Meet Our Team

Beginning therapy often requires courage — the courage to speak honestly, ask for support, and consider the possibility that things can change. Many people arrive unsure of what to say or worried they may be judged. My first priority is to create a space where you feel emotionally safe, understood, and respected.

Clients often come to therapy while carrying more than they have been able to share elsewhere. Some are navigating the transition into motherhood, others are managing professional or caregiving responsibilities, and many are coping with chronic illness, stress, loss, or relational strain while continuing to function outwardly. Our first conversations are not about solving everything immediately, but about finally having a place where you can speak openly, be listened to carefully, and be met with genuine care.

My approach is collaborative and individualized, grounded in psychological safety and relational understanding. Together, we slow the pace, clarify what you are carrying, and identify practical and sustainable ways forward. Through reflective dialogue and carefully considered strategies, therapy is shaped around your needs, values, and life circumstances.

Meaningful change begins when people feel emotionally safe enough to understand their experiences, respond differently to stress, and reconnect with a more integrated sense of themselves.

Faith-Integrated Therapy

For clients who desire it, I offer therapy that thoughtfully integrates Christian faith and psychological care. Many individuals, couples, and families value a space where emotional struggles can be discussed openly without separating their mental health from their spiritual life.

Our work can include prayer, reflection on beliefs, and exploring how faith shapes meaning, coping, relationships, and healing. You are not expected to have everything figured out — questions, doubts, and struggles are welcome.

Together, we address emotional and relational concerns while staying aligned with your values and supporting your healing, growth, and well-being.

Clinical Experience & Perspective

With over 25 years of clinical experience across community agencies, hospitals, public schools, interdisciplinary healthcare settings, and higher education leadership, I bring both clinical depth and systems-level understanding to my work. These experiences, together with my lived experience as a Black woman, have shaped my belief that emotional distress rarely exists in isolation. Personal struggles are often intertwined with relationships, culture, family histories, faith traditions, and broader social realities and systemic inequities.

Cultural & Africentric Framework

My practice is grounded in an Africentric and culturally responsive clinical framework that understands mental health within relational, historical, and social contexts. Rather than viewing distress only as an individual problem, I consider how identity, family systems, community experiences, and structural conditions shape emotional well-being, relationships, and coping.

I integrate trauma-informed and liberation-oriented approaches that recognize the psychological impact of racism, chronic vigilance, role strain, and intergenerational experiences. Therapy, therefore, moves beyond symptom reduction toward restoration — supporting emotional regulation, relational repair, meaning-making, and a strengthened sense of self.

Many clients experience relief in a space where their cultural realities are understood without explanation and where emotional healing can occur alongside spiritual meaning and personal dignity.

Areas of Focus

Perinatal & Black Maternal Mental Health

A primary focus of my practice is perinatal mental health with a specialization in Black maternal mental health. I support Black mothers, birthing people, and their families during pregnancy and the first two years postpartum as they navigate emotional changes, identity shifts, birth and medical experiences, and the relational and spiritual transitions of motherhood.

Many mothers are functioning outwardly while internally experiencing anxiety, sadness, intrusive thoughts, guilt, or a sense that they are not themselves. These experiences are common and treatable, yet often unspoken. My work provides early, compassionate support so concerns can be addressed before they deepen into crisis.

I recognize that perinatal mental health does not occur in isolation. Experiences with healthcare systems, expectations of strength, caregiving demands, and cultural and spiritual meaning all shape how mothers experience pregnancy and postpartum. Therapy offers a space where these realities are understood without explanation and where healing can occur within relational, cultural, and faith contexts.

Motherhood can be both deeply meaningful and deeply vulnerable. My role is to provide a steady, respectful place where mothers can process their experiences, regain emotional balance, and move into parenting with greater confidence and support.

High-Achieving Professionals, Burnout & Racial Stress

I also work extensively with Black and racialized professionals, academics, leaders, and entrepreneurs who appear highly capable externally but are carrying significant internal strain. Many clients come to therapy functioning well in demanding roles while privately experiencing emotional exhaustion, chronic pressure, workplace conflict, or the psychological toll of navigating institutional environments.

