Women's Counseling for Black Women Ready to Heal

Consistent with both our professional and personal identities, we find that relationships are an integral part of identity and wellness. Our relationships help us better understand ourselves, others, and various aspects of life. In the same way, our clients make sense of the world through their relationships, often finding that the challenges they confront are related to relational variables. In our work with diverse populations, one theme remained consistent: the desire to connect, to others, to feelings, to self. As such, our role as your therapists is to co-facilitate a therapeutic process that fosters that connection.

Our Approach to Women's Counseling

We utilize a strength-based approach to women's therapy, grounded in relational, multicultural, and feminist theories. We incorporate Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to help women build skills in mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. We also lean heavily on the use of Interpersonal Process in therapy to foster a safe, reliable, and authentic relationship with all of our clients.

In our work, you'll notice how we "call in" and invite you to do so as well, aspects of energy, nonverbal communication, emotional experiences, and more that feel meaningful to our work together. We model vulnerability and authenticity by sharing aspects of our own lived experiences where it feels appropriate. You'll experience how we not only observe the content and details of your story, but also the process by which you share your story: what's going on emotionally as you share, what it feels like to say this part of your story out loud.

Our work as therapists is also rooted in honoring the parts of our identities that feel connected, while also honoring the parts that may offer tension. It's important to us that we call in not only personal variables like race, social class, age cohort, and sexual identity, but also interrogate how you experience life within the broader cultural systems.

We feel strongly that our training in Counseling Psychology has made us equipped to facilitate not only growth and change, but empowerment among diverse populations. Rooted in personal experiences and clinical training, we place multiculturalism, social justice, anti-racism, and advocacy at the forefront of our work.

"Negotiating our place in the world is often influenced by the interworking of our culture and systems, all of which impact our development, wellbeing, and worldview."

Some of our clinical interests include trauma therapy (particularly identity-based trauma and interpersonal violence), relationship challenges, identity exploration, diversity and inclusion, postpartum depression, perinatal specialty support, and body image.

I feel strongly that my training in Counseling Psychology, has made me equipped to facilitate, not only growth and change but empowerment among diverse populations. Resultant of personal expe- riences and clinical training, I place multi- culturalism, social justice, anti-racism, and advocacy at the forefront of my work. “Negotiating our place in the world is often influenced by the interworking of our culture and systems, all of which impact our development, wellbeing, and worldview.” SOME of my clinical interests include trauma (particularly identity-based trauma and interper-sonal violence), relationship challenges, identity exploration, diversity and inclusion, and body image. In my free time, I enjoy time with loved ones, traveling, shopping, and anything adventurous.