Stefanie wears many hats as a Jamaican-born Dancer,
Independent Artist, Disabilities Advocate, Dance Movement
Therapist/Consultant, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Clinician and Creative Arts Therapist. We take a deep dive into the
parent/child relationship, how we can break generational parenting
cycles and develop healthy relationships with our children that
will help them to be all they can be and thrive in this
world.
Here's some more information about Stefanie.
Founder of The Diahann Project and A Bucket For the
Well, Stefanie specializes in multicultural mental health advocacy
for children, families, community educators, and community partners
within the Caribbean Diaspora, with a focus on the parent-infant
mental health and intergenerational immigrant trauma/lived
experiences. An immigrant herself, Stefanie’s work is charged by
seeking to create intersectional dialogue around diverse, inclusive
and equitable trauma-informed mental health approaches, namely
dance movement psychotherapy, within underserved/marginalized
communities that marry culturally empathetic mental health
practices, creative arts therapy interventions, and
intergenerational studies within immigrant communities.
Stefanie is also the founder of A Bucket For The
Well, which is is a multiplatform trauma-informed and culturally
affirming community-arts centered mental health collaborative and
wellness blog and resources network that facilitates and celebrates
the intersectionality of the arts, cross-cultural nuances, minority
mental health advocacy, minority health and wellness, minority
self-care practices, creative arts therapy approaches, early
childhood mental health advocacy, intergenerational trauma and
research within underserved/minority communities, and disability
advocacy within communities throughout the Caribbean
Diaspora.
Stefanie has also embraced her creative roots and
mental health background through also founding The Diahann Project
(TDP). TDP is a trauma-informed + culturally affirming visual
storytelling collaborative that centers the intersectional stories
of people of color, primarily black + brown people/creatives
through self-reflective portrait photography. TDP was birthed out
of my own intersectional duality as a differently abled (blind +
visually impaired), immigrant (Jamaican-American), mental health
clinician (licensed), dance movement therapist (registered) + black
+ mixed race creative amongst other identifiers. “Diahann” being my
middle name, is somewhat of my own creative health center point
from which I am often reminded that we can continue to evolve
creatively in our varying passions + that we never have to
subscribe to being defined as simply one thing or one part of
ourselves. As a self-taught photographer, who literally has always
loved photography but only began to invest in + share my passion a
few years ago, I am drawn to the layers within a person’s
story/lived experience + how facets of their experience +
vulnerability can be thoughtfully + collaboratively conveyed
through photography.
The Diahann Project
Founder/Photographer
IG: @thediahannproject
A Bucket for the Well
Founder/Mental Wellness Consultant + Blogger
IG: @abucketforthewell