Black Mental Health Matters. Why Black people need Therapy!
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Dr. Brathwaite, DSW, LCSW-C, LICSW, CST has over 15 years of clinical experience. She specializes in Sex therapy, Trauma, CBI (community based interventions), Person Centered Care, Crisis Intervention, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and MultiSystemic Therapy. She works with adolescents, families, couples and individuals. She has been supervising therapists, interns and case managers for over 12 years.
Dr. Brathwaite has worked with the foster care system, juvenile services, social services, both Maryland and D.C's school systems as well as Maryland and D.C's court systems. She has served as clinical manager/director in multiple outpatient mental health clinics in Maryland and DC. She currently has a consulting and private therapy practice in Bowie Maryland. She is a licensed clinical social worker and board supervisor in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia and Georgia.
She received her Bachelor's degree in African American Studies from the University of Maryland - College Park. Her Masters of Social Work from the University of Maryland - Baltimore and her Doctorate of Social Work from the University of Southern California.
Dr. Brathwaite started SkinFolkTherapy because she felt that too many people in minority communities were not utilizing therapy. Between the stigma, expense and not feeling comfortable with therapist that don't look like them, Dr. Brathwaite wanted to change that. She wanted Black therapist talking to their communities about the things we usually don't. It is time to break those generational curses and change the notion that Black people don't go to therapy.
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