Therapy for High-Performing Women of Color in Washington State
Support for anxiety, burnout, and life transitions—so you can understand yourself more clearly, set aligned boundaries, and make intentional decisions about your life.
What is therapy with Erika ?
Therapy with Erika is a space to slow down and make sense of what’s happening beneath the surface, especially when your life looks successful on the outside, but feels misaligned on the inside.
Together, we work to understand the patterns, beliefs, and experiences shaping how you relate to yourself, your work, and your relationships.
From there, therapy becomes about more than awareness—it becomes a process of making clearer, more aligned decisions, setting boundaries that reflect your values, and changing the ways you move through your life.
What to Expect in Our Sessions Together
Understanding Your Patterns
We’ll begin by slowing things down and looking at your current and past experiences to identify patterns in how you think, feel, and respond. This helps us understand what may be driving anxiety, burnout, or the sense of feeling stuck—even when you’re doing everything “right.”
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Building Awareness of Your Mind and Body
You’ll learn to recognize how your emotional and physiological responses show up in real time—whether that’s overthinking, shutting down, or pushing through. These responses are not random; they reflect learned patterns and expectations. Therapy helps you understand them so you can begin to respond to yourself differently.
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Learning to Navigate Discomfort
Growth often requires facing what’s uncomfortable instead of avoiding it. Together, we’ll work to identify what is within your control and what is not, and build your capacity to tolerate discomfort without becoming overwhelmed. This is where meaningful change begins.
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Developing Emotional Regulation and Boundaries
You’ll build practical skills to regulate your emotions, set boundaries that reflect your values, and make decisions that feel more aligned. The goal is not to eliminate difficult emotions, but to help you move through them with more clarity and control.
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Creating Sustainable Change
Over time, therapy becomes less about understanding the past and more about how you move forward. You’ll begin to make different choices, relate to yourself differently, and create a life that feels more aligned with who you are.
Is Therapy Right for You?
You don’t have to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. Many of my clients are functioning at a high level, but feel internally misaligned, overwhelmed, or disconnected from themselves.
This space is designed for high-performing women of color who are navigating one or more of the following:
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High-functioning anxiety or depression
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Burnout from years of overgiving, overachieving, or holding it all together
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Major life or identity transitions (career, relationships, purpose)
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Difficulty slowing down, resting, or receiving support
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A growing tension between who you’ve been and who you are becoming
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Therapy services are available to residents of Washington State.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
If you’ve made it this far, something here likely resonated with you. You don’t have to have everything figured out before starting therapy. You just need a place to begin.
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A consultation is a chance for us to talk through what’s bringing you here, answer any questions you have, and see if working together feels like the right fit. There’s no pressure—just a conversation.
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If you’re ready, you can schedule a consultation below.
