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SPEAKING & TRAINING

Bring the
conversation into the room.

Dr. Lastenia Francis offers keynotes, workshops, clinical trainings, panels, and facilitated conversations for clinical teams, graduate programs, universities, sororities, community organizations, and workplaces seeking deeper conversations about relationships, identity, culture, and connection.

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SIGNATURE CONVERSATIONS

Thoughtful conversations for the rooms where people learn, lead, heal, and grow.

Clinical Practice & the Person of the Therapist

For clinicians, supervisors, training institutes, graduate programs, and behavioral health teams.

Topics include supervision that develops the clinician, self-of-the-therapist work, clinical judgment, and navigating culture, power,

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Strength, Identity & Belonging

For sororities, women's conferences, employee resource groups, universities, and community spaces

Conversations centered on the cost of always being the strong one, code-switching, emotional presence, and what it means to make room for softness, voice, and belonging.

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Relationships, Families & the Roles We Carry

For conferences, schools, family-serving organizations, and community groups

Explore how family roles, relational patterns, conflict, repair, and intergenerational experiences shape the way people connect at home, in community, and at work.

Need something built for your room?

Custom trainings are available for organizations seeking a conversation tailored to their audience, goals, and setting. This can include relational intelligence at work, sustainable leadership, belonging, and communication through a systemic lens.

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Ways to Work Together

Keynotes & Conference
Sessions

For larger audiences and featured events.

Workshops & Clinical
Trainings

For deeper learning, discussion, and application.

Panels & Conversations

For dialogue-centered events, podcasts, and community spaces.

Custom Organizational
Training

Built around a specific audience or goal.

Tell me about the room.

Share your audience, topic, goals, format, and date, and we'll begin building the right conversation for your event.

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Service Area
Providing teletherapy from the comfort of your home — available to anyone physically located in New York, North Carolina, Vermont, Maryland, Massachusetts, or Virginia at the time of the session.​

How to reach us
As a small practice, we prioritize care for our current clients. Please reach out in this order:

  1. Current client? Use the schedule button above to book your next session.

  2. New Client? Use the "Find your therapist" button above to get paired with a therapist.

Contact
Text or call: 347-970-2670 or

919-551-3217
We prefer text for the fastest reply. Calls are answered between sessions.

Email: Meaningfulemotion@gmail.com
Fax: 919-289-3217

Hours:
Mon–Wed: 8am–4pm

Thu–Fri: 8am–8pm

Sat: 8am–12pm

Sun: Closed
Hours vary per clinician. Appointments made upon request.

© 2026 by Meaningful Emotion Therapy LLC

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