Dare to be witnessed™

This trauma-informed therapy centers ambitious women in high-powered careers who want to move with more authority and audacity.

If you are seeking psychological protection and restoration from systemic oppression, religious abuse, toxic workplace culture, dysfunctional family dynamics, and nonreciprocal platonic and romantic relationships, this therapeutic space was designed for you.

To my women who are high-achieving and high-performing externally while internally suffering from high-functioning depression and high-masking anxiety, I see you. Don’t get me wrong—you are doing an excellent job of not looking like what you are going through, but I see beyond the mask. I see you. I see your pain. I also see your pathway to healing.

Your trauma taught you that vulnerability always leads to violation. That ends today, if you allow it.

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You can choose to suffer or you can choose to surrender. I recommend the latter, love.

Francesca Walker, LMHC-D,NCC
A dark-skinned Black woman with two-strand twists styled in a bun poses against a plain white background. She is wearing a colorful, patterned long-sleeve shirt with geometric designs in red, yellow, blue, and black.

education & Clinical training

  • Vanderbilt University, Ed.D. (in progress)

  • New York University, M.A.

    • New York State License [with Diagnostic Privilege] # 016636

    • National Certified Counselor # 1743343

  • Vanderbilt University, M.Ed.

  • New York University, B.A.

  • Trauma Therapy Institute

  • Internal Family Systems Institute

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)