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About My Clients
Embarking on a journey toward healing is a courageous step, and I commend you for taking it! You may have been wrestling with this question, this issue, this challenge for days, months or years and you've decided to tackle it! You prefer a Black male therapist who will push you to consider alternative solutions without judgment. Whether your struggle is depression, anxiety, relationships, anger, porn/sex, or just navigating this society that wasn't designed for your success, I got you!
My Background and Approach
Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Supervisor with over 30 years' experience in the mental health field. I've practised in nearly every setting where therapy is offered, with myriad types of clients--nonprofit agencies, for-profit agencies, psychiatric hospitals, military base, VA hospital, K-12 school district, crisis response. My current practice includes offering psychotherapy and Adjunct Professor at a local graduate social work college. I also offer clinical supervision for LMSWs working towards LCSW. My therapeutic approach includes (1) guided talks to assist you towards understanding yourself, your behavior, and how your past influences your present; and (2) homework assignments to help you practice and deepen the things we discuss in session. The ultimate goal of becoming an LCSW is independent clinical practice, so as a supervisor, my goal is to teach and guide you towards being a competent, ethnical independent psychotherapy practitioner.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Some of my strongest personal beliefs influencing my work with Black clients are: (1) We Black men have lost our abilities to be leaders and masculine men, we we must regain those if we are to lead our community as our forefathers did; (2) Black folks' efforts to integrate into larger American society have pushed us away from our ethnic nature. As a result we've become a splintered community, which we must overcome and return to our original purpose; (3) The dominant society does not define our experience. We do. Therefore when you find yourself accepting and using such terms as POC/BIPOC, minorities, disadvantaged/marginalized communities, Black & Brown, etc., you are working against our interest, not for it.