WORK WITH DESIREÉ
Culture Changes Through Practice.
Desireé helps individuals, families, professionals, and organizations understand recurring patterns and build more intentional ways of living, relating, and working together.
Who I Work With / What I Offer
Individuals & FamiliesOne-to-one conversations, private advising, family support, and somatic practice for the patterns you want to change.
Liberation Sessions: 75 minutes · $75–$300 sliding scale. Private advising begins at $2,500; family support begins at $3,500.
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A Conversation That Belongs to You
Sometimes what you need is not a program, framework, or six-week container.
Sometimes you need 75 minutes with someone who can hold the whole story—the exhaustion, the pattern, the decision you keep circling, and the thing you cannot say anywhere else.
Liberation Sessions are one-to-one conversations with Desireé B. Stephens, CPS-P, available online or in person in Atlanta. You bring what you are carrying. Together, we name what is hurting, the story sustaining it, and what wants to change.
This may be a space for:
- Naming a pattern you keep repeating but cannot yet see the edges of
- Thinking through a decision, transition, or relationship
- Navigating diagnoses, school systems, waitlists, caregiving, love, and grief
- Processing what the world is asking of you right now
- Being heard without being fixed
These sessions are not therapy and are not a substitute for licensed mental-health or medical care. They are counsel, witness, reflection, and practice—one conversation at a time.
What’s Included
- A 75-minute one-to-one Liberation Session with Desireé B. Stephens, CPS-P
- A post-session follow-up email for this session
- A personalized Practice Your Praxis™ recap in that follow-up: the key pattern, permission, or practice named in the conversation, one concrete next practice, and relevant somatic, reflection, or resource recommendations when appropriate
Choose What You Pay
This is a true sliding scale. Choose the amount that fits your current capacity. No proof required. No story owed. Every amount opens the same session.
These are suggested anchors, not the only choices. You may enter any amount from $75 to $300 on the booking page.
- $300 — Sustainer: You have financial ease, and paying at this level helps widen access for someone else.
- $225 — Base: The standard cost of this 75-minute session.
- $175 — Community: Cost is a meaningful consideration, and this rate supports participation without unnecessary strain.
- $125 — Supported: Resources are limited right now, and this rate offers additional access support.
- $75 — Access: The lowest supported rate, available when this is what fits your current capacity.
The amount can be different next time. The booking page accepts any whole-dollar amount from $75 to $300.
75 minutes · Online or in person in Atlanta · Choose your time and book directly
Liberation Advising Container
Reclaim the Parts of Yourself You Had to Abandon to Survive
This private advising container is for the person ready to understand a recurring pattern, interrupt the inherited story beneath it, and build a different way of living.
The work may include burnout disguised as ambition, chronic guilt around rest, disconnection from the body, difficulty trusting yourself, repeated relational patterns, or a life organized around expectations you did not consciously choose.
What’s Included and Intended Outcomes
What’s Included
- One 90-minute Liberation Diagnostic session
- Four 60-minute advising sessions
- One 60-minute integration session
- Personalized Liberation Practice Plan
- Somatic reflection prompts
- Email reflection support between sessions
- Recommended Library and Academy resources
- Optional pathway into The Liberation Journey
Intended Outcomes
- Greater clarity around recurring patterns
- Increased trust in yourself
- Sustainable practices for growth
- Stronger alignment between your values and daily life
- A framework you can continue using after the container ends
Investment begins at $2,500
Somatic Reset Session
For the Person Whose Nervous System Has Been Carrying Too Much for Too Long
A one-to-one nervous-system regulation session supporting overwhelm, burnout, grief, chronic stress, caregiver fatigue, and neurodivergent exhaustion.
Depending on your needs and consent, the session may include orienting, breathwork, resourcing, guided body awareness, grounding, nervous-system education, somatic touch or bodywork, rest, and integration.
60 minutes — $97
90 minutes — $147
Rest as Resistance
Rest Is Not Something You Earn
In a culture that rewards exhaustion and treats productivity as proof of worth, rest becomes an act of reclamation.
This is dedicated space to stop performing, producing, fixing, and carrying. There is no agenda, healing performance, or expectation that you leave transformed. Just permission to be.
60 minutes — $75
90 minutes — $125
The Liberation Method: Embodied
A Six-Session Journey Into the Wisdom of the Body
Many of us understand our patterns intellectually. Fewer have had the supported space to experience how survival, identity, belonging, boundaries, grief, and liberation live in the body.
The six sessions move through Safety, Boundaries, Anger, Grief, Belonging, and Integration.
