Services
Want to Work With Dr. Everett?
I offer professional development sessions, speaking engagements, consulting, and 1:1 or group education and coaching for educators, students, leaders, and Black women navigating grief. Discover ways to gain language, tools, and support to live with clarity and grace.
Professional Development
Learning, at its best, should feel both expansive and affirming. Dr. Everett’s professional development offerings are designed to support educators, students, researchers, and leaders in building skills and confidence.Includes:
- Professional development with children
- Professional development with teachers (pre-service and in-service)
- Professional development with researchers (undergraduate, graduate, or professional)
- Professional development with administrators and Human Resources professionals (K-12 schools, universities, and non-profit or for-profit organizations)
With a focus on grief or grant writing, these sessions demystify processes that are often left unspoken.
EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES
Grief Education
Grief can be painful. But why? Science can explain some of the physical and mental sensations we feel in grief.Dr. Everett witnesses your grief and creates space to gently name and explain what happens in our brains and bodies when we are grieving-- using neuroscience, compassion, and cultural competence. Together, you’ll explore your unique relationship with grief, making sense of the ways it shows up in your body. When you understand how grief works in your body, then you can transform your relationship with your grief.
Includes:
- Hey, Sis! Grief Education 101 (exclusively for Black women)
- Grief Education 101 (open to all populations)
- Curated Workshops
SCHEDULE A FIT CHECK
Grief Coaching
Grief doesn’t always come with language. And when you don’t have the words for what you’re experiencing mentally, physically, emotionally, it can feel even more isolating.Dr. Everett creates space to gently name what has felt hard to explain. Together, you’ll explore your unique relationship with grief, making sense of the ways it shows up in your body, your thoughts, and your daily life. This work is not about rushing toward healing, but about learning how to live with grief in a way that feels intentional, supported, and honest.
Includes:
- 1:1 Coaching
- Hey, Sis! Group Coaching (exclusively for Black women)
- Drop-In Group Coaching (open to all populations)
- Curated Workshops
SCHEDULE A FIT CHECK
Speaking Engagements
There is power in being in a room where the truth can be spoken and held. Dr. Everett’s speaking engagements invite audiences into conversations that are both intellectually rich and deeply human.Speaking topics include:
- Intersectional Grief Literacies
- Black women in academia
- Literacy, writing, and healing
- Navigating loss in professional and academic spaces
Each talk can be thoughtfully curated to meet the needs of your audience, or you can explore these topics as a starting point for conversation.
Dr. Everett is available for keynotes, panel discussions, podcasts, and more.
BOOK SAKEENA
Consulting
Intersectional, critical, and culturally sustaining frameworks guide my approaches to grief literacies, identity, learning, and healing.Through 1:1 and organizational consulting projects, clients are guided through tangible practices rooted in research, racial healing, and compassionate care to solve problems that meet the unique needs of long or short-term individual or organizational projects.
BOOK SAKEENA
Professional Development
Learning, at its best, should feel both expansive and affirming. Dr. Everett’s professional development offerings are designed to support educators and students in building both skill and confidence.Includes:
- Professional development with children
- Professional development with teachers (pre-service and in-service)
- Professional development with administrators (K-12 schools, universities, and non-profit or for-profit organizations)
With a focus on academic writing and grant writing, these sessions demystify processes that are often left unspoken. Participants are guided through understanding writing as a genre, strengthening their approach to research, and developing the clarity needed to pursue competitive academic opportunities.
EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES
Grief Education
Grief doesn’t always come with language. And when you don’t have the words for what you’re experiencing, mentally, physically, emotionally, it can feel even more isolating.Dr. Everett creates space to gently name what has felt hard to explain. Together, you’ll explore your unique relationship with grief, making sense of the ways it shows up in your body, your thoughts, and your daily life. This work is not about rushing toward healing, but about learning how to live with grief in a way that feels intentional, supported, and honest.
Includes:
- 1:1 Coaching
- Hey, Sis! Group Coaching (exclusively for Black women)
- Drop-In Group Coaching (open to all populations)
- Curated Workshops
SCHEDULE A FIT CHECK
Grief Coaching
Grief doesn’t always come with language. And when you don’t have the words for what you’re experiencing, mentally, physically, emotionally, it can feel even more isolating.Dr. Everett creates space to gently name what has felt hard to explain. Together, you’ll explore your unique relationship with grief, making sense of the ways it shows up in your body, your thoughts, and your daily life. This work is not about rushing toward healing, but about learning how to live with grief in a way that feels intentional, supported, and honest.
Includes:
- 1:1 Coaching
- Hey, Sis! Group Coaching (exclusively for Black women)
- Drop-In Group Coaching (open to all populations)
- Curated Workshops
SCHEDULE A FIT CHECK
Consulting
Intersectional, critical, and culturally sustaining frameworks guide my approaches to grief literacies, identity, learning, and healing.Through 1:1 and organizational consulting projects, clients are guided through tangible practices rooted in research, racial healing, and compassionate care to solve problems that meet the unique needs of long or short-term individual or organizational projects.
BOOK SAKEENA
Speaking Engagements
There is power in being in a room where the truth can be spoken and held. Dr. Everett’s speaking engagements invite audiences into conversations that are both intellectually rich and deeply human.Speaking topics include:
- Intersectional Grief Literacies
- Black women in academia
- Literacy, writing, and healing
- Navigating loss in professional and academic spaces
Each talk can be thoughtfully curated to meet the needs of your audience, or you can explore these topics as a starting point for conversation.
Dr. Everett is available for keynotes, panel discussions, podcasts, and more.
BOOK SAKEENA
Testimonials
See the Impact for Yourself
Our writing spaces and check-ins provided affirmation and encouragement in the midst of experiencing both the joys and challenges as a Black Woman literacy scholar. This has been a beautiful space to engage in personally and professionally. Dr. Everett’s vision to build community in this way is necessary and revolutionary.
Theda Gibbs Grey
Being able to be at peace with what I have, what I have to offer, and also being in a community where I can learn from and be affirmed by from others, has been healing and life-giving. This space is so loving and judgement-free that truly feel I can be my authentic self… It has been emotional and fun and challenging and full of grace.
Mellissa Gyimah
It felt as if we all were able to both mentor and be mentored, which is a rare community in the academy. The true beauty of this grant was the thoughtfulness of Dr. Everett made sure that our work and community building was not a one-time event, but very much ongoing in ways that were both meaningful and sustainable.
Justin Avery Coles