Dr. Darlene Hall
Darlene – a Black lesbian Psychologist with strong social justice values – has 30 years’ experience in the nonprofit sector as a direct service provider, senior administrator, internship coordinator, funder, and consultant working with communities that are disenfranchised, including People of Color, low-income, women and girls, children/youth, LGBTQ, people who are homeless (and combinations therein). Currently, she has a private psychotherapy practice and consulting business, Intersections Consulting, providing consulting, training, facilitation, technical assistance, and coaching in Mental Health, Organizational Development/Capacity Building, Program Evaluation, Program Development, Leadership Development, Youth Development, Fundraising and Philanthropy, Power and Privilege, and Sports/ Athletics and Health. In her consulting work with community- and school-based staff and programs, Darlene developed a model that integrates trauma and social justice frameworks with Youth Development theory and practice. Some of this work includes providing workshops and trainings on her expanded trauma framework at conferences, for a single organization, or for cohorts comprised of multiple organizations; facilitating process groups for staff to reduce Secondary Trauma; helping staff create self- and organizational-care practices to reduce Secondary Trauma; and aiding staff as they incorporate her model into program design and activities.
