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About My Clients
I celebrate, respect, and honor our essential needs for wellness, balance, peace, and connection. Just like healthy eating, exercise, spiritual practice, and supportive family and friends, therapy is a way of helping people to be healthy and to have harmonious and fulfilling lives. The process of living also brings seasons of transition, crisis, and despair. In such times, therapy is often a refuge of support, validation, healing, and hope. I welcome you to a meaningful therapeutic experience.
My Background and Approach
My style of therapy is integrative, holistic, relational, trauma-informed, feminist, and multicultural. I draw from diverse sources: experience, theory, education, research, best practices, reading, arts, traveling, relationships, spirituality, movement; to provide care for your whole person—mind, body, and spirit; you within your environment; past, present, and future contexts. I seek to offer understanding, empathy, connection, validation, and affirmation as you are living your life. We can collaboratively, creatively, and authentically work together to help you identify, access, and use your personal gifts and beloved community to address issues you may be experiencing…or just have a deep sit down to help you along your journey.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I was born and had my proud identity cultivated in historic Tuskegee, Alabama. I credit the Tuskegee community with preparing me to be an engaged and socially responsible world citizen. I now live in Raleigh, NC with my partner, Juliette, with whom I often work, and our two children and two cats (because I love my partner and children more than I do unscratched furniture). My favorite singer of all time is Sade. Every song on every album she has ever released touches my soul and I never tire of them. One of my favorites is titled, It’s Only Love That Gets You Through. I also believe that to be true in my own life. While some of my social identities include being an African-American, Black, cisgender, heterosexual, man, I identify much more with being a deeply feeling human being connected to all of life. I am affected by the mistreatment, pain, and suffering of others. I do not, however, seek to rescue or to save. My calling seems to be to join, listen, sit with, and bear witness.