Meet Whitney

Therapist | Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) | Co-Founder, BIPOC Healing Collective

I work with ages 13 and older from all walks of life, creating a space where you don't have to perform, prove your worth, have it all together, or carry everything alone. While I welcome clients with a wide range of experiences, I have a special interest in supporting BIPOC individuals navigating motherhood, perfectionism, ADHD, burnout, performance pressure, and the emotional toll of surviving in systems that were never designed with us in mind.

I'm passionate about working with adolescents who have learned to survive long before they had the chance to simply be kids. Too often, young people are labeled as "difficult," "defiant," or "bad" when they're actually overwhelmed, misunderstood, or doing the best they can with a nervous system shaped by stress, trauma, or instability. Rather than asking, "What's wrong with you?" I believe in asking, "What happened to you?" Together, we'll create space to understand what's beneath the behavior, strengthen emotional regulation, and help you reconnect with your strengths—not just your struggles.

Many of us have learned to measure our worth by what we can produce, provide, or endure. But you are not your job title, your GPA, your paycheck, your productivity, or the role you've learned to play for everyone around you. Beneath the expectations, responsibilities, and survival strategies is a whole person worthy of love, connection, rest, and joy. Therapy is an opportunity to reconnect with that person, the one who has always been there, even if life taught you to hide them.

I've also been deepening my work in men's mental health, specifically with Black men and men of color who are carrying trauma, navigating attachment wounds, healing from sexual abuse, or struggling in relationships. Too often, boys grow into men who know how to survive, provide, and protect—but have never been given permission to truly know themselves. Many of the men I support are unpacking what it means to have been raised on survival rather than love while learning to build lives rooted in safety, vulnerability, trust, and emotional connection.

My approach is grounded in attachment, trauma, and nervous system healing because I believe our earliest experiences shape how we love, trust, protect ourselves, and move through the world. Healing isn't about becoming someone new; it's about understanding how your mind and body learned to survive and creating enough safety to choose something different.