Inclusive therapy for BIPOC Adults

Culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, & intersectional

In Durham, NC

Let's Work Together

You seek to be truly seen and deeply healed.

Maybe you've tried therapy before, but it often felt like you had to explain or defend yourself, and the therapist didn't fully understand your experiences. You've encountered microaggressions in therapy, where it felt like you had to do all the work for the therapist to even notice. You're tired of therapists who only focus on your race and you want to delve deeper into your healing journey.

As you've started exploring what you want to work on, you've realized you need a therapist who can go beyond surface-level issues and help you achieve lasting change.

  • Feeling dismissed, minimized, or misunderstood 

    Stuck in old loops that are keeping you from the life you truly desire 

    Experiencing disconnection in your relationships

  • You might feel disconnected from the people you care about most. Sometimes you suddenly get upset for no reason. It's hard to chill and just be yourself. You're always tense, not sure who you can really count on.

Therapy can be what you hoped it was…

When you commit to this process you might find: 

You feel more connected to yourself and your experiences 

Your relationships feel more supportive and in alignment with who you are 

Day-to-day life comes with more ease

You have a greater capacity to handle stressors in life 

The smallest thing no longer sets you off

You feel capable of supporting yourself and getting your needs met 

In our work together, we create space for your whole lived experience. Using body-focused techniques and practices, I’m mindful and supportive of healing old wounds. You'll have the freedom to explore and reconnect with yourself, your community, and nature, helping you to find  true alignment.

I'm here to support you as you unfurl at your own pace, using somatic healing practices, parts work, mindfulness, and cultural sensitivity. Through these modalities, we'll navigate your identity and experiences with care, moving toward healing and integrating the patterns that hold you back in life.

Let's Work Together

Our work together can help you…

  • Gain trust in your intuitive capacity, helping you make decisions and find true alignment 

  • Prioritize the care you need to thrive and be a supportive member in your local and our global community 

  • Build supportive relationships that don’t require you to compromise or minimize yourself 

  • Create and sustain supportive habits that encourage ongoing growth and healing 

  • More quickly and easily identify when and how to set and hold healthy boundaries that support your flourishing

No more settling.

Deep healing is possible.

Let's Work Together

FAQs

  • Culturally sensitive care is about recognizing and respecting your cultural background and how it influences your life. It's understanding the unique wisdom and potential harm that come with your cultural experiences. In our space, we embrace the full spectrum of your experiences, allowing room for exploration and understanding without judgment.

  • It's crucial for therapists to be culturally sensitive because our cultural experiences shape our entire lives. Culture isn't just something we add on; it's woven into everything we do. It's the lens through which we see the world, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Since our cultural experiences are deeply intertwined with our lives, it's essential for therapists to understand and respect them. When you step into therapy, your therapist needs to acknowledge and grasp the role culture plays in your life. This allows for a more inclusive and comprehensive exploration of your experiences during sessions.

  • Trauma-informed care is a thoughtful approach that takes into account the effects of trauma on individuals. It acknowledges how trauma can deeply influence people's lives and behaviors. By understanding these impacts, trauma-informed care aims to provide support and services in ways that promote healing and avoid retraumatization.

  • Trauma-informed care refers to whether or not the clinician is able to appropriately and effectively support someone as they process and heal from trauma, avoiding retraumatization. They have the appropriate tools and skills in order to support the client to move toward integration and healing.

    It is important for clinicians who are working with trauma survivors to be trauma-informed in order to make space for healing and not be apart of retraumatization or further traumatizing the client from a lack of knowledge, training, or experience.

  • Intersectionality is a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a legal scholar and feminist thinker. It refers to the ways a person's various identities, such as race, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status, intersect to shape their experiences of discrimination and oppression. These intersections can result in either privilege or disadvantage based on one’s belonging to multiple marginalized groups.

    Understanding intersectionality offers a new perspective on how different aspects of identity compound to influence an individual's advantages or challenges. It provides a deeper understanding of the ways cultural experiences can either propel someone forward or hold them back within societal systems.

    In therapy, incorporating an intersectional lens acknowledges that individuals' life circumstances are influenced by more than just personal choices. It recognizes the broader social and systemic factors that impact one's position in society, thereby avoiding placing sole responsibility on the client and fostering a more holistic approach to healing.