For the high-achieving Black woman who appears fine —more than fine — while quietly exhausted beneath the surface.
EMDR and trauma-informed therapy designed with your full experience in mind.
“You’ve mastered looking strong. This is a space to finally put that down.”
— Sonja Malcolm, LPC | EMDR THERAPIST
You’ve learned to suppress, perform, and keep going. Rest feels irresponsible. Vulnerability feels dangerous.
The Strong Black Woman script has kept you safe — and kept you from being truly known. You’re tired of playing that role.
Your anxiety isn’t just personality. It’s often the imprint of experiences — personal and collective — that your nervous system is still carrying.
You’ve googled “therapy for Black women” before. You want someone who won’t need you to explain the weight of navigating race, gender, and excellence all at once.
You’re done with surface-level coping strategies. You want to actually heal — not just manage the symptoms of a life lived on high alert.
High-functioning anxiety often doesn’t respond to talk alone — because the anxiety isn’t just in your thoughts. It lives in your body, your nervous system, your history. That’s why our work integrates EMDR with trauma-informed, culturally affirming care.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based therapy that helps your brain reprocess distressing memories and stored trauma, often reaching places that conversation alone cannot. Many clients find it transforms their relationship with anxiety in ways years of traditional therapy didn’t.
The hypervigilance you carry isn’t imagined or irrational — it often has deep roots in navigating racist systems, environments that required you to shrink or perform, and generational experiences your nervous system inherited. We name and work with all of it.
For many high-achieving Black women, burnout isn’t just about doing too much. It’s about the additional labor of code-switching, protecting yourself in predominantly white spaces, and having no room to be “not okay.” We get to the roots, not just the symptoms.
EMDR helps your nervous system complete what it started. Instead of just retelling what happened, we help your brain reprocess it so the past stops driving the present, and you can finally heal.
Strength is real — and it can become a cage. We work to honor your resilience while creating space for you to be fully human: to need, to rest, to fall apart sometimes, to be held. You don’t have to earn softness.
You’re the person everyone leans on and no one thinks to ask how you’re really doing.
You find yourself overthinking decisions, replaying conversations, bracing for things to go wrong.
Your anxiety lives in your body: tight chest, shallow breathing, a jaw that never quite unclenches.
You’ve tried therapy before, but felt like you had to explain too much context — your race, your family, your world — before you could even get to the real issue.
You’ve achieved a lot and still feel like something is missing, or that you’re waiting for the other shoe to drop.
You’re ready to stop managing and start actually healing.
I’m a licensed therapist in New Jersey and I help women who are ready to move past anxiety, fear, and overwhelm to live their lives on their own terms. My clients walk away from therapy with me feeling supported and equipped with the tools that they need to experience confidence, joy and fulfillment.
No more rushing through traffic, searching for parking, or missing hours of work to get to your therapy appointment! I’m offering online therapy to New Jersey residents using HIPAA-compliant video software to make therapy convenient AND confidential. All you need is a comfortable private space, reliable internet, and a smart phone, tablet, laptop or personal computer.
I have a unique ability to connect with women around personal experiences of anxiety, work stress, and relationship issues. It’s time for you to live the life that you’ve always wanted to live.
Schedule your free 15-minute consultation so that we can discuss how I can best support you. I’ll answer your questions and we can both ensure that we’re a good fit.
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