Services
About My Clients
I am passionate about offering counseling and therapy services to women and femmes of color experiencing anxiety, depression, life transitions, and issues around spirituality. Through interpersonal, contextualized therapy, mindfulness and somatic work (paying attention to our whole bodies), I aim to facilitate spaces where healing and wellness can be re-integrated.
My Background and Approach
I bring over 10 years of working with clients of diverse ethnic backgrounds and ages, along with a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and a master’s degree in Social Work. I work with people of color and women of color around reconnecting to themselves and taking up space in their bodies and relationships. I believe healing manifests itself in relationship-to oneself and to others, and so my work has a basis in that context. I work to remind and witness reconnection to internal resilience and external resources. The theories that guide my approach to counseling include: Interpersonal Therapy, Trauma Informed Care, Mindfulness Therapy, Somatic Theories, Attachment Theory, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution Focused Therapy. Feminist, Multicultural and Critical Social Theories are used in naming larger issues of oppression that have an impact on one’s identities and functioning.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Dislocation and a lack of space to be fully oneself was/is familiar to me. As a Nigerian immigrant who came to the United States to begin college, integration, visibility and agency with my identities and narrative was something I longed for, and was always a common theme with myself, and with others that I encountered. Finding these spaces- being with people and in relationships that allowed for, and actually invited wholeness, was transformative, and deeply therapeutic. In my spare time, I love caring for my plant babies, teaching myself to play piano and connecting with loved ones. I am also trying not to collect too many eye shadow palettes.