Black and African American Therapists in Hedgesville, WV
My therapy practice is trauma informed, person centered, and affirming of the LGBTQ community. I work with general mental health experiences, including mood, stress, and anxiety. I identify as Genderqueer and Bi-Racial. I enjoy working with folks from different ethnicities and races, as well as those who are exploring their gender and sexuality. I graduated from Shepherd University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and a minor in Environmental Studies. I went on to obtain Masters of Social Work from West Virginia University.
My therapy practice is trauma informed, person centered, and affirming of the LGBTQ community. I work with general mental health experiences, including mood, stress, and anxiety. I identify as Genderqueer and Bi-Racial. I enjoy working with folks from different ethnicities and races, as well as those who are exploring their gender and sexuality. I graduated from Shepherd University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and a minor in Environmental Studies. I went on to obtain Masters of Social Work from West Virginia University.
My approach in counseling is somewhat holistic and eclectic. I believe a supportive counseling environment works to help a client achieve awareness, thus leading to healing and personal growth.
My role is to help clients explore their emotional needs and provide feedback. Hopefully, the value will be realized in both behavioral and emotional changes. Under all circumstances, my mission is to treat the client with the utmost regard and honor the human condition as it is.
Counseling hours are available most days at your convenience. Often clients are able to schedule an appointment with 24 hours of calling my office.
My approach in counseling is somewhat holistic and eclectic. I believe a supportive counseling environment works to help a client achieve awareness, thus leading to healing and personal growth.
My role is to help clients explore their emotional needs and provide feedback. Hopefully, the value will be realized in both behavioral and emotional changes. Under all circumstances, my mission is to treat the client with the utmost regard and honor the human condition as it is.
Counseling hours are available most days at your convenience. Often clients are able to schedule an appointment with 24 hours of calling my office.
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Are you a woman reclaiming life after breast cancer, or a man grappling with caregiving, diagnosis, or hidden trauma no one talks about? I get it—I’ve walked that path. As a breast-cancer thriver and licensed clinical social worker with 20+ years’ experience, I specialize in mapping the emotional fallout of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery so you don’t just survive—you thrive. Let’s face the raw stuff (body image, recurrence anxiety, identity shifts, grief and loss) with evidence-based tools, a little honest humor, and real hope. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation and we’ll decide if we’re the right fit.
Are you a woman reclaiming life after breast cancer, or a man grappling with caregiving, diagnosis, or hidden trauma no one talks about? I get it—I’ve walked that path. As a breast-cancer thriver and licensed clinical social worker with 20+ years’ experience, I specialize in mapping the emotional fallout of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery so you don’t just survive—you thrive. Let’s face the raw stuff (body image, recurrence anxiety, identity shifts, grief and loss) with evidence-based tools, a little honest humor, and real hope. Schedule a free 15-minute consultation and we’ll decide if we’re the right fit.
Greetings! I am a certified licensed clinical social worker based in Maryland who have been practicing for 25+ years in various settings. I received my Masters of Social Work from University of Maryland at Baltimore. I have experience working with families, groups, and individuals within a forensic setting, hospital setting, ambulatory setting, practice setting, residential treatment setting, and home setting. I love nature, my family/friends, my doggies, my fish, and all natures' creatures including spiders which I am afraid of.
Greetings! I am a certified licensed clinical social worker based in Maryland who have been practicing for 25+ years in various settings. I received my Masters of Social Work from University of Maryland at Baltimore. I have experience working with families, groups, and individuals within a forensic setting, hospital setting, ambulatory setting, practice setting, residential treatment setting, and home setting. I love nature, my family/friends, my doggies, my fish, and all natures' creatures including spiders which I am afraid of.
I specialize in working with those who may feel overlooked or invisible—whether it's trauma, anxiety, depression, or life transitions that leave you feeling disconnected. My goal is to help you find your voice, your power, and your peace.
I specialize in working with those who may feel overlooked or invisible—whether it's trauma, anxiety, depression, or life transitions that leave you feeling disconnected. My goal is to help you find your voice, your power, and your peace.
