Raquel Martin, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist that holds her PhD in Medical and Clinical Psychology.  Dr. Martin completed her internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute.  Dr. Martin has published research regarding mental health disparities and health equity.  Her research and clinical interests include child and adolescent mental health, trauma, and minority health disparities.  Dr. Martin is currently the Clinical Director at a residential treatment center for children and adolescents that have experienced traumatic events. She has experience conducting individual, family, and group therapy with a focus on racially based stressors, trauma informed care, and racial identity development. Dr. Martin is also an Adjunct Professor at Fisk University and Iglobal University.

https://www.raquelmartinphd.com/

“Dr. Emily Hu is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles who specializes in treating trauma and addictions. Her work encompasses themes of resilience, strength, social support, and finding and unapologetically living one’s genuine true self. She is especially passionate about working with BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folx.”

https://mythrivepsychology.com/dr-emily-hu

“Dr. Emily Hu is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles who specializes in treating trauma and addictions. Her work encompasses themes of resilience, strength, social support, and finding and unapologetically living one’s genuine true self. She is especially passionate about working with BIPOC and LGBTQ+ folx.”

https://mythrivepsychology.com/dr-emily-hu

Nicola Pierre-Smith, LPC is of Jamaican descent and is a licensed Therapist in Philadelphia. Her therapy work focuses primarily on anti-oppressive therapy for trauma healing, anxiety, and depression. She creates online content and has been featured in Bustle as a Black Therapist to follow on Instagram, as well as in Yahoo Life, VICE, Forge Mag, and the Huffington Post Black Voices podcast. She also provides mental health workshops for Employee Resource Groups.”

https://melanatedwomenshealth.com/

Dr. Christina Hong Huber is a first-generation, Asian-American, licensed clinical psychologist in the Washington, D.C. metro area. She has extensive experience working with individuals with anxiety, depression, trauma, interpersonal difficulties, multicultural challenges, and adjustment and life transition issues. She works with older adolescents, adults, and couples from a variety of cultural backgrounds, particularly from marginalized communities, and utilizes an integrative therapeutic approach. Dr. Hong Huber works from a social justice-oriented and trauma-informed lens and provides culturally affirming and responsive therapy. She is passionate about understanding, supporting, and challenging aspects that make it difficult for clients, especially clients of color, to live their best lives according to their values. Through a trauma and culturally informed lens, she helps clients build hope and a better sense of self through acceptance, compassion, and empowerment. She also is board certified in biofeedback (BCB), an evidence-based treatment that can complement traditional psychotherapy.

Dr. Elizabeth Rodriguez is a licensed psychologist in New York and New Jersey who specializes in the evaluation and treatment of individuals with mental illnesses who are incarcerated or involved in the criminal justice system. Dr. Rodriguez received her B.A. from New Mexico State University and her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She has worked in inpatient hospitals, forensic hospitals, outpatient mental health clinics, and a forensic evaluation clinic. She currently serves as the Director of Psychological Assessment in a correctional facility. In addition, she maintains a private practice, Clinical and Forensic Psychological Assessments, LLC, where she provides expert evaluations of clients who are facing criminal charges or are in immigration proceedings. Her specialties include evaluation of competence to stand trial, diagnostic clarifications, and psychological testing.

Dr. Darby earned a doctorate of philosophy in Counseling and Human Development Services from Kent State University.  She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with Supervisor Designation, a Licensed School Counselor in the State of Ohio as well as Licensed Clinical Counselor in the states of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. 

Throughout her over 19 years of community mental health work, Dr. Darby has worked in a variety of settings including, partial-hospitalization, residential, college counseling, outpatient, school and community based.  She has worked mostly with diverse youth who display behavior concerns and their families.  She currently is an Associate Professor and the Director of Ph.D. Field Experiences in the department of Counseling at the University of the Cumberlands.  Her research interests are culturally responsive counseling/supervision practices and telehealth.  Dr. Darby also has an online private practice where she provides counseling services to adults and couples.

Link: https://darbycc.org/

Sonia Ross, LCSW-C, is the CEO & Founder of Full Circle Therapy Services LLC – a holistic therapeutic practice focused on the unique emotional needs of Black women.

In her work she focuses on helping Black women heal and rebuild their relationship with their bodies which has been disrupted due to centuries of trauma and oppression. She helps to support and guide women in noticing how the patterns of trauma, oppression and anti-blackness show up in their relationship with bodies and mind. Ms. Ross supports women in healing from depression, anxiety and other emotional wounds that are often symptoms of intergenerational trauma and internalized oppression. This reconnection can be very eye-opening for the women she serves leading to a more holistic, loving and compassionate relationship with themselves as Black women.

Ms. Ross was inspired to pursue this work because of the unique emotional health needs of Black women that are often ignored by society. She understands these needs personally, due to her own recovery process as a childhood trauma and sexual assault survivor and the impact this had on her life for many years after wards.

It is Ms. Ross’ passion and purpose in life to help other women heal their own lives so they can build a loving and compassion relationship with their bodies as an antidote to the daily white supremacy and anti-blackness we experience as Black women. She is the author of Master Your Depression: A Black Woman’s Guide to Emotional Wellness which is an extension of her work in this area. Ms. Ross can be followed on Instagram @fullcircletherapyservices.

