Individual Therapy

For Women of Color and Individuals in the LGBTQ+ Community Living with Depression, Anxiety, and Childhood Trauma.

Counseling for those with a desire to live fully in the present.

How can I support you? How can I help you?

If you know what to do but find yourself unable to take action for a myriad of reasons, schedule a consultation with me so that we can talk about:

Your reciprocal support system and community
Your energy drains
Your areas of procrastination
Your plans and steps to get there

Healing is not only unpacking what happened to you, it is also acknowledging and addressing how it shows up in your present life.

In your present life, check in with yourself:

Who supports you? How?
Who do you provide support? How?
Who or what is making your life feel full?
What or who is draining your energy?
What or who are you avoiding?

Do your own life satisfaction assessment:

How satisfied are you with your physical health (keeping medical, dental, and vision appointments)? Taking prescribed and helpful medications? Knowing how much rest you need to get restorative sleep and prioritizing bedtimes more days than not?

How satisfied are you with your mental health? Do you need to have therapy? Do you need an assessment for medication to improve your mental health symptoms?

How satisfied are you with your current level of education or your career path/income stream?

How satisfied are you with your finances to include housing, transportation, and disposable income?

How satisfied are you with the emotional depth of family relationships, romantic relationships, friendships, neighbors?

How satisfied are you with your level of community engagement (i.e. helping out on your block or in your neighborhood, working with a local community organization in a cause you find important, volunteering your time to a cause, donating to a cause)?

How satisfied are you with how you spend your free time? Do you plan something to look forward to each week? Do have a third space? Are you satisfied with how much time you spend having fun, smiling, and laughing?

How satisfied are you with your spiritual rituals or religious faith practices?

Depending on your emotional support system, resources, and personality, we can have you prioritizing you and centering your needs in your own life within 6-12 months (meeting bi-weekly).

This is not bootcamp time, this is softness, tenderness, gentleness time. Self-doubt is welcome into our sessions. Anxiety is welcome into our sessions. Childhood trauma triggers are welcome into our sessions together. We can thank them for their service and help them decrease their time with us.

If you are ready to thrive, text me. I can help you thrive. You can start living and not just existing. It is time to make space for you in your life.

Schedule your free 30-minute therapy video or phone consultation now.

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Transforming trauma, one session at a time.

Talking with a therapist who gets it is a completely different experience than someone going through the motions and telling you to use affirmations to overcome adversity. Trauma, depression, anxiety, and living in a marginalized body is not that simple. We cannot just get over it or move past it.

To experience an amazing life, you are going to need a thought companion. You are going to need someone to point out your blind spots. You will need someone to help you remain focused on your values, what is important to you, so that you do not forget who you are. You need a therapist to provide emotional support when sh*t hits the fan, and everything falls apart. You need a therapist to remind you of the people in your life who are there for you, so that you focus less on trying to persuade people to love you, accept you. Stop chasing external validation.

We all live in a system with three soul-crushing ingredients: patriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalism, you are not The Problem. The System is The Problem, and you alone cannot fix it or overcome it. What you CAN do is learn how to be authentic inside these systems. You can learn how to live a values-based life within these systems. With decolonized therapy, you can experience freedom and liberation on your own terms.

Decolonized Therapy is Culturally Affirming

How does it work?

Therapy sessions focus on what you can control. While we will discuss what happened to you, we will not remain in this space because you cannot change what happened to you in the past. All your emotions and feelings tied to your trauma are not within your control. They kind of just sneak up on you. However, you can control what action you take because of those emotions.

Therapy sessions will not tell you not to think this way or that. Oppression is real, not an imagined experience and in therapy sessions, I promise to constantly call it out. I will not allow you to take responsibility for systems that were not designed to support you in the first place.

Therapy sessions will be about making different choices. You can change your mind. Everything and everyone that you have allowed to dictate how you move in this world will receive eviction papers in therapy. I will teach you how to listen to your own voice, do what is best for you, and prioritize your mental health.

If Past Therapy Was Helpful but You Hit a Wall, Decolonized Therapy is For You

Capitalism, white supremacy, and the patriarchy are not your fault. You did not create these systems of oppression, and you cannot dismantle them. Someone told you that you can get a degree, get a respectable job, and earn a high salary, and the systems will work in your favor. This is a cruel lie.

I want to invite you to consider a different way of being in this world.

You might be asking yourself, “How is therapy going to solve my problems?” You still think you are The Problem. The System is The Problem. Therapy helps you make decisions that benefit you and improve your emotional well-being despite the systems that are in place to rob you of your joy and freedom.

If you think you are too busy to address these issues, this is the time to start therapy.

You may experience hopelessness about feeling better. Therapy does not guarantee you will feel better. Most people feel like sh*t when they start therapy because of all the baggage they unpack in their sessions. Trauma-informed therapy provides a container for emotional distress so you can safely discuss the past without be re-traumatized by it.

Schedule your free 30-minute video or phone consultation now.

Schedule your free consultation today.

Therapy is Useful

Feedback from People of Color and LGBTQ+ Folks

While I can’t share specific testimonials due to confidentiality, I can tell you what past and current folks say:

“This therapy session was helpful in lots of ways but particularly because I felt validated. Most therapists downplay what’s going on by saying, ‘think of all the positive things in your life’ or ‘other people have it worse.’ I needed someone to say, ‘I hear you’ because it makes me feel like I’m not being overly sensitive or weak.”

“Words can’t express how helpful and supportive you have been. I can’t imagine going through my divorce alone.”

“Thank you for lowering my anxiety level during this therapy session.”

“You’ve unlocked something in my mind, and I am grateful you went to school for this. I feel so empowered when talking to you.”

Schedule your free 30-minute video or phone consultation now. It’s time to take the first step towards feeling better.

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