Clinical Supervisors
Meet the team.
Our expert supervisors are a highly skilled, multidisciplinary team of clinicians and scholars who specialize in racial trauma and culturally responsive care. Each supervisor holds advanced credentials and has undergone rigorous training in Dr. Monnica T. Williams’ Healing Racial Trauma approach, bringing years of experience in both frontline practice and academic research. Our supervisors represent a range of backgrounds and identities, ensuring rich, intersectional perspectives. They have worked in community mental health centers, university clinics, and private practice settings across North America. Committed to anti-racist principles and ongoing professional development, they combine evidence-based interventions with deep cultural humility to guide therapists in delivering transformative, client-centered care.
Monnica Williams, PhD, ABPP
Clinical Psychologist & Professor
Dr. Williams is a board-certified clinical psychologist, Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Mental Health Innovation and Equity at the University of Ottawa. Her work focuses on mental health in communities of color, psychopathology research, interventions to reduce racism, and legal issues. Dr. Williams has published over 200 scientific articles, primarily on trauma, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and cultural concerns. She serves on the Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) and the Racial Equity and Access Committee of the Chacruna Institute. She is a member of the Association of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies (ABCT), where she has served as associate editor of the journal Behavior Therapy. Her work has been featured in all major media outlets in the US and Canada.
Rajni Sharma, PhD
Community Psychologist & Adjunct Professor
Dr. Sharma is an Ontario registered psychotherapist and art therapist, practicing in mental health for the last 12 years. She completed a graduate diploma in Art Therapy followed by a Masters in Counselling Psychology and doctorate in Community Psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research is on how to address and heal from the experiences of racial trauma in therapy, specifically, training/re-training therapists on how to address this. Her ongoing research also includes psychedelic therapy and how that can be used to address trauma. Her work with clients includes exploring the mind-body connection to heal trauma, discovering how past experiences are connected to the present, unpacking thought patterns, regulating emotions, or learning how our challenges are connected to structural realities that can be oppressive and impact mental health.
Angela M. Haeny, PhD
Clinical Psychologist & Assistant Professor
Dr. Haeny is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and the founding Director of the Racial Equity & Addiction Lab. A clinical psychologist by training, Dr. Haeny’s research centers on understanding and addressing the intersection of systemic racism and substance use disorders, with a focus on developing culturally informed prevention and intervention strategies. She has led NIH-funded studies on community-based approaches to addiction treatment, mentors emerging scholars of diverse backgrounds, and teaches graduate courses on equity-driven clinical practice and research methodology.
Lorraine Benuto, PhD
Clinical Psychologist & Research Methodologist
Dr. Benuto a licensed clinical psychologist and expert in research methodology. She is fully bilingual (Spanish and English) and has presented research at State and National conferences and is currently editing 3 books (one on adolescent health psychology and two on psychological assessment). She has expertise in the areas of psychological assessment, neuropsychological assessment, the delivery of evidence-based interventions (therapy/counseling), the cultural sensitivity movement, and human sexuality.