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About My Clients
I was inspired to become a therapist in childhood by a burning desire to bridge the disparities found in less privileged (my) communities. I am interested in working with adolescents and young adults who identify as queer, gender expansive, black, Afro Caribbean, neurodivergent, or disabled. I aim to work with individuals surrounding gender, sexual, disabled, and racial identity exploration while dismantling internalized colonized ideas about these identities.
My Background and Approach
I believe that everyone is doing their best with their current tools and how we work together will be guided by your interests and strengths. I will be using an approach that is supportive, holistic, anti-oppressive, and grounded in Black feminist, multicultural, and queer theories. My goal is to create a genuine, warm, accepting, and trauma-informed environment to help foster safety when exploring your thoughts, emotions, memories, and feelings. As someone that grew up in the Bronx, I understand how difficult it can be for someone like me to ask for help. This perspective has been my driving force in pursuing counseling. I have my Bachelor's in Applied Psychology and a minor in Public Policy from NYU. I am currently studying at Teachers College for my Master's in Mental Health Counseling. At both universities, I have found a lack of anti-oppressive framework being taught which has continued to empower me to create a safe space for individuals to truly be themselves.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Every one of us deserves to feel safe, worthy and heard. I am informed by both my personal and professional experiences. With that, I desire to collaborate with individuals in how they can best feel safe, worthy and heard through an anti-oppressive, abolitionist, and social justice-oriented lens. I commit myself to doing this work and building with you by; paying attention and helping enhance your unique strengths and skills, being compassionate and humorous, engaging with you honestly, and both acknowledging and exploring the systemic structures that shape us. “We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of "Black women" for each other. But we can practice being gentle with ourselves by being gentle with each other. We can practice being gentle with each other by being gentle with that piece of ourselves that is hardest to hold..." - Audre Lorde