You receive six private sessions, personalized reflection prompts, somatic practices between sessions, integration resources, and a closing embodiment plan.
Six sessions — $777
Six payments — $137/month
Family Liberation Container
Name What Was Inherited. Choose What Gets Passed On.
This facilitated family engagement supports households ready to understand their recurring patterns and practice a more consent-centered, accountable, and connected way of being together.
What’s Included
- Family Liberation Diagnostic
- Six facilitated family sessions
- Household Practice Guide
- Communication and conflict tools
- Family values mapping
- Resource recommendations
- Closing integration session
Intended Outcomes
- Improved communication
- Greater understanding across differences
- Healthier and more flexible boundaries
- Shared language and expectations
- Stronger repair practices
- Sustainable family rhythms
Investment begins at $3,500
Existing self-directed and community options: The Shop · The Liberation Journey™ · Parenting and community gatherings.
Professionals & PractitionersProfessional learning and speaking for educators, practitioners, facilitators, and helping professionals.
Continuing Education
Professional Continuing Education
The person learns. The practice travels.
For Licensed and Credentialed Practitioners
Practitioners regularly ask whether this coursework can count toward their continuing education. Continuing-education approval is granted profession by profession and jurisdiction by jurisdiction, so we are building the demand record first rather than claiming approval we do not hold.
Tell us your profession and jurisdiction, or — if your organization holds continuing-education authority — start a partnership conversation. Whether documented professional learning satisfies your requirements is determined by your board or licensing body.
Professional Learning & Team Development
Professional Learning and Academy Team Access
Build shared capacity.
Learning That Continues After the Workshop Ends
The Liberation Education Academy supports ongoing antiracist, decolonized, somatic, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-affirming professional learning through self-paced education, live learning, reflection, discussion, and implementation practice.
Team access is appropriate for organizations that need a sustained learning environment rather than a single event. It can support an organizational partnership or stand as a professional-learning pathway of its own.
- Up to 5 learners: $1,750/year
- Up to 15 learners: $5,000/year
- Up to 30 learners: $9,000/year
- 31 or more learners: custom scope
Continuing-education eligibility is course-, profession-, jurisdiction-, and approving-body-specific. No engagement or membership should be represented as carrying CE credit unless the applicable approval is active and explicitly named.
Organizations & CommunitiesCustomized consulting, school support, speaking, and facilitated community work shaped around your people and context.
Organizations & Teams
Organizational Consulting & Liberation Diagnostic™
Organizational Transformation Partnership
Find where the pattern is living.
Move From Stated Values to Lived Culture
Customized partnerships help schools, nonprofits, healthcare systems, businesses, foundations, and community organizations identify the patterns shaping their culture and build practices that align behavior, leadership, policy, access, and accountability with the values they have already named.
Ways We Partner, Investment and Engagement
Ways We Partner
- Organizational diagnostics and culture audits
- Trauma-informed antiracism and decolonization education
- Leadership development and facilitated cohorts
- Neurodiversity-affirming workplace and learning practices
- Strategic conversations and conflict facilitation
- Culture strategy and implementation planning
- Policy and practice alignment
- Staff learning and Academy access
- Speaking, workshops, and team learning
Investment and Engagement
- Keynotes and Learning Experiences: beginning at $3,500
- Half-Day Workshops: $2,500–$4,500
- Full-Day Workshops: $5,000–$8,500
- Leadership Development and Cohorts: $8,000–$25,000
- Organizational Diagnostic Assessments: $7,500–$20,000
- Strategic Consulting and Retainers: $2,500–$10,000 per month
- Organizational Transformation Partnerships: beginning at $7,500
Every engagement is customized to the organization’s goals, people, timeline, access needs, and desired outcomes. Scope, responsibilities, cost, and the limits of a single engagement are named before work begins.
Schools & Educational Systems
School and Educational-System Consulting
Customized consulting for schools and educational systems—delivered directly by Desireé—supporting neurodiversity-affirming, decolonized, and trauma-informed learning environments through diagnostics, leadership support, staff learning, and implementation practice.
This is distinct from Academy Team Access, which provides professional-learning seats, and from broad Organizational Transformation, which addresses institution-wide culture, leadership, policy, and practice.
Looking for a self-guided resource instead? Visit The Shop.
Churches, Communities & Gatherings
Community Building Intensive
Community Is Not a Program. It Is a Practice.
Communities carry what individuals cannot carry alone: grief, memory, joy, resistance, care, and celebration.
