Inspiring Change and Transformation Together
Who am I?
I’m a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and abolitionist. My work is rooted in anti-oppression and racial justice, with a focus on transforming systems of care for marginalized communities. I draw on my experience in correctional and clinical settings, bringing an abolitionist lens to equity–challenging harmful structures and advocating for community led approaches to care. I’ve spent the past few years working with health and mental health organizations to embed anti-racism and anti-oppression into their equity strategies and implementation plans. I’ve also supported executive leaders to embrace and demonstrate anti-racist leadership, making their commitments more than words on a page.
You can find my CV here
Explore what I offer
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I support organizations with comprehensive reviews of the EDI and anti-racism approaches, assessing current policies, practices, and organizational culture. Anti-racism audits will include a detailed audit report with actionable recommendations.
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I support organizations with group or individual reflective practice, taking an anti-oppressive and trauma informed approach. I also provide coaching for individuals looking to embed anti-racist practice into their leadership.
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I support organizations to turn their equity and anti-racism commitments into tangible action through strategy and implementation plan development.
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For organizations wanting to deepen their commitment to equity and anti-racism, I offer longer term learning partnerships. The purpose of a learning partnership is to provide organizations with sustained, high-quality external support to deepen their anti-racism practice and strengthen leadership thinking.
The learning partnership combines several functions that requires deep expertise, professional judgement, emotional intelligence, multi-disciplicary experience, and sits at the intersection of anti-racism leadership, organisational development, executive reflection/coaching, and clinical psychology. In addition to anti-racism expertise, I bring a professional background as a clinical psychologist, ensuring organizations receive guidance grounded in:
Psychological safety
Trauma-informed approaches
Ethics
Understanding of staff wellbeing and organisational dynamics
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I am available for speaking engagements including staff network sessions, keynote sessions, workshops, and more. Past engagements include:
Race on the Agenda’s Community Research Partnership Conference keynote titled ‘The System’s Broken, What Next?’
OUTpatients LGBTIQ+ Conference session titled ‘Beyond Reform: Abolitionist Approaches to Health Equity’
Cook County Juvenile Court didactic training session titled ‘Exploring Racism, Anti-Blackness, and Misogynoir in Forensic Practice’
Staff sessions for companies like Noom, Adaptive, Crisis, and Publicis
Don’t see what you’re looking for? I often create bespoke offers based on client needs.
“Ariel led a whole organisation audit around our approach to EDI and anti-racism which brought out tangible and meaningful recommendations for us to work toward. Ariel has continued to work with us following this and her approach has been honest, steadying and incredibly valuable, managing to strike a balance between holding us to account and empowering us to make the changes. Ariel is able to do this with clarity and care that never feels discouraging and instead opens up possibilities.”
— Director of Adult and Older Adult Services, Bradford District and Craven Mind“Ariel is brilliant strategist and leader who brings a depth of knowledge, incredible focus and the ability to remain level headed in challenging situations. She is not afraid to speak truth to power, and garners the respect of those who work with her. Her abolitionist approach to anti-racism allows organisations that she works with the opportunity to transform! She is a joy to work alongside, as her anti-racist values are woven in to everything that she does, including how she builds relationships of solidarity across the mental health sector.”
— CEO, JMB Consulting“I have had the privilege of working with Ariel to explore what Anti-racism means to my organisation and how we can move from being an EDI compliant organisation to one that is proactively developing its culture and supporting processes to be ani-racist. Through working with Ariel my social justice values and confidence to act have been awakened and I now see and understand that it’s my responsibility to be be part of the changes needed rather than a supportive but silent observer. Ariel’s ability to create a psychologically safe space to present and explore the audit enabled us to progress our thinking positively and pragmatically resulting in clear commitments and actions.”
— CEO, Bradford District and Craven Mind“From modelling and influencing with integrity, tenacity and sharing her genuine expertise to drive forward Macmillan’s ambition for inequity. Ariel has moved us forward in leaps and bounds; bringing together and developing a matrix team, co-designing a sector leading community grant programme and shaping an approach to cultural responsiveness for our work across the system. She has consistently inspired others and brought to life both the deep need for change, the systemic issues at play and yet builds confidence that practical steps can make a meaningful shift possible. Personally it’s been a joy working with Ariel, fiercely clever, driven, compassionate and deeply person centred. ”
— Director of Community and System Partnerships, Macmillan Cancer Support
