Ayesha Youngblood (she/her)

I provide a safe, empathetic space for individuals and couples navigating infertility, offering emotional support and coping tools to manage the stress, grief, and uncertainty of the journey. Together, we’ll explore ways to build resilience and find meaning through this challenging process.

DBT combines mindfulness and emotional regulation to help you navigate overwhelming emotions and improve interpersonal skills. I use DBT to support clients in managing distress, finding balance, and building a life aligned with their values.

As a Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist, I have extensive expertise in treating eating disorders, disordered eating, body image issues, and the pervasive shame that underlies these struggles. My work addresses the emotional, relational, and cultural factors that contribute to eating disorders, including perfectionism, trauma, family dynamics, and cultural pressures around appearance. I provide compassionate, non-judgmental support that helps clients develop healthier relationships with food.

As a Clinical Trauma Professional certified in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, I specialize in treating trauma—including childhood trauma, complex PTSD, sexual abuse, and intergenerational trauma. My trauma work uses evidence-based approaches to help clients process traumatic memories, reduce symptoms, and reclaim their lives. I understand how trauma affects relationships, self-esteem, and daily functioning. My approach creates safety and trust while addressing the deep wounds of the past.

I specialize in comprehensive perinatal and maternal mental health support, including pregnancy loss, IVF and fertility challenges, NICU experiences, postpartum anxiety and depression, birth trauma, and the emotional complexities of early motherhood. My expertise addresses the grief, guilt, shame, and isolation that often accompany these experiences. I provide trauma-informed, compassionate care for mothers navigating the gap between expectation and reality in pregnancy, childbirth, and PPD.

My approach integrates DBT skills training with comprehensive trauma-informed care. DBT provides practical tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness—essential for managing anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and relationship challenges. My trauma-informed lens ensures all interventions prioritize safety, trust, and empowerment.

As a certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist, I understand how shame operates beneath anxiety, depression, eating disorders, trauma, and relationship struggles. My approach helps clients identify shame triggers, develop shame resilience, and build self-compassion. Shame-informed treatment is particularly effective for perinatal mental health (guilt over pregnancy loss, postpartum struggles), eating disorders, childhood trauma, and cultural/family expectations.

I'm certified in Accelerated Resolution Therapy, an evidence-based treatment that rapidly reduces trauma symptoms and emotional distress. ART uses eye movements similar to EMDR but often achieves results more quickly, making it particularly effective for trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and intrusive memories. My expertise in ART allows clients to process traumatic experiences—including pregnancy loss, childhood abuse, and life transitions—without having to verbally relive every detail.