I am most known for my work within the eating disorders field. My introduction to eating disorders and disordered eating came from my own lived experience growing up with disordered eating patterns that were normalized in my racialized community. At the time I did not have language for what was happening until graduate school when I felt a resonance and pull towards the eating disorder specialty. Listening to my inner voice aka my intuition sent me down the path towards getting my academic degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a speciality in College Counseling and a focus in Eating Disorders. While in graduate school I had the opportunity to intern in a college counseling center where I facilitated eating disorder and body image groups, and worked with folks 1:1 around eating disorder concerns. I graduated in 2018, and gained a unique and rich experience of working in an integrative college counseling center. I operated in the role of the Senior Staff Psychotherapist and led groups focused on eating disorders, art therapy, and intimate relationships focused on attachment theory and childhood trauma. During this time I coordinated the groups and workshops program for the university counseling center. In 2020, I left college counseling to pursue work in private practice where I had more agency around working with more Black, Brown, Indigenous and People of the Global Majority (BBIPGM) around eating disorders in combination with race-based trauma and healing. In all of my work I have supported thousands of clients who have shared that our work together was the first time they were able to come into a deeper relationship with their bodies and heal their relationship to food. I have partnered with business organizations and offered teaching, training, workshops, and virtual public speaking events to raise awareness and offer education about eating disorders in BBIPGM communities worldwide. I have been a keynote speaker in conferences like “The Future Is Embodied” in Australia to discuss eating disorders in Black communities. My work has been featured in many podcasts such as Embodiment For The Rest of Us and When We Speak, and featured in publications such as Forbes, Bustle, Target, BlackGirlNerds and others. I am currently co-leading a virtual eating disorder support group for Black folks internationally. In 2020, my colleague Jessica Wilson and I  co-founded the global movement AmplifyMelantedVoices focused on recentering the narratives and expertise of BBIPGM in the eating disorders field. I began supervising and consulting with fellow healthcare professionals 1:1, and have an amazing relationship with my clients, and colleagues and have supported them in growing in their career and business endeavors related to the eating disorders, somatic healing, embodiment, and holistic liberation.

Preferred Healing Modalities: Trauma Focused, Somatic Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Mindfulness, Emotionally Focused Therapy, Anti-Oppression, Non-Western modalities such as Black feminism, Ancestral Healing, Decolonial Therapy, Rest & Play, Indigenous African Wisdom and Spiritual Traditions, Akashic Records, Feminine Embodiment,  Esoteric, Dream Interpretation, Astrology, Numerology, Oracle Readings, Qigong, Chakra system, Yoga, Plant Medicine. 

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