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Combining Transformative Justice Practices with Clinical Mental Health Counseling Techniques, Adejare (Ah-Day-Jah-Ray) McMillan, is professionally known as The Transformative Justice Therapist. This South Florida-based speaker, poet, and activist holds a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling, and is State Licensed as a Mental Health Counselor (LMHC). Additionally, he is currently writing his dissertation towards the completion of a Ph.D. in Couples and Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University. For the last decade, he has worked with people of all races, lifestyles, and ages — as young as 13 and upwards of 70 years old. Having been a member of several organizations dedicated to human rights and social justice, Adejare finds time to remain engaged in community activism, advocacy, and organizing — at times, specifically as a Transformative Justice Circle Keeper and Trainer.
Clients can expect questions and may bring some of their own. They should expect my curiosity while embracing that ‘the only way out is all the way through.’ They will receive instructions, precautions, and things to remember — and the opportunity to call a spade, a spade — to name things as they see fit.
Adejare is constantly seeking opportunities to educate, advocate, and grow awareness of Mental Health access, options, and opportunities primarily for Black people and other people of color. Throughout his years of professional experience and going forward as he continues to grow in his career, Adejare has and will continue to utilize his voice, position, and influence to truth to power as it always should be. He dedicates his life to creating and curating spaces within organizations and in community to foster movement toward solutions for issues, injustices, and misdeeds — influencing healing, and being of service when, where, and however he is able through the use of therapy, poetry and T.J. practices.
My clients in the past have been a little bit of the best, bits and pieces of the worst, and just about everywhere in between. While perfection isn’t quite attainable, the clients who I tend to do my best with are inquisitive, open to possibilities, and deeply desirous of change! They aren’t perfect, although they may feel compelled to be, but they are open to new tasks, and understanding that therapy is (self) work! Most importantly, they may fail, but they aren’t afraid to get up, dust themselves off, and try again. Word to Aaliyah.
While focusing on influencing change, I use various techniques to look into your stor(ies), their construction, and their impact on your life. With this information, together we can work to reconstruct a story that best fits and most supports who you desire to be.
While we may need the remainder of our time here to work towards peace and harmony in our lives, using TFCBT allows us to unpack and examine the wounds of your past as a means of debriding and making room for deep and lasting healing to occur.
Life’s hardest questions often come with the most beautiful and/or tragic answers. Our existence is as it always has been: malleable and within our grasp. Together through asking the right questions, hopefully we can arrive at some transformational answers.
As a Black man living in today’s United States, it goes without needing to be said that my existence here is not beyond the reaches of racism, the other -isms, and the phobias alike. Together, we can curate a space for you, by you where you have permission to be in-full. Take a chance and step into the most “youest-you” you may never have been before.