Racial Identity

Race, culture, and ethnicity are multilayered and intertwined identities that impact us in numerous and diverse ways. I hold space for these layers to emerge, and honor their influence both in your present and in your past.

Exploring topics of racial, cultural, and ethnic background as it relates to one’s family origins and personal identity.

As a multiracial/mixed person, I have several years of experience learning about mixed race identities and racial identity development. In addition to my own lived experience, I draw on academic research, films, novels, personal accounts and more in my approach to this topic.

As a Black therapist, I will give you the space to process your identity and racial trauma, as well as, any challenges that come with navigating a white supremacy society.

My lived experience as a biracial Black women and racial equity consultant inform how I understand race-based bodily supremacy and systems that uphold it. I can help clients process and understand the gifts and wounding they've experienced due to their racial identity.

There are many individuals who are facing multiple forms of violence through relationships with toxic systems. In my work, I stress that real love does not require one to give up their freedom for the sake of belonging. It’s in the power of our ability to use our voice and to think and feel for ourselves that we find the power to stand alone and stand with others. The ability to do both is what real freedom and real love requires. You deserve to be free and to feel love.

As a black man in America i first hand understand and have the lived experience of what it is like being black in this country. As a first generation African American, i also have the lived experience of being raised in two different cultures and navigating the different cultural dynamics.

Exploring topics of racial, cultural, and ethnic background as it relates to one’s family origins and personal identity.

I have appreciated helping clients to re-discover their racial identity, understand the systemic nature of racism (and how this can affect families of color), and cope with racialized trauma.

Race, culture, and ethnicity are multilayered and intertwined identities that impact us in numerous and diverse ways. I hold space for these layers to emerge, and honor their influence both in your present and in the past.

Through my own journey and working with others I know the challenges facing those with mixed or complex identities. So many people can't know how the world, even family, is going to treat them at any given moment and it's exhausting. Some of us are fluent in two or more cultures that don't feel compatible. Also exhausting. Increasing your own inner resources will help you find you relief in a world that wants labels on everyone.

I use a mixture of lived experience and clinical knowledge to support my clients in exploring and feeling empowered within their racial identities.

I am a mixed raced/Black person. Living in this body has come with lots of experiences connected to race. Unfortunately, I have experienced more than my fair share of racism in my life. However, I also have a White mother and have experienced some light-skinned privilege. In short, I am no stranger to exploring and processing racialized experiences. I am excited to work with people seeking to express and step into their full selves and welcome client of all racial backgrounds.

As a multiracial person myself, I understand the complexity of race and culture and it impacts our sense of identity, self and belonging. In order to develop a positive sense of self, it is imperative that we be allowed to explore and connect to these aspects of ourselves. It is my passion and pleasure to be able to provide this space to my clients of all backgrounds and experiences, and especially to those who are trans or interracially adopted or those from multiracial homes.

My lived experience as a biracial Black women and racial equity consultant inform how I understand race-based bodily supremacy and systems that uphold it. I can help clients process and understand the gifts and wounding they've experienced due to their racial identity.

Much of my graduate level research and training has been in understanding the complex racial identity development of people of color and White individuals. My dissertation research included examining how Black clients responded to White therapists who overtly broach cross-racial differences in the therapy session.

As a person of color, the world may not understand the things that we go through or how it impacts us. Do you feel misunderstood, ridiculed, unwanted or out of place? External pressures sometimes feel unbearable - as though you aren’t allowed to exist in the way you would like. You deserve a place. Through a culturally sensitive lens, I will meet you where you are and bring strength to our therapy as you grow in confidence and self-acceptance.