Sonia Ross, LCSW-C, is the CEO & Founder of Full Circle Therapy Services LLC – a holistic therapeutic practice focused on the unique emotional needs of Black women. She is the author of Master Your Depression: A Black Woman’s Guide to Emotional Wellness which is an extension of her work in this area. Ms. Ross can be followed on Instagram @fullcircletherapyservices.

Link: https://www.fullcircletherapyservices.com/

I practice as a psychotherapist (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) in a private practice & telehealth setting. I am a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) through the International Association of Trauma Professionals. I also specialize in Sex Therapy!

I primarily focus on those with issues connected to trauma and trauma-related disorders and individuals who want to live a healthy, robust, and mind-blowing sex life!

As a clinician, I am an advocate and skilled provider of eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), hypnosis, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and rationale-emotive behavioral therapy (RBT).

Link: https://thestraightforwardtherapist.com/

Kathlyn “Chelsea” Davis is a Licensed Marriage and family therapist in Orlando, FL. Chelsea received her Masters in Marriage and Family therapy at The University of Central Florida and now currently works in private practice as the owner of Revive Coalition. In Chelsea’s early experience she worked as relationship/sexual health and risk reduction counselor in which she was given the opportunity to explore diverse issues in mental health across various populations. Through this experience Chelsea was able to recognize that access to affordable and culturally inclusive mental health resources were not equally available amongst diverse communities. As a result, Chelsea believes in creating a safe and open environment with her clients by exploring the intersectionality of one’s various identities and mental health. Chelsea’s experience focuses on anxiety, depression, relational/familial discord, trauma, LGBTQ+ and racial/cultural specific issues. Through the use of cognitive-behavioral, family systems and trauma informed theoretical approaches, Chelsea has been able to help her clients achieve healing. Chelsea is currently seeing clients virtually. 

Link: https://www.revivecoalition.com/

Nicole Osborne is a licensed clinical mental health counselor associate and owner of Milk & Honey Therapy located in Greensboro, NC. She specializes in working with teens and young adults from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Nicole uses her compassionate, fun loving and easy-going nature to help her clients overcome anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, anger issues, academic/career concerns and identity development issues. She loves using holistic and creative therapy approaches such as Walk & Talk Therapy, somatic (body based) therapy, art, music, and mindfulness.

Nicole has over 10 years of combined experience serving as a coach, tutor, mentor, teacher and counselor to children, teens and adults from diverse backgrounds. A number of Nicole’s experiences include working with people from low-income communities and communities of color, which has fueled her passion for various social justice issues. Due her work in these communities, Nicole and her husband Nick (who is a licensed clinical social worker) decided to take a social justice approach to building their therapy practice. They made it their mission to reach people from all cultural backgrounds and make therapy more accessible. They’re proud to offer a large number of reduced rate sessions to help reduce financial barriers that prevent many people, especially BIPOC, from receiving mental health services.
In her free time, Nicole enjoys hanging out with her husband, going on nature walks, working out, traveling, trying new restaurants and learning Spanish.

On Nicole’s practice website, you can find a free resource guide called the “5-Step Guide On How to Feel Your Feelings” to help you learn how to process, feel and cope with a variety of emotions. To find out more information about Nicole and her practice, you can visit her website at milkandhoneytherapy.com.

Links: Milk & Honey Therapy (milkandhoneytherapy.com)

Dr. Kristie Norwood is a licensed Clinical Psychologist who currently serves as the Director of the Student Counseling Center at Hampton University. Dr. Norwood earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from James Madison University and later completed both her Master of Science in Counseling and Doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at The University of Memphis. Prior to joining Hampton University, Dr. Norwood worked as the Assistant Chief of Psychology at the Hampton Veteran Affairs Medical Center.  During that time, she served as the coordinator of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder clinical team, spearheaded efforts for the opening of the Women’s Mental Health Clinic, and served as the Director of the Postdoctoral Training program.

Dr. Norwood joined Hampton University in August 2019 and has focused efforts on enhancing mental health services to college students.  Given her background working with military Veterans and now college students, Dr. Norwood’s clinical expertise is rooted in providing evidence based psychotherapy to trauma survivors and those dealing with life transitions.  In addition to her role with the Student Counseling Center, Dr. Norwood also serves as a Part Time Faculty Member in the Department of Psychology. 

Most recently, Dr. Norwood started ReMIND U, LLC which serves to promote the importance of Remembering to Keep Mental Health in Discussions.  Through ReMIND U, Dr. Norwood provides therapy services, mental wellness workshops, speaking engagements, and the ReMIND U podcast.  Her ultimate goal is to help normalize mental health care in communities of color through healthy discussions that provide education and awareness.

Dr. Norwood’s work is embodied by: “you may not be responsible for being down…but you are responsible for getting up.”  She believes that her calling is to help decrease the stigma of mental health and to promote a culture in which marginalized communities can maintain emotional wellness. 

