Therapy for the BIPOC community

The particular weight of navigating the world in a racialized body belongs in the room. You deserve care that doesn't ask you to shrink any part of that.

Race isn't a side note in mental health. For Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, the stress of living in a racialized world has real effects on wellbeing. Therapy should account for that.

Many BIPOC clients have experienced therapy where their racial identity was politely set aside, or where they had to explain basic realities about their lives before any real work could begin. This isn't that.

Your racial and cultural identity is part of our work from the start. You won't have to justify your experiences or translate your context.

You might recognize:

Code-switching so long you lose track of your own voice
Fatigue from explaining or representing
Hypervigilance in rooms where you're the only one
Grief and anger with nowhere safe to land
Imposter feelings that follow real achievements
Carrying family and community on your back
Numbness where pride and joy should be

What makes this weight heavier

Racism — overt, subtle, and systemic
Intergenerational trauma and survival messages
Workplaces and schools not built with you in mind
Family expectations shaped by scarcity and safety
Rarely seeing your experience reflected in care

Your experiences are real, and they have weight. Therapy here starts from belief, not translation.

How therapy helps.

What we might work through together

Racial trauma and its cumulative impact. The exhaustion of code-switching in spaces that weren't designed with you in mind. Microaggressions and the drain of figuring out how to respond. Racial grief. The complexity of working and living in predominantly white environments.

Racial identity development and what it means to define your identity on your own terms. How race intersects with gender, sexuality, class, and other parts of who you are. You don't have to leave any of this outside the door.

A space built for your whole self

Our work will be shaped by your specific experience. Your community, your history, your way of moving through the world: all of it has a place here.

Start Your Therapy Journey

Sliding scale spots are currently open with Laila Siddiqui, MHC-I for clients located in New York — you choose what you can pay, from $30 to $80 per session. See fees & insurance.

Who you'll work with.

Tina Liu, LMHC-D

Founder & psychotherapist. EMDR-trained, culturally attuned, licensed in New York & Florida.

About Tina →

Laila Siddiqui, MHC-I

Mental Health Counselor. Works with teens and young adults in New York, under the clinical supervision of Tina Liu, LMHC-D. Sliding scale spots available.

About Laila →

Our clinical team is growing — new therapists joining soon.

Not sure where to start? Send us a note and we'll figure it out together.