved returning guest, NYT bestselling author, and the host of the podcast, Pulling the Thread, Elise Loehnen, to hash out the concerning fragmentation that feels inescapable right now and explore what we can do to combat it.

07/09/2025

"Get an introduction to the Brain Story in this accessible and engaging video.

The AFWI developed the video with considerable input from our partners at the Harvard Center on the Developing Child and the FrameWorks Institute.

Using metaphors developed by FrameWorks and tested with audiences both in the US and in Alberta, “How Brains are Built” infuses core story concepts with energy, accessibility, and high fidelity to the science."

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07/02/2025

"In whose best interest do I not know this thing?" - Rhiannon Giddens

A part of community education and psychoeducation work, it's important at Notice That! Therapy PLLC that we share about the role of cultural significance on holistic wellness. Black culture can be regional within the U.S., or diasporic - dispersed throughout and beyond the Continent. And in that, is the opportunity for place-based exploration of our personal and communal healing.

Today, we share a podcast episode where the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NYU) interviews Dr. Hadiya Sewer. Dr. Sewer is from the U.S. Virgin Islands and is of Ethiopian and Caribbean heritage.

They are a Research Fellow in the African and African American Studies Program at Stanford University and a Visiting Scholar in the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University.

They are currently working on two monographs titled “(De)Colonial Desires: Blackness, Aporia, and the Afterlives of the Dead” and "Meditations on Disaster: Climate Injustice, Covid-19, and the Coloniality of Power."

Sewer is also the President and Co-Founder of St.JanCo: the St. John Heritage Collective."

Take a listen to work and learn with us: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/virgin-islands--48744965

In our second episode, we focus on the US Virgin Islands and the pressing political, environmental, and identity issues shaping the conversation around self-det