Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor

I am a clinician at our Bowie clinic who provides therapy services!

An ideal client does not need to have all their issues identified, but would have insight into some issues or symptoms of interest. An ideal client understands they have – and are expected to have – need and desires, and may need support exploring tools or strategies to tame or work toward fulfilling such. In my experience, ideal clients want the following: to learn to trust themselves (again), actualize, improve interpersonal relationship functioning, to change negative patterns of thinking and maladaptive behaviors, to improve emotion regulation skills, to improve their mood and overall functioning, reduce substance use, and to understand “why.”

Using approaches in CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy, I help clients by creating an empathetic and consistent clinical environment, tailoring strategies to clients’ capacities, collaborating to identify – and make progress toward – goals, and supporting clients as they build skills to better navigate challenges, and enhance quality of life.

As a first generation, Caribbean American, Black woman living in the U.S., I understand that feeling of “taring” aspects of the self to function at basic levels. Navigating such intersections, may feel like we sometimes peel back layers, put them on a scale, and fail to consider the weight of these aspects in our wellness. I reject that, and I ensure that all aspects of the self are carefully considered when working with clients.