Workshop Participant Testimonials

Cannon Wellness Collective | Professional Trainings & Healing Experiences

Our workshops are designed to be honest, trauma-informed, and culturally grounded.

Here's what participants are saying.

We Need Help Too! Counseling Black Women

"This training finally said out loud what many of us practice in silence. I left feeling more equipped and more seen as a provider working with Black women."

- Workshop Participant, 2021

"The tools for navigating perfectionism, boundary fatigue, and the invisible load were immediately useful. My clients felt the shift the next week."

- Clinical Social Worker, 2022

"Nedra creates a space where Black women are not reduced to resilience. We are allowed to be human."

- Counselor, 2023

"I cried in this workshop-professionally and personally. I didn't realize how much weight I was still carrying."

- Mental Health Clinician, 2024

"This was not another 'self-care' lecture. It was clinically grounded, culturally aware, and deeply restorative."

- LMSW Attendee, 2025

The Impact of Racial Trauma on Providers

"This was the first workshop where someone acknowledged the racial battle fatigue that clinicians of color experience. It validated years of silent burnout."

- Provider, 2021

"I walked away with strategies I could use immediately for myself and my clients."

- MSW Participant, 2022

"Nedra blends research with lived experience in a way that is honest and healing."

- Clinical Psychotherapist, 2023

"I have attended countless DEI trainings-this one finally connected the dots between trauma, identity, and mental health for providers."

- Therapist, 2024

"I left with language, tools, and permission to care for myself without guilt."

- Workshop Participant, 2025

Unmasking Implicit Bias: Mental Health and Healing in Communities of Color

"This training should be mandatory for every agency. It was real, uncomfortable, and transformative in the best way."

- Program Director, 2021

"Nedra created a brave space where we could examine bias without shame-just awareness and growth."

- Community Provider, 2022

"I walked in expecting a lecture. I walked out with a deeper understanding of myself and my clients."

- Licensed Professional Counselor, 2023

"The exercises helped our team finally talk honestly about what gets in the way of equitable care."

- Mental Health Supervisor, 2024

"This workshop helped us see how healing practices rooted in culture can shift outcomes for entire communities."

- Agency Clinician, 2025

Breaking the Bonds: Trauma Bonding & Narcissistic Abuse - Clinical Strategies for Effective Intervention

"This was one of the most impactful trainings I've attended in 10 years. I finally have language for what my clients have been experiencing."

- LCSW, 2021

"The clinical tools were practical and immediately usable-especially the grounding strategies and treatment planning guidance."

- Therapist, 2022

"Nedra teaches this topic with compassion and clarity. It helped me understand trauma bonds beyond theory."

- Licensed Clinician, 2023

"The case examples brought everything together. I use them daily in my sessions now."

- Private Practice Provider, 2024

"Every clinician working with relationship trauma needs this workshop. Period."

- Workshop Attendee, 2025