Link: https://www.remind-u.com/

My name is Vanessa Charles and I have my Masters in Mental Health Counseling from Nova Southeastern University. I am a licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida. I have experience working with individuals with a wide range of concerns including depression, anxiety, PSTD, relationship issues, self-esteem, career counseling, infertility issues, pregnancy loss, baby loss, birth trauma and postpartum depression. I have a specialty in working with the postpartum population and I am a certified provider with Postpartum Support International. In my spare time, I like to host speed dating events and provide relationship counseling. I enjoy making love connections and helping individuals work on self-love. My therapeutic style involves helping individuals gain insight to roadblocks and assisting individuals gain tools to begin making positive changes in their lives. I combine different therapeutic techniques to tailor my client’s needs and my biggest strength is my dedication to meeting my client’s personal goals.

Links:

Website: https://www.circleofwellnesstherapy.com/

Dr. LaTasha Russell is an internationally-recognized Mental Health Clinician, Author, and Speaker. A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, she received a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology after graduating from Spelman College with a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Pre-medicine. Today, she is a Relationship Coach for professional athletes and their significant others. Dr. Tasha is also the President of The Association of Black Psychologists, South Florida Chapter. Dr. Tasha has worked in a variety of mental health settings and has proven herself to work effectively with marginalized individuals including sex workers, pastors, and police officers. She has provided therapeutic sessions in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Virginia, Washington D.C., Singapore, Japan, and in South Florida where she now resides.

Dr. Tasha is the co-author of “It Ain’t the Dishes,” a highly-acclaimed, must-read book for anyone experiencing relationship challenges. Dr. Tasha also hosts a Live Talk Show every 1st Thursday at Krave Restaurant and Lounge in Sunrise, Florida. It is the only talk show where the guests are selected right from the audience. Dr. Tasha has made numerous appearances on notable shows including Hot Talk with Jill Tracey on Miami’s Hot 105 FM and CBS4 Miami. She also previously starred in a live AM radio show on WAVS 1170. In 2018, Dr. Tasha was recognized by the Miami Herald as one of the Top 40 Leaders under 40.  With her sharp-shooting style and voice of accountability, Dr. Tasha has helped to dispel the myths of talking to a professional about what goes on behind closed doors. Dr. Tasha refers to her unique ability to get to the core of an issue quickly as, “Drive-By Therapy.” To learn more about Dr. Tasha, go to drivebytherapy.org or connect with her on social media @doctoratasha.

Dr. Sharon Grossman coaches women in medicine all over the world who are struggling with anxiety, overwhelm, and burnout. She works with them to stay calm, even in situations that are seemingly scary, to effectively manage the demands on their time, and quickly bounce back from adversity.

Dr. Grossman is also the author of the upcoming book The 7E Solution to Burnout which draws on two decades of experience as a psychologist and serves as a guide for high achievers to explore their inner journey to feeling empowered.  

As an international speaker, Dr. Sharon has a unique gift for connecting with her audiences and ensuring they walk away with insights and strategies focused on becoming stress hardy so they can be efficient and effective at work. 

Dr. Elizabeth Rodriguez is a licensed psychologist in New York and New Jersey who specializes in the evaluation and treatment of individuals with mental illnesses who are incarcerated or involved in the criminal justice system. Dr. Rodriguez received her B.A. from New Mexico State University and her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She has worked in inpatient hospitals, forensic hospitals, outpatient mental health clinics, and a forensic evaluation clinic. She currently serves as the Director of Psychological Assessment in a correctional facility. In addition, she maintains a private practice, Clinical and Forensic Psychological Assessments, LLC, where she provides expert evaluations of clients who are facing criminal charges or are in immigration proceedings. Her specialties include evaluation of competence to stand trial, diagnostic clarifications, and psychological testing.

Lori Butts, JD, PhD is the CEO of the Clinical & Forensic Institute (CFI) with offices in South Florida. Dr. Butts currently serves on the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives on behalf of the Florida Psychological Association. Dr. Butts was a member of the Committee on Legal Issues (COLI) from 2011 through 2013. After her COLI service was completed, Dr. Butts was the President-Elect, President, and Past-President of the Florida Psychological Association (FPA) from 2014 through 2016. She had previously served as the President of the Forensic Division of FPA and as the Co-Chair of Legislative Affairs and Public Policy Board. She has been recognized as a Distinguished Psychologist for her dedication and service to the profession of psychology by FPA. In 2016, she was recognized as the “Mental Health Professional of the Year” by the Broward County Crime Commission. Dr. Butts serves on the Board of the Non-Profit organization, Different Brains and also co-hosts a podcast called, Spectrumly Speaking, which is produced by Different Brains. Different Brains strives to encourage understanding & acceptance of individuals who have variations in brain function and social behaviors known as neurodiversity.

After graduating from Clemson University with Honors, Dr. Butts received her law and doctoral psychology degrees from the innovative jointly sponsored program by Villanova School of Law and MCP Hahnemann University Department of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Butts completed her internship in clinical and forensic psychology at New York University School of Medicine, Bellevue Hospital, and Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, She fulfilled her residency requirements at CFI where she was trained by Dr. John A. Spencer. Dr. Butts is licensed to practice psychology in Colorado and Florida and is a member of the Florida Bar.