Life brings challenges, and everyday stressors can disrupt our sense of balance. Sometimes fear keeps us from pursuing our goals, or anxiety makes even simple tasks feel overwhelming. Talking with someone about these experiences can open the door to strategies that ease stress and help you move forward with confidence.
Over the course of my career, I’ve developed a wide range of tools to support individuals and families. My aim is for every session to leave you with at least five practical techniques—simple, discreet strategies you can use anytime, anywhere—for both immediate relief and lasting resilience.
Life brings challenges, and everyday stressors can disrupt our sense of balance. Sometimes fear keeps us from pursuing our goals, or anxiety makes even simple tasks feel overwhelming. Talking with someone about these experiences can open the door to strategies that ease stress and help you move forward with confidence.
Over the course of my career, I’ve developed a wide range of tools to support individuals and families. My aim is for every session to leave you with at least five practical techniques—simple, discreet strategies you can use anytime, anywhere—for both immediate relief and lasting resilience.
Hi, I’m Kierra, a Licensed Professional Counselor in West Virginia and Virginia
I provide virtual therapy for women navigating trauma, anxiety, neurodivergence, burnout, and identity exploration.
I specialize in working with individuals who:
- Have experienced trauma or abuse
- Feel emotionally overwhelmed or disconnected from themselves
- Mask their true feelings or identity to fit in
- Struggle with chronic self-doubt from being misunderstood
- Identify as neurodivergent or “neuro-spicy” in a neurotypical world
- Wants to rebuild intimacy, trust, and emotional safety in relationships after past harm
Hi, I’m Kierra, a Licensed Professional Counselor in West Virginia and Virginia
I provide virtual therapy for women navigating trauma, anxiety, neurodivergence, burnout, and identity exploration.
I specialize in working with individuals who:
- Have experienced trauma or abuse
- Feel emotionally overwhelmed or disconnected from themselves
- Mask their true feelings or identity to fit in
- Struggle with chronic self-doubt from being misunderstood
- Identify as neurodivergent or “neuro-spicy” in a neurotypical world
- Wants to rebuild intimacy, trust, and emotional safety in relationships after past harm
As an LPC, I am trained to know how to build a therapeutic relationship for talk therapy to benefit your treatment.
As an LPC, I am trained to know how to build a therapeutic relationship for talk therapy to benefit your treatment.
I am Theresa Thomas, a licensed professional therapist. I have worked with individuals, couples, and families seeking counseling for over 10 years, both online and in my private practice treating clients dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting issues, depression, and coping with life changes. Taking the first step to sign up for therapy can take courage and I am proud of you for getting started! I treat clients dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
I am Theresa Thomas, a licensed professional therapist. I have worked with individuals, couples, and families seeking counseling for over 10 years, both online and in my private practice treating clients dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting issues, depression, and coping with life changes. Taking the first step to sign up for therapy can take courage and I am proud of you for getting started! I treat clients dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar disorder, and borderline personality disorder.
Hi, my name is Erika Rucker, and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Nurse. I have been a clinical therapist for over 10 years and use a holistic approach that heals the mind, body, and spirit. I focus on anxiety, depression, trauma, couples counseling, life transitions, women's health, adolescent and young adults who are struggling with the stresses of school and coming into their own uniqueness. I utilize an eclectic style of techniques as I believe that each person needs something special and unique in their healing process.
Hi, my name is Erika Rucker, and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Nurse. I have been a clinical therapist for over 10 years and use a holistic approach that heals the mind, body, and spirit. I focus on anxiety, depression, trauma, couples counseling, life transitions, women's health, adolescent and young adults who are struggling with the stresses of school and coming into their own uniqueness. I utilize an eclectic style of techniques as I believe that each person needs something special and unique in their healing process.
I help individuals on the breast cancer journey heal from the emotional trauma of this diagnosis so they can have better health outcomes. As a breast cancer thriver, my approach to providing services is deeply informed by my personal experience and 20 years of professional practice and training. I understand the devastation, disappointment, and struggle with the negative thoughts and emotions that accompany this diagnosis, including those that can challenge your faith. But I also understand and know the path to recovery, hope, resilience, and victory.
