Anna Morgan-Mullane

About Anna Morgan-Mullane

Dr. Morgan-Mullane is the Founder of Echo Community Practice and supervision practice where she employs intersectional anti-oppressive and trauma responsive therapeutic practices and guidance to those most impacted by systemic harms and other forms of oppression. Dr. Morgan-Mullane’s clinical orientation is in Narrative therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Family systems Therapy, and Somatic practices rooted and informed by abolitionist frameworks. Dr. Morgan-Mullane obtained her Doctorate in Social Work at New York University Silberman School of Social Work where she continues to serve as a professor teaching social policy and clinical courses.Dr. Anna Morgan-Mullane, LCSW-R (She/her) served as the President of Mental Health Services at Children of Promise, NYC for 14 years and serves as the President of Policy and Procedures of Mental Health to Fresh Youth Initiatives in New York. Dr. Morgan-Mullane conducts an extensive training program for MSW and MHC interns, Licensed Clinical Social workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, psychiatrists, and licensed creative art therapists that allows everyone to gain anti-racist and critical culturally responsive therapeutic skills needed to support individuals, families, and communities impacted by the injustice system, complex trauma, and intergenerational trauma. In 2012, Dr. Morgan-Mullane successfully established the first outpatient mental health clinic in the United States specifically designed to address the experiences and narratives of children and adolescents impacted by hyper incarceration. Dr. Morgan-Mullane has also developed clinical policies and practice guidelines and launched an evidence-informed treatment model which includes the employment of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, complex trauma systems theory, and Mitigation Practices. Dr. Morgan-Mullane’s work explores the intersection of clinical social work, social policy, and systemic racism within all injustice systems. Dr. Morgan-Mullane teaches in Masters and Doctoral programs on several courses she developed on the intersectionality of clinical policy and practice within injustice reform and abolition and mental health implications for those impacted by systemic oppression.

Experience

1. Faculty Lecturer

   Antioch University

   Sep 2023 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   I bring a critical, abolitionist lens to my teaching, clinical training, and scholarship—centering racial justice, liberation psychology, and community-rooted healing practices. My courses offer a deep commitment to decolonizing mental health by teaching students to critically analyze and dismantle systems of whiteness embedded in therapeutic frameworks. With an emphasis on racial harm as a core trauma, I guide students in understanding the impact of systemic oppression—including white supremacy, carceral systems, colonialism, and capitalism—on individuals and communities seeking care. I infuse all coursework with liberation models, centering the experiences of those most impacted by racialized violence, systemic inequity, and generational trauma. I develop course materials that challenge Eurocentric and pathologizing frameworks within the mental health field. As an abolitionist educator, I view the classroom as a site of both healing and resistance. I teach from a liberatory framework that recognizes racial harm and systemic violence as core traumas—especially for Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color. In both theory and practice, I help students trace how white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism shape the landscapes of mental health, and how these systems show up in the therapy room. My pedagogy emphasizes deconstructing clinical neutrality, interrogating diagnostic frameworks rooted in white supremacy, and cultivating client-centered, culturally responsive approaches that honor resistance as survival. I challenge students to recognize the material and historical conditions of the clients they serve and to name systems of harm as part of the healing process. I center the voices, traditions, and stories of those most harmed by dominant systems, and uplift ancestral knowledge, somatic wisdom, and community-based practices in our shared learning. My teaching affirms that healing is political, and that therapy must be in service of liberation.

Education

• NYU Silver School of Social Work

  Doctorate of Social Welfare in Clinical Social Work

• Fordham University

  Master of Social Work - MSW

• Seattle University

  Bachelor of Science - BS