You’re one of the few people of color at your job and it comes with the racial fatigue of having to be “on” all the time. You’re having to decide one too many times if you have the capacity to address that micro-aggression this time or if you have to let it go to preserve your day. You’re giving your all to a job that stresses you out and you feel close to experiencing burn-out. Then after work you feel you don’t have the time to pour into your relationships. It’s exhausting! Let’s also name situations like this what they are: Traumatic stress due to racial identity.

Racial Trauma may often include healing from other difficulties such as:

• Racial Fatigue

• Generational Trauma

• Attachment Wounds

• Financial Distress

• Issues with Family of Origin

• Inclusion and Belonging

• Intersectional Identity Work

Therapy can help break these experiences down for easier processing and development of coping strategies so you don’t have to be at the edge of overwhelm in your day-to-day. If you are looking for a black therapist providing counseling services, look no further.

If you feel like you need more in addition to talk therapy, check out the “Brainspotting” tab.

You find it hard saying that two-letter word… N. O. to your partner, family or friends but every time you don’t you feel like you betray your needs. You’re adding more to your plate and just thinking about it makes you jittery. You don’t want to disappoint anyone but you’re feeling disconnected from your own body. You don’t feel like yourself but you know you want to work at feeling more grounded.

Working on managing stress and anxiety can mean diving into:

• Setting and maintaining boundaries

• Restructuring work-life balance

• Taking an inventory of values

• Reflecting on decision-making process

• Connecting physical wellness to mental health

Let’s start putting YOU first and create boundaries and a plan to get more of what you want out of life.

There’s no getting around having to engage in relationships throughout life and they can be one of your greatest sources of support. But what if some of them are a source of stress?

Relationship issues can exist in different relational dynamics:

• Romantic

• Familial

• Friendships

• Career

• Community

• LGBTQIA+

• Non-monogamy

Therapy can help you identify your stuck points in moving the relationship you want to work on to a healthier state. This means you have to work on defining what a healthy relationships looks like and embodying it for yourself.

A Highly Sensitive Person describes the experiences of those that possess a trait known as a sensory processing sensitivity. Highly Sensitive Persons experience high levels of arousal to their central nervous system as a result of external and internal activity. Highly Sensitive Persons makeup 20% of the population so they may feel misunderstood because they can be. Having a sensory processing sensitivity does not mean it is a disorder; being a Highly Sensitive Person is a trait.

Highly Sensitive Persons may experience a deeper level of processing information, overwhelm due to processing of the environment, strong connection to emotional cues or high levels of empath, and high level of awareness of subtleties in the environment.

This may look like:

• Feeling like there is always a deeper meaning

• May become easily overwhelmed with stimulus in the environment

• Sensitivity to sounds, fabrics, and light

• Feeling energy of those around you

• Difficulty with change or switching between tasks

• Difficulty with criticism and conflict

• Conscientious, perceptive, moved by beauty/arts/music

Therapy can help you honor your energy, determine your capacity, create alternatives, incorporate boundaries, re-evaluate processes, and seek support.

Brainspotting is an alternative to traditional talk therapy. Brainspotting uses your visual field to support processing unresolved trauma in the brain. Brainspotting is a treatment style or “tool” to help identify, process, and then release difficult emotions that are often times felt in the body. Simply put, Brainspotting is about where you look influencing how you feel.

While Brainspotting originated as a treatment style for Trauma, it can also be helpful for difficulties with:

• Anxiety

• Anger

• Motivation

• Panic Attacks

• Perfectionsism

• Performance… and more

Brainspotting can be used in conjuction with talk therapy to move forward in your healing process.

Individual Therapy - $160-200 per session

Couples/Partner Therapy - $250 per session

Ethical Non-Monogamy Partner Coaching - $250 per session

Highly Sensitive Person Coaching - $250 per session

Support Groups - $50 per session

No-shows and late cancellations under 24 hours are subject to a fee equal to the full session rate. Insurance does not cover this fee.

Workshops, trainings and webinars are offered on a range of mental health and wellness topics with an anti-racist and decolonized approach to all organization types.

Workshops can include (but not limited to) topics on the following:

• Diversity and Inclusion

• Financial Wellness

• Radical Self-Care

• Stress Management

• Trauma Recovery

Workshops are interactive and can range in time from 30-120 minutes with an emphasis on experiential learning. You may also request customized workshops and/or trainings to fit the unique needs of your organization.

Consulting services are offered with a strategic problem-solving approach for individuals, groups, and organizations that would like support on the following:

• Entering into the telehealth field and/or building an online practice

• Offering relevant in-house mental health services or trainings

• Providing staff professional development in areas such as conflict resolution, leadership, and stress management etc.

Consulting services may be requested at any stage of your process but are provided with your end goals in mind.