Press Kit

Downloadable Assets

For All Photos Please Credit: Sara Prada

Ly Franshaua Pipkins is a licensed clinical psychologist and writer whose work explores healing beyond talk—through embodiment, imagination, and cultural memory. “I don’t mind talking about pain,” she says, “but I’ve learned that I and my clients can get lost there. So I commit to the practice of hope—and the discipline of healing.”

Short Bio

Ly Franshaua Pipkins is a licensed clinical psychologist and writer whose work explores the intimate intersections of healing, embodiment, and cultural memory. Trained in fast-paced medical systems and rooted in mind-body psychology, she writes about what happens when healing deepens beyond talk—toward ancestral imagery, EMDR, nervous system integration, and imaginative repair.

She holds a doctorate in clinical psychology and has worked in hospitals, HMOs, and now private practice, where she helps clients access healing that is imaginative, culturally rooted, and ethically held. Her work draws from both professional training and lived experience, shaped by an ethic of care and a deep respect for the body’s wisdom.

She is especially interested in how psychology is evolving beyond exposure-based models—toward modalities that affirm cultural identity, nervous system regulation, and spiritual integrity. Her writing centers the inner lives of Black women and nonbinary people, and asks what becomes possible when we stop performing survival and begin practicing return.

“I don’t mind talking about pain,” she says. “I believe naming it has power. But I’ve learned that I and my clients can get lost there if we’re not careful. So I commit to the practice of hope—and the discipline of healing.”

Her practice blends resourcing, imagination, and ancestral presence—and a careful negotiation with her yoga ball, where building core strength over 40 meets the real fear of falling during Zoom sessions.

As a licensed clinical psychologist, writer, coach, and yogi, I bring rigorous clinical training and a deep commitment to ethical practice into all areas of my work. I hold a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from The Wright Institute, a Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. I am a first-generation college graduate, fulfilling the generational dream of building a life rooted in intellectual freedom, cultural care, and healing.

In both my clinical work and public writing, I uphold the highest ethical standards. I maintain a clear boundary between my personal story and the sacred healing journeys of my clients. When I reference clinical material, it is always drawn from composites or with key details changed to protect identity and honor the sacred nature of the therapeutic relationship. The healing journeys of those I work with remain entirely their own.

My work centers on expanding the conversation around mind-body healing, racialized trauma, embodied joy, and reclaiming the full humanity of Black women and nonbinary people. I write, practice, and teach at the intersections of race, gender, class, and health—grounded in both lived experience and research, and committed to forms of healing that don’t require re-performance of pain.

Professional Standards