Delta Larkey MA, LMFT, IFS Certified Therapist and Clinical Consultant
I co-founded The Family Development Center in Fall 2013, an outpatient mental health clinic focused on deconstructing white supremacy in mental health care. I have been providing therapy services for over seventeen years in various settings. I am a systems-trained therapist that values the importance of working with individuals, couples, and families within the context of their relationships. I specialize in working with individuals and families surrounding traumatic birth, pregnancy loss (miscarriage, medical termination, elective termination), traumatic grief, and infant death. I am a Certified Provider in Compassionate Bereavement Care.
I am a Doctoral student in Culture and Teaching at the University of MN, and over the past several years, I have been working with, learning from, and being mentored by Dr. Robin DiAngelo. I am also a student of Resmaa Menakem’s Somatic Abolitionism model and use the work of Dr. Kenneth Hardy in the cross-cultural supervision I provide and white affinity group work. I participate in and facilitate several white affinity groups and workshops for white therapists on the implicit and explicit forms of white supremacy that occur in therapy training spaces.
I am a white, cisgender, heterosexual woman. I was educated at Western colonial institutions. This means that the majority of books, perspectives, and information I received was through a white, male, cis-het lens. I grew up in an upper middle class family and have remained in the middle class. I am able bodied. I am committed to not just identifying and naming these identities but moving towards unpacking, dismantling, and understanding all of the ways my dominant identities oppress, harm and burden others.
Jessica Finney, MA, LMFT, IFS Certified Therapist, Clinical Consultant, and Trainer
I'm a rural Southern transplant living in the heart of urban Minneapolis, MN. I enjoy working creatively and collaboratively with individuals, couples, families, and communities, and have been doing so in a variety of clinical settings since 2014 (in-home, day treatment, schools, and outpatient) and the 13 years before that as a theater director and teaching artist. I have worked and lived alongside many intersections of marginalized communities throughout my life. As someone engaging in cross-cultural work, I continue to unpack the contexts of my identity, my unearned advantages, and how I uphold white supremacy culture.
I am a white-bodied, able-bodied, cisgender, mostly heterosexual woman who navigates the world in a fat body. I am a student of Resmaa Menakem’s Somatic Abolitionism, and longtime practitioner of Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed, rooted in Paulo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The work of Dr Kenneth Hardy and Dr Robin DiAngelo greatly influences the work that I do in white affinity spaces (both groups and trainings) with therapists to get curious about how we consciously and unconsciously uphold the the structures of white supremacy in work, social relationships, and day to day life. I am dedicated to collective healing, believing that we must be in relationship with each other and with that which we wish to change.
Feedback from initial workshop
