Sharde' O'Rourke, LMFT, LPC, LSATP, SAP, PAI, CCTP, AHAD-CCSP
The framework for understanding the burden our people carry, and the training to treat it.
Sharde' O'Rourke is a licensed marriage and family therapist and the developer of Reclamation Theory, a liberation-focused clinical model built for practitioners working with Black clients whose burdens have too often been misread as brokenness.
Her clinical and scholarly work restores a lineage (Morrison, Fanon, Du Bois, DeGruy, Cross, and the theorists before them) that the field has long drawn from without crediting. Reclamation Theory is written for us, by us: a framework built inside the culture it treats, not translated for it after the fact.
She also practices as The Barefoot Therapist, and speaks widely on culturally-grounded, liberation-focused clinical work.
- LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor - LSATP
Licensed Substance Abuse Treatment Practitioner - SAP
Substance Abuse Professional (DOT) - PAI
Prepare/Enrich Certified Facilitator - CCTP
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional - AHAD-CCSP
Certified Clinical Sexuality Professional
What colleagues and audiences say
“This training has helped me to acknowledge some actions I must address to be an effective therapist.”