I help individuals on the breast cancer journey heal from the emotional trauma of this diagnosis so they can have better health outcomes. As a breast cancer thriver, my approach to providing services is deeply informed by my personal experience and 20 years of professional practice and training. I understand the devastation, disappointment, and struggle with the negative thoughts and emotions that accompany this diagnosis, including those that can challenge your faith. But I also understand and know the path to recovery, hope, resilience, and victory.
As a generalist, I have experience working with many different people who seek help for a multitude of difficulties. I am an eclectic therapist with a rich grounding in psychological theory and decades of experience of practice. I use my theory of mind with practical skills, which helps me tailor my approach to meet the unique needs of all my patients.
As a generalist, I have experience working with many different people who seek help for a multitude of difficulties. I am an eclectic therapist with a rich grounding in psychological theory and decades of experience of practice. I use my theory of mind with practical skills, which helps me tailor my approach to meet the unique needs of all my patients.
As a therapist, my primary goal is to provide a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship to assist you in meeting your goals. Whether you are seeking therapy to heal past wounds or address current issues, my approach is a collaborative one, building upon your personal strengths and resilience. I provide individual, family, and/or couples therapy to address a variety of mental health symptoms, behavioral disorders, and relationship problems.
As a therapist, my primary goal is to provide a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship to assist you in meeting your goals. Whether you are seeking therapy to heal past wounds or address current issues, my approach is a collaborative one, building upon your personal strengths and resilience. I provide individual, family, and/or couples therapy to address a variety of mental health symptoms, behavioral disorders, and relationship problems.
“Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path." This sentence encapsulates the feelings many clients bring to therapy, the culmination of years of existential angst, an accumulation of guilt, anxiety, loss, among a myriad of other experiences which have inflicted pain and suffering. My experience working with clients in exploring their unique symptoms, be it depression, anxiety, etc., is to not rush headlong into an immediate remedy of the symptoms, rather the exploration of how these symptoms may be trying to inform in new ways of approaching life.
“Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path." This sentence encapsulates the feelings many clients bring to therapy, the culmination of years of existential angst, an accumulation of guilt, anxiety, loss, among a myriad of other experiences which have inflicted pain and suffering. My experience working with clients in exploring their unique symptoms, be it depression, anxiety, etc., is to not rush headlong into an immediate remedy of the symptoms, rather the exploration of how these symptoms may be trying to inform in new ways of approaching life.
Looking for support, evidence based treatment, and/or self-explored resolutions for challenges that you’re experiencing? It is an honor of mine to be a guide on this journey with you. My therapeutic approach is based in empowerment and evidence based approaches that are personally curated to each person I have the pleasure of working with.
Looking for support, evidence based treatment, and/or self-explored resolutions for challenges that you’re experiencing? It is an honor of mine to be a guide on this journey with you. My therapeutic approach is based in empowerment and evidence based approaches that are personally curated to each person I have the pleasure of working with.
Melba Natasha Sanchez-Dixon
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LIMHP, LICSW
3 Endorsed
Online Only
Natasha is a community based therapist providing services to those seeking to improve their relationships with others, change or eliminate troubling behaviors and habits, improve their control over mood and anxiety, perform better at school or work, adjust to difficult life events/transitions, and those who simply wish to gain insight into their personal past in order to welcome a bright and more honest future. Natasha's orientation to counseling is relationship based (collaborative), flexible, respectful and confidential.
Natasha is a community based therapist providing services to those seeking to improve their relationships with others, change or eliminate troubling behaviors and habits, improve their control over mood and anxiety, perform better at school or work, adjust to difficult life events/transitions, and those who simply wish to gain insight into their personal past in order to welcome a bright and more honest future. Natasha's orientation to counseling is relationship based (collaborative), flexible, respectful and confidential.
If you’re dealing with stress, anxiety, or a major life transition, you may feel like you just have to push through. You tell yourself, “I’ll deal with this later" - but later never quite comes.
Over time, it can start to feel like something is wrong with you.
But you’re not broken - your life has moved out of balance.
I help you steady the overwhelm and begin to focus on what’s keeping you stuck, so things start to feel more manageable and clear again.
