Myisha R. Rodrigues, PhD, LMHC (she series), is a core faculty member of Counseling & Psychology at Lesley University and the CEO/Founder of Third Veil Consulting®, LLC. With over 20 years of experience in the mental health and education sectors, she is committed to actualizing employee well-being and developing healthy organizational systems and culture through healing centered engagement.
Leading macro-level organizational change, Dr. Rodrigues seeks to connect theory to practice through transformative coaching and strategic initiatives. With progressive experience in direct service, senior management, and executive leadership, her commitment to social justice has been guided by a holistic approach to liberatory praxis. As a licensed mental health counselor and trauma specialist, her clinical practice is enhanced through expressive arts, somatic techniques, and mind-body practice. Given her professional narrative has been crystallized through engagement in the performing, literary, and visual arts, Dr. Rodrigues leverages this experience to shape and facilitate the professional development of her peers locally, nationally, and internationally.
Dr. Rodrigues earned a PhD from Lesley University with a concentration in Transformative Leadership, Education, and Applied Research. There she coined embodied critical analysis™ to highlight employee well-being through researching the impact of systemic oppression on Black public school educators. Generally, her scholarship centers critical psychology with embodied methodology to better understand workplace well-being within a systemic and cultural context. Additionally, Dr. Rodrigues earned an M.A. in Mental Health Counseling from Boston College, a B.A. in Dance and Movement Studies with a concentration in Psychology from Emory University, and a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Tufts University’s Institute for Nonprofit Practice.