mission
vision
To help BIPOC individuals and couples stop defaulting to survival mode in the relationships that matter most, using racial history, somatic practice, and structured tools that turn insight into changed behavior.
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A world where the tools that change us don't stay inside therapy rooms. Where people who have spent their lives navigating pressure, power, and harm can put that armor down at home, and where honest conversation between people who share history becomes ordinary instead of rare.
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I'm domenique
I'm a race and relationships therapist, which means we don't get to race after we've covered everything else. It is where we start. We look at the histories you inherited, the ways your body still carries them, and the conversations you keep not having, and then we practice something different.
Baltimore-based, after years in Los Angeles
I'm licensed in five states, an Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity, and nearly a decade into building curricula, leading national trainings, and sitting with clients in the work itself. What I went looking for in graduate school is what I practice now: to thrive, we need to know our bodies, our thoughts, our identities, and our histories. I built the practice I could not find, and I am still in the work myself.
“I didn’t want to see people moving through the world on autopilot, hurting themselves and others who matter dearly to them.”
A look inside my journey
Before I became a race and relationships therapist, I worked in community care and crisis management leading educational events and planning responses to disaster emergencies. I have always had a heart for community learning, health and wellness, however, I felt so far away from the community outcomes. I never really saw - first hand - the healing from my efforts. And I knew that working directly with individuals and small groups would give me the closeness I sought.
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After entering my psychology graduate program, I moved through the classes with ease but felt something was missing. I sought out external resources such as books, essays and articles on race and racism, effective communication strategies, intergenerational trauma and cultural narratives. While the extra learning helped in many ways, it wasn't enough when I started my work with clients. Most folks were wounded by unmet relational needs, disconnected from their racial familial and community histories, numb to their body responses and ill-equipped when talking with partners, family and peers about their hopes and hurts.
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WORK WITH ME
What it's like to work with Domenique
A client once told me she grew more in two sessions with me than in six months with a therapist who just agreed with her. She didn't
need to be understood — she needed to stop defaulting to survival mode in the relationships that mattered most.Subheading
Couples come here, often multiracial or LGBTQIA+, when intimacy has gone quiet and every exchange starts to feel managed. Black and Indigenous women, femmes, and non-binary clients come when the performance has become the whole personality and they want to know who is underneath it. Organizations and groups come when they want a community space that practices equity rather than describing it. Whichever door you came through, the grounding is the same. We trace how racial history shaped your relational patterns, because what taught you to survive also taught you how to love, argue, and go quiet. Then we build language you can use in the conversation you have been avoiding, and I hold you to using it.
A client once told me she grew more in two sessions with me than in six months with a therapist who just agreed with her.
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