If you’re dealing with stress, anxiety, or a major life transition, you may feel like you just have to push through. You tell yourself, “I’ll deal with this later" - but later never quite comes.
Over time, it can start to feel like something is wrong with you.
But you’re not broken - your life has moved out of balance.
I help you steady the overwhelm and begin to focus on what’s keeping you stuck, so things start to feel more manageable and clear again.
With over 40 years as a practicing psychologist, I have learned that it is not just the latest technique that helps people change, but being deeply understood in a trusting therapy relationship. My aim is to help you not only to recover from your immediate emotional problems, but to explore the interpersonal blind spots that contributed to their development so that you can find more fulfillment and satisfaction in your life.
With over 40 years as a practicing psychologist, I have learned that it is not just the latest technique that helps people change, but being deeply understood in a trusting therapy relationship. My aim is to help you not only to recover from your immediate emotional problems, but to explore the interpersonal blind spots that contributed to their development so that you can find more fulfillment and satisfaction in your life.
Online Therapists
When you're ready to navigate your journey of healing and change, it's helpful to have supportive and nonjudgmental guidance. My goal is to meet you where you are and help you explore ways to improve your situation. Where are you in your healing journey? What strengths can you build on to become a better you? My ideal client has some insight that a change is needed in their life. The journey of healing is not easy, but it should be tailored to you and your needs. I would describe my communication style as empathetic and client-centered.
When you're ready to navigate your journey of healing and change, it's helpful to have supportive and nonjudgmental guidance. My goal is to meet you where you are and help you explore ways to improve your situation. Where are you in your healing journey? What strengths can you build on to become a better you? My ideal client has some insight that a change is needed in their life. The journey of healing is not easy, but it should be tailored to you and your needs. I would describe my communication style as empathetic and client-centered.
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FAQ - Black and African American Counselling
As an African American, why might I wish to see a therapist who is African American?
Working with an African American therapist can often mean that you start from a place of shared understanding with a therapist rather than having to explain your experience from scratch. A therapist who shares your racial identity is more likely to understand the specific pressures shaping your mental health, including navigating racism, cultural identity, and the overall experience of being Black in the United States. They are also more likely to understand the role that family, community, and cultural expectations play in your life without requiring a lengthy explanation. This shared foundation can create a greater sense of safety in the therapeutic relationship and make it easier to open up at the start of therapy.
Are there Black therapists who specialize in working with Black men or Black women?
Yes, many Black therapists have specific experience working with Black men or Black women. While therapists who work with Black clients broadly address concerns relevant to all genders, like anxiety or depression, those with a gender-specific focus are equipped to work with you on the particular ways that race and gender may intersect. For example, some therapists may specialize in working with Black women on topics like body image or maternal mental health, while other therapists may work with Black men on topics such as relationships or masculinity.
Do Black therapists offer marriage and couples counseling?
Yes, many Black therapists are trained in couples and marriage counseling and can work with partners navigating a wide range of relationship challenges. Therapists who identify as Black may have a better understanding of the cultural dynamics surrounding marriage, family roles, and conflict that are specific to African American communities and can work with you and your partner without making assumptions about your background.
How might I inquire about a therapist’s experience working with Black clients?
The initial consultation, which is typically a brief phone or video call, is the right time to raise a therapist’s experience working with Black clients. You can ask specific questions, such as "Do you have experience working with Black clients?" or more broad questions, such as "How do you approach cultural identity in your practice?". During the initial consultation, you can also ask whether they have undertaken training in cultural competence and how they would handle a situation where a cultural misunderstanding arose in therapy. A therapist who responds to these questions thoughtfully and without defensiveness is a good sign they are equipped to work with you effectively.
Who is included in Psychology Today's directory of Black therapists?
The directory of Black therapists includes therapists who have self-identified their ethnicity in their profiles. Psychology Today uses this information to assist clients in finding a therapist who can provide a cultural match. However, not all therapists choose to disclose their ethnicity in their profile, and they may not appear in search results for this reason. In situations where the number of therapists who have identified as Black is limited, the directory will also show therapists who have undergone specific multicultural training or have extensive experience working with clients from relevant cultural backgrounds.