I am a Queer Black Woman who is also a Fundamentalist-in-recovery; I work with people who feel marginalized, overwhelmed, or stuck. My clients are folks who want to be more functional in relationships, to accept themselves more fully, and to learn to reach for more LIFE from their LIVES. I am an no-nonsense therapist, who speaks from the head AND the heart. My clients know that we start from the understanding that "Stuff is Fudged up," and we can still get joy out of our lives. I hold an LMSW-C license and have been working with clients for 3 years. Before that I was a college English professor for 23 years. My clients tell me I can do magic with words, and help them to do that same kind of magic.
In our first session, we will do the intake questions and get a sense of your best case scenario for our therapy relationship. I want to know what your greatest hopes might be for your own life.
I am an no-nonsense therapist, who speaks from the head AND the heart. My clients know that we start from the understanding that "Stuff is Fudged up," and we can still get joy out of our lives. So, let's get serious about getting it!
YOU are amazing. You are a person who believes there could possibly be more joy, love, passion, hope in your life and in the world. You are a person who might feel down, overwhelmed, or even exhausted by (waves frantically) everything, and you are still holding out some hope. There must be something more. Or perhaps you feel at the end of your various ropes. Perhaps you feel like things are hanging by a thread: your relationships, your work life, your education, your identity, your hope. Perhaps you feel like you don't have any more duct tape or zip ties and there seems to be nowhere left to turn. Or perhaps you are a person who is curious about themselves and their interactions with the world.
As a Queer Black Woman who is also a Fundamentalist-in-recovery, I have intimate knowledge of how life can change quickly and over time. It is always surprising how much each of us might have in common. The reality of our function within the systems arrayed around us is what we can confront when thinking existentially.
With over 23 years of college teaching, I am well practiced in supporting people at all levels of education engagement. Psychoeducation is a methodology that supports people toward the possibility of more active participation in their own process of reclaiming themselves. I can teach you how to manage the weirdnesses. Really.