About Us

Co-founder of the F.L.O.Y.D. Foundation,

 

Chantelle is a Liscened Clinical Social Worker and Liberation Focused Trauma Specialist. Chantelle has also served as an Adjunct Proffessor at Columbia University's School of Social Work since 2018, teaching "Direct Practice with Family, Individuals and Groups" which focuses on conducting mental health treatment assessment, planning and direct therapy skills.  From 2013-2019, Chantelle  worked providing court mandated intensive family and individual therapy for youth as an alternative to incarceration. Seeing the deep need for trauma healing and ongoing support in this community, Chantelle started her own private practice, Ordinary Healing, LLC. Orindary Healing is based in New York City and dedicated to serving those with complex trauma and anxiety issues in creative and evidence based ways. The practice is particularly focused on serving those in historically oppressed and undeserved communities and expanded to offering workshops, retreats and trainings related to coping with and healing from complex trauma symptoms. Chantelle is also a writer and singer and works to integrate creative expression and movement into therapeutic workshops.

Educator/Mental Health Counselor

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Currently serves as an educator in Brooklyn, NY. Shaz received her masters in Mental Health Counseling from Manhattan College. She has experience counseling individual and group settings. Her most recent experience was in partnership with the Montefiore Oncology department as a counseling intern. There she had the pleasure of assisting families as they prepared for end-of-life care for their loved ones, and counseling for patients who were in remission or recently diagnosed with cancer. Aside from her professional experience, Shaz is an avid advocator for mental health equity in her community.

Co-Founder of F.L.O.Y.D. Foundation

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Trena B. Real is rising actress / comedienne born in Port Arthur, Tx, and raised in the inner city of Norfolk, VA at an early age she always loved to be the center of attention being the baby of a big family growing up in the South with an array of crazy & comical family members every day was an adventure. Growing up in a neighborhood riddled with drugs and violence, she also experienced firsthand how to turn her pain into comedy. Her conversational style makes you feel like you're in her living room laughing. She talks about being a parent in the 21st century, reality TV, commercials, and her day-to-day life. With over 20 years in the entertainment industry behind the scenes, she decided to leave her day job and pursue her dreams of doing comedy & improv. In 2004-2009 she was the morning driving radio host on WTJZ- AM Hampton VA gospel station and worked for Willis broadcasting in Norfolk, VA where she created a gospel comedy hour for upcoming Christian comedians. In 2013 she was the opening act for Actress / Comedienne Phyllis Yvonne Stickney for Tri-state tour. She was the host of the Westchester Comedy Festival 2014- 2015 and most recently had the honor of  opening up for Gladys Knight & Stephanie Mills.

She has a love for making people Laugh.

Clubs Performed/Credits: Comic Strip-NYC, Canticles-BK, Poet's Den-East Harlem NYC Dinosaur BBQ -Harlem NYC, Westchester Comedy Festival,

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Video link; http://youtu.be/s4D1a-hfhh0

 

Website; http://tchance33.wix.com/trenabreal