KEynote Speaker

DYLESIA HAMPTON BARNER, LCSW

Dylesia Hampton Barner, LCSW is an interpersonal trauma expert and founder of Trap Therapist. She specializes in equipping Black, millennial, generational-curse breaking women with the mental, emotional, and spiritual tools to recover from mother-daughter dysfunction, toxic friendships, poverty trauma, professional marginalization, unhealthy romantic relationships, spiritual abuse, and sexual violence.

In addition to Trap Therapist, Dylesia is the Founder of MESH (Mental, Emotional, & Spiritual Health), Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization established to prepare elementary, middle, high school, and college students from disadvantaged communities to enter careers in the wellness and mental health fields. She is also the Founder of the Co-Dependent or Cut Off (COCO) Conference, an event series aimed at equipping Black women with the tools to acknowledge and communicate their pain, deepen their intra and interpersonal awareness, and develop the skills to stop repeating toxic-mother daughter patterns.