When I think of embarking on a path towards healing and wholeness, I think of how incredibly daunting and profound of an experience that can be.
Thank you for considering me as a healing companion in your journey.
As a Black woman, I believe that our healing is rooted in liberation and restoration. I specialize in restoration-centered therapy for Black women navigating over-functioning, burnout, perfectionism, hyper-independence, and chronic responsibility and disconnection.
You may be tired of always being the strong one; the person everyone depends on, who carries the mental load, keeps going, feels guilt for resting and rarely feels permission to need. You may be successful and capable, yet exhausted, resentful, disconnected, or unsure of what you need. At Ashé Mental Health and Wellness Space, we examine the survival patterns, relationships, cultural messages, and systems that taught you to over-function. Therapy becomes a space to put some things down, reconnect with yourself, and reclaim a life rooted in self-trust, rest, authenticity, and restoration.
Through African-centered, liberation, feminist, narrative, and relational lenses, we'll explore not only what you're experiencing, but what shaped it and what you want to restore.
You deserve a space where you don't have to perform strength. Here, you have permission to need, receive, rest, soften, change your mind, disappoint others, and be fully human. You don't have to know exactly what you need. If you're ready to understand what you've been carrying and imagine life with less of it, I invite you to reach out.
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My Philosophy
I have a strange relationship with the words “expert” or “healer”. Yes, the therapeutic process is healing in it’s most successful implementation and professional education/experience is most definitely required for me to sit in this virtual seat across from you, but YOU are the expert and driver in your life.
Restoration cannot be done to or for another person. You remain the primary agent of your healing. As a clinician, I serve as companion, witness, facilitator, and guide, creating conditions that support reflection, reconnection, capacity, and restoration.
My approach to psychotherapy is explorative and collaborative; you know yourself best so you supply the map, and we navigate the path to healing together. For that reason, I consider myself a healing companion.
My job is to help you: reduce distress and pain caused by unpleasant emotions and distressing symptoms, increase curiosity and self awareness into your behavior, systems impacting you, develop psychological fortitude and adapt to life circumstances all in order to live a happy healthy and fulfilled life.
In some cases, complete symptom reduction may not be the goal. The goal may simply be to manage symptomatology and adapt around the uncontrollable.
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My clinical lens:
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African-Centered Psychology
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Examining relationship to community, collective identity, ancestry, purpose, spirit and meaning.
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Liberation Psychology
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Looking at systems rather than solely individuals.
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Feminist Therapy
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Understanding gendered socialization.
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Narrative Therapy
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Examining stories and identities.
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Relational Therapy
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Understanding patterns learned through relationships.
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Treatment Areas
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Chronic Exhaustion and Dissatisfaction
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Burnout
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Phase of Life Challenges
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Racial Trauma and Stress
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Stress Management
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Self-Esteem and Self-Doubt Challenges
client demographics
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Black women
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Emerging Adults (18-25)
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Adults (25-50)