They are also where the wounds of systems land most heavily. Many groups are exhausted from carrying one another without the structures, agreements, and shared expectations that make care sustainable.
What’s Included and Intended Outcomes
What’s Included
- Community Liberation Diagnostic
- Leadership assessment
- Community culture mapping
- Facilitated conversations
- Community agreements framework
- Conflict navigation support
- Practice recommendations
- Final implementation roadmap
Intended Outcomes
- Shared purpose
- Stronger community culture
- Reduced burnout
- Clearer expectations
- Increased accountability
- Sustainable structures for collective care
Investment begins at $5,000
Book Desireé to Speak
Keynotes, panels and moderated conversations, workshops, retreat facilitation, conference learning tracks, guest teaching, and community conversations.
Investment begins at $3,500
Explore Speaking and EventsSpeaker Assets & Booking Information

Founder of The Liberation Method™, somatic practitioner and liberation educator with a track record in building community infrastructure for embodied healing.
View existing headshotExisting topics include antiracism, decolonization, somatic practice, neurodiversity-affirming learning, and leadership and culture.
Tell me about your gathering, audience, format, and what you want people to carry with them.
Request speaker bio, headshot, and event materialsHow the Work Begins
THE LIBERATION DIAGNOSTIC™
One assessment framework. Five movements.
The Liberation Diagnostic is the signature assessment and entry framework within The Liberation Method.
It is not a clinical diagnosis, a personality test, or a label placed on a person. It is a way of seeing the pattern clearly enough to determine where transformation must begin and what must change for it to last.
Wound → Lie → Permission → Practice → Embodiment
These five diagnostic movements remain consistent. The questions adapt to the scale of the work.
Every engagement begins with this assessment; Education • Somatics • Community shape the practice, with scope adapting to the person, team, or organization.
What Working Together Can Look Like
See an example of an engagement
Illustrative, anonymized school engagement scenario — not a completed case study or verified outcome
A school community is navigating concerns about belonging, communication, and growing tension between educators, families, and leadership. The deeper questions involve how decisions are made, whose experiences are believed, and what happens when harm or disagreement occurs.
The work may include listening to stakeholders, reviewing policies, identifying recurring cultural patterns, and helping leadership and staff develop shared language and practices they can return to when the consultant is no longer in the room.
Possible activities & deliverables
Examples, determined by the agreed scope
- Listening and discovery through stakeholder conversations, questionnaires, and existing practices
- Cultural pattern assessment: power, belonging, communication, conflict, and accountability
- Facilitated learning and somatic practice
- Leadership reflection and consultation
- Written findings summary and prioritized recommendations
- Leadership reflection guide and implementation roadmap
The scope is developed together. Not every engagement requires every component.
Fit, boundaries & expectations
Who This Work Is For
This work is for:
- Individuals ready to stop treating themselves as a project to fix
- Families committed to consent, communication, accountability, and repair
- Leaders who know their culture does not match their stated values
- Organizations ready to move beyond performative antiracism and diversity commitments
- Educators designing neurodiversity-affirming and decolonized learning environments
- Communities experiencing conflict, exhaustion, fragmentation, or change
- Conferences and gatherings seeking more than inspiration without implementation
- People willing to examine how race, power, supremacy culture, ableism, access, and inherited beliefs shape everyday practice
Readiness does not mean having perfect language or already knowing what to do.
It means being willing to tell the truth, remain accountable to impact, and practice something different.
The Work We Do Not Do
- Performative antiracism or diversity work that avoids power and accountability
- One-time inspiration presented as culture transformation
- Assessment without a path toward implementation
- Neurodiversity work centered on compliance, normalization, or making disabled people easier to manage
- Somatic practice used to regulate people into tolerating harmful systems
- Consulting that blames individuals for what structures repeatedly produce
- “Belonging” work that requires people to abandon themselves to participate
- Guaranteed transformation without shared responsibility, time, and practice
Clear Expectations
Scope, timeline, responsibilities, access needs, and cost are named openly before an engagement begins.
Culture change takes time. No single keynote, workshop, session, or assessment transforms an entire system. Some services are intentionally complete as standalone experiences; deeper transformation requires sustained implementation.
Transparency is part of the methodology. It supports consent, trust, accountability, and informed decision-making on both sides.
When, Where & Next Steps
Liberation Sessions are available online or in person in Atlanta. For other engagements, timing, format, scope, access needs, and investment are discussed together at inquiry.
Tell me what is happening, who is involved, what you have already tried, and what you want to be different.
