Black Healing Practice
Who This Is For
This is a space for Black adults who are tired of carrying everything alone emotionally, culturally, and psychologically.
Here, your experiences are named, your reactions make sense, and your humanity is centered.
What Makes This Space Different
Culturally Responsive Care
Your lived experience is understood without explanation.
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Emotionally Safe Space
No judgment. No fixing. No rushing your process. Healing Without Performance
You don’t have to be strong, polished, or composed here.
The Heart of the Practice
At Black Healing Practice, healing is not about fixing you.
It’s about honoring what you’ve survived and supporting who you’re becoming.
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This work is grounded in clinical care, cultural understanding, and lived experience because healing must account for the systems we live in, not just the symptoms we carry.
Ways To Work Together
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Individual Therapy
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Coaching
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Mentorship
Meet The Therapist
I was born and raised in South Central Los Angeles California a place that shaped my understanding of community, resilience, and the quiet strength people carry every day. Growing up in that environment gave me an early awareness of how systems impact mental health, long before I had the language for it.
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I hold an Associate’s degree in Human Biology, a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology, and a Master’s degree in Counseling. My academic path reflects what continues to guide my work today: a holistic understanding of people. Human biology informs how I understand stress and trauma in the body. Sociology deepened my awareness of systems, power, and identity. Counseling gave me the clinical tools to support healing in practical, meaningful ways.
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I am also a military veteran, having served two enlistments and separated honorably. My time in service strengthened my discipline, leadership, and ability to remain grounded under pressure. It also deepened my understanding of institutional systems, hierarchy, and the emotional weight many people carry silently.
Currently, I am pursuing a PsyD in Applied Clinical Psychology, continuing to expand my clinical training and commitment to evidence-based, trauma-informed care.
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My approach to therapy is holistic, culturally responsive, and collaborative. I understand that mental health does not exist in isolation from culture, race, gender, work environments, or systemic pressure. Healing is not about “fixing” you it is about helping you understand yourself more clearly, regulate your nervous system, strengthen your boundaries, and reconnect with who you are beneath survival mode.
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Clients describe my style as warm, direct, and steady. I create a space where honesty is welcome, complexity is respected, and you do not have to perform to be understood.
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If you are looking for a therapist who brings both lived experience and clinical rigor to the room, I welcome you.
Why I Started Black Healing Practice
I created Black Healing Practice because there are not enough spaces that truly cater to us.
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Black clients do not make up the majority in therapy. And too often, when we do seek support, we are sitting in rooms where we still have to explain our reality before we can even begin to process it.
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I saw that gap clearly.
I saw how often Black women walk into therapy already exhausted from work, from leadership pressure, from being the strong one, from navigating systems that were never designed with them in mind. I saw how Black men and women carry anxiety, depression, trauma, and identity strain while still being expected to function at a high level.
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And I knew there needed to be a space where that did not have to be over-explained.
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This practice was built so you do not have to shrink.
You do not have to translate your experiences into something more palatable.
You do not have to overperform to be taken seriously.
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I believe many of the struggles Black clients bring into therapy are not personal weaknesses. They are intelligent responses to chronic stress, racialized pressure, and systemic realities.
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Healing here is not about fixing you.
It is about helping you come out of survival mode.
It is about helping you feel safer in your body, clearer in your boundaries, and more grounded in who you are.
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I do not minimize racism. I do not ignore power. I do not pretend systems don’t shape mental health.
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At the same time, I believe in building tools. Strengthening emotional regulation. Making decisions that align with your values instead of your fear. Learning how to exist without abandoning yourself.
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Black Healing Practice exists because you deserve a space where you are understood without over-explaining.
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If you’ve been looking for that this is it.
Who We Serve
Black Healing Practice serves Black women and men navigating the emotional, psychological, and identity-based weight of working, leading, and serving in systems not designed with them in mind.
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We specialize in supporting Black women and men in professional, corporate, academic, and military environments who are experiencing the cumulative impact of workplace stress, racialized microaggressions, identity strain, burnout, and chronic pressure to perform, prove, or remain composed.
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Many of the women and men we work with are navigating:
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Microaggressions, bias, and subtle or overt discrimination
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The stress of being “the only” or one of few in their workplace or unit
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Code-switching and identity shifting to feel safe, accepted, or competent
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Leadership roles while protecting their mental health
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Emotional labor, hypervisibility, or invisibility at work
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Burnout, exhaustion, and difficulty resting
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Balancing professional demands with family, relationships, and self-care
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Military service related stress, transitions, institutional trauma, and identity shifts
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Anxiety, depression, racial trauma, and cumulative stress over time
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Difficulty setting boundaries or prioritizing themselves
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Our approach honors both clinical expertise and lived experience. We recognize that these challenges are not personal failures they are systemic realities. Healing must account for culture, context, power, and environment not just symptoms.
