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BEL Counseling Services is a healing space created for Black women, birthing parents and families who are carrying the weight of trauma, grief, burnout, and life's transitions.

Through culturally responsive, trauma-focused care, we support your journey toward restoration, resilience, and wholeness.

You are pouring into everyone you love but who is pouring into you?

You are the one everyone relies on. You show up, push through, and handle what needs to get done, but underneath it all, you’re exhausted.

Here is a place for you to release, recover and restore.

Our Specialties

You’re managing motherhood, relationships and financial pressure and expected to hold it all together. Maybe your mind won’t slow down. Maybe your body feels constantly on edge. Maybe you’re carrying stress from your past, your finances and your relationships… and it is starting to feel like too much.

You don’t have to keep doing this alone. We are confident that we can help.

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Using somatic and EMDR therapy, we help you heal from trauma, release stress from your body, and finally feel calm, grounded and in control again

Healing here is not about fixing.

It’s about coming home to yourself.

Meet the Team

The right connection can make all the difference. Meet our therapists and discover who might be the right fit to walk alongside you on your healing journey.

Schedule a complimentary consultation

In your free 15-minute consultation, we’ll discuss what brings you to therapy and what you’re hoping to achieve.

This is an opportunity for us to see if we’re a good fit before moving forward. If we decide to work together, we’ll discuss the next steps for scheduling and beginning your therapeutic journey.

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