Artist and Founder of Liberation-Based Therapy
Tanisha Christie is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and organizational leader whose work sits at the intersection of storytelling, healing, and liberation. Drawing on more than two decades of experience in the arts, education, and social impact sectors, she brings a uniquely interdisciplinary approach to cultivating emotional intelligence, leadership capacity, and systems-level transformation. Her background in ontological coaching and reflective leadership practices informs her ability to support individuals, teams, and institutions through moments of uncertainty, growth, and reinvention.
As a facilitator, coach, and curriculum developer, Tanisha has designed learning experiences for educators, arts organizations, community institutions, and nonprofit leaders, centering emotionally grounded leadership, conflict navigation, and liberation-based healing practices. Her work supports mission-driven organizations in building healing, non-oppressive, values-aligned cultures by guiding teams through strategic transitions, offering holistic frameworks, and strengthening systems of employee care.
Tanisha is also an award-winning interdisciplinary performing artist and filmmaker whose work has been presented across the United States and internationally. Her films and performance work appear on platforms such as Amazon Prime and iTunes and have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and other arts foundations. Her decades-long exploration of narrative, embodiment, and identity deeply inform her clinical and supervisory philosophy.
Committed to expanding access to culturally courageous, trauma-informed mental health care, Tanisha completed her clinical training at Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work and was selected for the Diversity in Social Work–Family Systems Program at the Ackerman Institute for the Family. Her therapeutic orientation is experiential, systemic, humanistic, and relational, grounded in liberation-based psychology and practices that honor the lived experience, cultural context, and resilience of each client.
She has worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups across a wide range of clinical settings, including complex trauma case management at Mount Sinai Hospital. As the founder of Liberation-Based Therapy, Tanisha leads a growing team of psychotherapists committed to culturally responsive care. She oversees clinical training, organizational strategy, and therapist development, with a focus on expanding liberatory frameworks within clinical practice and mental health systems toward a paradigm shift. Her current projects include developing innovative clinician training programs, expanding CEU offerings grounded in liberation-based values, and building partnerships for holistic care and tools that enhance well-being.
Across all of her work, Tanisha is guided by the belief that people are liberated through deeper connection to their stories, their communities, and their inherent wisdom. Her leadership reflects a long-standing commitment to healing justice, creative practice, and the power of transformation.