ALTERHERED SHIFT 5-Week Intensive 

Transforming Black Women’s Mental Health from Surviving to Thriving

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🗓️ Training Dates:

March 16, 2026-April 19, 2026

• 📥 Mondays: Self-paced content (3 hours/week)

• 💻 Sundays: Live virtual sessions on Zoom (3 hours/week)
  Live Time: Sundays @ 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

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🔥 About the Training

AlterHERed Shift is a 5-week, hybrid training program designed for clinical social workers and mental health practitioners committed to disrupting harm and transforming care for Black women.

This training invites participants to go beyond performative inclusion or cultural competency and into a deep reckoning with history, bias, and liberatory clinical practice. This is a training that doesn't just inform, it transforms.

At the heart of this work is a concept you will come to know and embody:

🌿 Sankompass™

A spiritual and cognitive compass developed by returning to ancestral knowledge and using it to guide ethical, liberatory, clinical practice.

Through historical context, radical analysis, and heart-centered guidance, you will begin to align your clinical practice with your highest values of equity, justice, and healing.

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🎯 Why This Training Matters

Despite decades of awareness, the clinical mental health field continues to:

• Misdiagnose, under-serve, and retraumatize Black women

• Operate within Eurocentric frameworks that erase lived experience

• Uphold systems that pathologize resistance and cultural expression

This training is not a checkbox. It's a re-orientation, a return to right relationship with the communities we serve. It is the internal shift required to dismantle systemic harm from the inside out.

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📚 Learning Objectives

By the end of this training, participants will:

1. Analyze the historical roots of racial disparities in Black women’s mental health

2. Critique the social work profession's failures in addressing structural oppression

3. Reflect on their role in systemic harm and begin accountability practices

4. Integrate DEIPAR(Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Intersectionality, Anti-Racism, Power) and culturally rooted tools into clinical care

5. Design an action plan rooted in ancestral wisdom, justice, and ethical practice

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🧭 Weekly Modules & Flow

Each module includes:
✔️ Recorded lessons
✔️ Downloadable materials
✔️ Weekly journal prompts
✔️ Sunday Zoom group practice & reflection

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🎁 Early Bird Registration Bonuses (Before January 1, 2025)

When you register before October 1, 2025, you’ll receive exclusive AlterHERed Shift gifts to support your journey:

👕 FREE AlterHERed Shift T-Shirt
🧭 Sankompass™ Guided Reflection Notebook (exclusive, not sold separately)
🧘🏾‍♀️ Free Entry into the Pre-Training Virtual Grounding Circle

• ✍️ Bonus mini e-book: “Beginning the Sankompass Journey”

• Save $25 on your overall package. 

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💵 Standard Registration (October 1–November 10, 2025)

• Investment: $500

• Includes:

  • 🎓 Certificate of Completion

  • 👥 Access to Private Cohort Facebook Group

  • 🏝️ $300 Credit Toward 2026 Therapist Retreat

  • 🌱 Lifetime access to “Allies for Social Justice in Mental Health” community

Limited seats available. Registration closes Nov. 15 at 11:59 PM EST.

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📝 Important Required Forms

Please complete these THREE consent forms before beginning training on November 17, 2025:

1. 📄 Participation Agreement

2. 🔐 Confidentiality & Virtual Safety Agreement

3. 🧠 Intellectual Property & Research Consent

These forms are required to access course content and receive certification.

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⚠️ Please Read: Transparency & Expectations

• This is not a therapy group. It is professional education for licensed or pre-licensed clinicians.

• While deeply reflective and emotional, this training does not replace clinical supervision or therapeutic care.

• Full participation in both self-paced and live sessions is required for certification.

• There are no refunds. 

• All content is the original intellectual property of Relief with Rissa LLC and may not be copied or distributed.

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💡 Your Sankompass™ Awaits

This is your invitation to stop merely surviving the system—and start altering it. Join a collective of mental health professionals committed to reshaping care for Black women and reclaiming what it means to be a healer.

🌍 Return to the roots. Practice with clarity. Lead with Sankompass.

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Meet Your Facilitator: Dr. Mirissa Jackson, LCSW, TF-CBT, RBT, BSP, CCTP-II

Dr. Mirissa Jackson is a licensed clinical social worker, trauma therapist, and the founder of Relief with Rissa LLC, a healing-centered mental health practice dedicated to the liberation and well-being of Black women. With over a decade of experience in the mental health field and eight years specializing in trauma recovery, Dr. Jackson brings both clinical expertise and deep cultural fluency to every room she enters.

Certified in multiple trauma-focused modalities, including TF-CBT, Brainspotting (BSP), and as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level II (CCTP-II), she has supported countless women in navigating the effects of complex trauma, generational pain, and systemic harm.

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💡 Why AlterHERed Shift Was Born

AlterHERed Shift is not just a training, it’s a movement, rooted in years of evidence-based research, clinical experience, and lived truth. After working closely with Black women clients and seeing the systemic gaps, misdiagnoses, and harm repeatedly reinforced by well-meaning providers, Dr. Jackson recognized a sobering truth:

The mental health field is not equipped to truly serve Black women.

What began as a collection of reflections and notes from sessions and case studies, grew into a two-year research initiative that drew from historical, sociological, clinical, and spiritual frameworks. The result is a first-of-its-kind, immersive training designed to recondition clinicians, not just re-educate them.

AlterHERed Shift fuses DEIPAR principles, transformative and  adult learning theory, and a new concept coined by Dr. Jackson herself, 

🧭 Sankompass™: A spiritual and cognitive compass formed by returning to ancestral knowledge to guide ethical, liberatory, clinical practice.

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🎓 What Makes Her the Right Guide for This Work

Dr. Jackson’s qualifications aren’t just in her degrees and certifications, they’re in her lived experience as a Black woman, her hands-on work with trauma survivors, and her radical commitment to liberation and justice in every clinical space.

She is known for:

• Cultivating trauma-informed and culturally attuned spaces

• Coaching clinicians through unlearning harmful diagnostic and documentation norms

• Designing clinical tools tailored for equity, dignity, and transformation

Her work lives at the intersection of healing and revolution.

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🎉 Fun Facts About Dr. Jackson

When she’s not shifting systems and holding space for deep healing, Dr. Jackson is:

• ✈️ Traveling the world to understand how mental health affects different regions. 

• 📚 Loves to read self- development and romance books. 

• 🥂 Brunching with her girls and talking about purpose, joy, and healing

• 🤣 Laughing from the belly because healing doesn’t mean being heavy

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Dr. Jackson doesn’t just lead this training, she embodies it. And she invites you to do the same.

“Healing isn’t always pretty, easy, or fun, but it’s sacred. This training is a thank you to those doing the sacred work of becoming better, for themselves and for those they serve.” — Dr. Mirissa Jackson

 

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