Services
- Individual
About My Clients
My clients are folks who are seeking support with exploring their parental identify and perinatal mental health, relationship and family challenges, adjustment to major life changes, young adulthood, spiritual identity, race-based stress and navigating the world as BIPOC individuals. Clients that gravitate towards me tend to appreciate my directness and willingness to hold them accountable, while also normalizing the barriers and systemic challenges they face and encouraging hope.
My Background and Approach
I am a licensed clinical social worker, so seeing and addressing your individual, relational, cultural, and social needs is at the core of our work together. I use a client-led approach and believe you are the expert on your own experiences and needs. I will support you in identifying, exploring, and expressing those needs by strengthening your emotional tolerance, building coping and communication skills, identifying support systems, and making behavioral changes that allow you to live in alignment with your values. We will focus on building a treatment plan that allows you to honor your emotional needs, build a sense of empowerment, and identify action steps to live a full life beyond the stressors, trauma, grief, and systemic oppression you may face. As a certified perinatal mental health therapist, I specialize in treating mood and anxiety disorders and grief in moms, dads, and non-binary birthing people, during pre-conception, pregnancy, and postpartum.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
As a Black, cisgender woman, who is Christian identified I believe that identity, safety, and hope are foundational to mental health. I recognize that the work we do in therapy does not happen in a bubble, and reaching mental wellness and developing resilience in your interpersonal lives must include a space to voice generational pains, systemic barriers, and how the current sociopolitical climate impacts your life. My approach includes helping clients identify their values, what resistance may feel like to them, how to advocate for themselves, and when accessible, how to engage in activism that feels aligned with their values, as well as how to utilize safe spaces and community to experience respite, rest, and joy. Our experiences of race, culture, community, and faith shape our worldview, including our beliefs about ourselves, so exploring and acknowledging all of these pieces is a vital part of my work with all of my clients.