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Therapy at Black Healing Practice is a space where your experiences are named, validated, and addressed with care that understands the realities of being a Black woman at work, in leadership, and in service. Here, you do not have to explain or justify your experience.
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In Addition
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Black Healing Practice also serves Black men and women seeking mental health support for concerns not related to work or professional roles. This includes support for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship challenges, identity exploration, life transitions, and emotional healing across the lifespan.
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Regardless of the reason you seek therapy, you deserve care that sees the whole of who you are at work, at home, in your relationships, and within yourself. Healing here is not about becoming more resilient to harm it’s about restoring yourself in environments and systems that demand too much.
Our Services
Coaching
COMING AUGUST 2026
Coaching is future-focused and action-oriented support for those seeking clarity, alignment, and personal or professional growth. This service is ideal for individuals navigating leadership stress, career decisions, boundaries, confidence building, or life transitions.
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Coaching does not address diagnosable mental health conditions, but it offers structured guidance, accountability, and culturally grounded insight to help you move forward with intention.
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Individual Therapy
Individual therapy is a space for Black adults seeking culturally responsive, trauma-informed care for a range of emotional and mental health concerns. This includes anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, life transitions, racial stress, burnout, and identity-related stressors.
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Together, we explore both personal experiences and the broader systems that shape them. This work supports healing from past wounds, navigating present challenges, and building sustainable coping strategies for the future.
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Therapy here is grounded in safety, depth, and cultural understanding without code-switching or minimizing systemic realities.
Mentorship for Upcoming Therapist
Mentorship is available for early-career or aspiring therapists seeking guidance in building and navigating Black-centered clinical work. This space offers support around professional development, ethical considerations, business growth, and understanding the nuances of providing therapy rooted in Black healing.
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This is not clinical supervision and does not fulfill licensure requirements. It is mentorship designed to expand knowledge, confidence, and navigation within the field of Black therapy.
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* Only do this after we have completed the phone consultation. *
Our Approach
Healing is not one-size-fits-all. At Black Healing Practice, care is tailored to the individual while remaining grounded in cultural awareness, trauma-informed principles, and lived experience. Below are the core approaches that guide our work.
Trauma-Informed Care
Many of the symptoms clients bring into therapy are rooted in chronic stress, racialized experiences, workplace harm, or relational trauma. Trauma-informed care recognizes that behaviors often develop as intelligent survival responses.
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Rather than asking “What is wrong with you?” we ask “What happened to you and how did you adapt?”
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This approach prioritizes emotional safety, nervous system regulation, and rebuilding a sense of internal security. Clients learn how trauma impacts the body and mind, and how to move from survival mode toward stability and clarity.
Culturally Responsive Therapy
Therapy cannot be separated from culture, race, or systemic context. Culturally responsive care acknowledges the impact of racism, sexism, power dynamics, and institutional stress on mental health.
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In this space, Black clients are not required to educate their therapist about lived experience. Cultural identity, generational patterns, and racialized stress are integrated into treatment rather than minimized.
This approach ensures that healing honors both individual experiences and collective realities.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT focuses on the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Many clients navigating anxiety, burnout, and depression experience patterns of overthinking, self-criticism, and high internal pressure.
Through CBT, we identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced, grounded perspectives. Clients develop tools to challenge distorted thinking, reduce emotional reactivity, and build healthier coping strategies.
Psychodynamic & Insight-Oriented Work
Some struggles are rooted in early relational experiences, family systems, or long-standing identity patterns. Psychodynamic work explores how past experiences influence present behaviors and emotional responses.
This approach helps clients gain insight into attachment patterns, people-pleasing tendencies, leadership pressure, and identity strain. Greater self-awareness leads to more intentional choices and stronger boundaries.
Strength-Based & Holistic Perspective
Black clients often enter therapy already resilient. Strength-based therapy recognizes and builds upon that resilience rather than focusing solely on deficits.
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We incorporate a holistic lens that considers physical health, spirituality, community, family systems, and generational context. Healing is not limited to symptom reduction it is about restoring balance and self-trust.
Collaborative & Direct Style
Therapy here is warm, honest, and collaborative. Clients are active participants in their healing process. We move at a pace that feels safe, while also gently challenging patterns that no longer serve you.
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The goal is not dependency, but empowerment helping you feel clearer in your boundaries, steadier in your body, and more aligned with your values.
Contact Us
Reaching out can feel vulnerable. You don’t have to have the right words just start where you are.
Use the form below to schedule a consultation or ask any questions about working together. We’ll respond within 1–2 business days.
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This is a space rooted in care, clarity, and respect.
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We look forward to connecting with you.
Black Healing Practice
8605 Santa Monica Blvd
PMB 592260
West Hollywood, California 90069
P: 1 323-286-1084
G:1 909-610-9840
Opening Hours
Mon - Fri
Saturday
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11:00 am – 5:00 pm
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