My clinical work draws on years of experience within education, healthcare, and organizational leadership. I understand how role expectations, responsibility, visibility, and racial stress can accumulate over time, affecting confidence, relationships, and well-being. Therapy provides a space to process these experiences without minimizing them or pathologizing them.

Together, we address burnout, identity strain, workplace bullying, racialized experiences, and the difficulty of sustaining caregiving, leadership, and personal life simultaneously. Our work focuses on emotional regulation, boundaries, decision-making, and restoring a sustainable sense of self. The goal is for clients to leave therapy feeling informed, empowered, and equipped with practical tools to function with greater clarity, steadiness, confidence, and overall well-being.

Relationships, Illness & Grief

I have extensive experience supporting individuals, couples, and families facing serious medical illness, chronic health conditions, caregiving strain, end-of-life concerns, and bereavement. Illness often affects not only the body but also identity, relationships, family roles, and emotional stability. Many people find themselves managing fear, anticipatory grief, difficult medical decisions, and changes in independence all at once.

My work includes helping families navigate complex conversations, relational tension, and the emotional realities that arise when health changes or time becomes uncertain. We address caregiver exhaustion, shifting responsibilities, and the need for both practical planning and emotional support. I am comfortable working alongside medical care and supporting clients through hospitalizations, palliative care, and periods of loss.

While conversations about mortality can be painful, they can also create opportunities for meaning-making, reconciliation, preparation, and peace. My role is to provide a steady and compassionate space where individuals and families can speak honestly, process grief, and navigate these transitions with clarity, dignity, and support.

How I Work

My therapeutic approach is integrative and relational. I draw on established evidence-based modalities, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Attachment-Informed Therapy, Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Person-Centred therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and Narrative approaches — while grounding the work in Africentric social work and African/Black psychology, culturally responsive and relational practices, and nervous-system regulation strategies.

Rather than applying one fixed method, therapy is tailored to each person’s needs and context. Together, we explore patterns in thoughts, emotions, relationships, and behaviour, while also paying attention to the body’s stress responses and internal awareness. The goal is not only symptom relief, but greater stability, understanding, and sustainable change.

The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a safe place to process experiences and practice new ways of relating. Therapy is collaborative; your reflection and feedback guide our work, and we move at a pace that feels manageable and respectful.

Training, Writing & Speaking

In addition to private practice, I have spent many years in higher education and professional training. I served as Associate Director of Field Education and faculty member at the School of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University, where I taught and supervised undergraduate and graduate students preparing to become social workers and therapists. I have also provided clinical supervision, training, and consultation to practitioners, school boards, child welfare teams, healthcare providers, and organizational leaders across Canada and internationally on psychological safety, trauma-informed care, anti-Black racism, and equitable mental health practice.

These roles mean that, in addition to supporting clients directly, I have trained and mentored many of the professionals who now provide care in community and institutional settings. My clinical work is therefore informed not only by experience in therapy but also by ongoing engagement with research, teaching, and professional practice standards.

I write and conduct research on Black mothering, racial trauma, grief and loss, and systemic inequities in institutions such as education and child welfare. My work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and academic books, and I have authored multiple scholarly and personal development publications. I also speak and consult nationally and internationally on mental health equity, relational healing, and culturally responsive care.

Clients often find comfort in knowing their therapy is grounded in both practical experience and current knowledge. Across clinical, academic, and community settings, my work is guided by one consistent principle: people heal when they feel emotionally safe, culturally understood, and relationally supported.

Professional Credentials

I am a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW). My preparation for practice included extensive undergraduate and graduate studies in social work, sociology, and psychology, as well as doctoral-level scholarship examining psychological safety in schools, trauma, grief, and systemic anti-Black racism in public education.

My clinical work is shaped not only by formal training but also by years of community practice, teaching, and culturally grounded approaches to healing and resilience in Black communities.

I have also completed advanced clinical training in Africentric couples and family therapy, racial trauma, perinatal mental health, with a particular focus on Black maternal mental health, and palliative and end-of-life care. This preparation enables me to support clients at different life stages and in complex situations with steadiness, care, and clinical competence.

Outside of Clinical Practice

Outside the therapy room, I value creativity and restoration. I enjoy long forest walks, abstract painting, tending to houseplants, and creating welcoming spaces filled with art. I also cherish time spent travelling with family and friends, as well as a joyful car sing-along.