Exhale Sis.
You’re here.
We’re holding space for all of it.
Because frankly, it’s a lot!
Exhortations with Dr. Stephanie Jacobs offers you a welcoming, encouraging and relatable space that fully sees, embraces and elevates your humanity and your need to rest and thrive.
Black Women Professionals encounter unique challenges and dynamics. Many Black women engage in high-effort coping, often shouldering the emotional, social, and economic brunt of family, community and fictive kin networks. Sustaining these responsibilities–especially in difficult social and political times–can take a toll on mental, physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual health.
Because cumulative and persistent stress for Black Women Professionals can lead to burnout, exhaustion, and disconnection from oneself and others, in very unique ways, it is essential to foster an intentional environment for Black Women Professionals to contemplate upon and address these particular issues head-on:
- Assess the investment of your time, attention, talents, money, energy, creativity, beauty, spirituality, intelligence, resilience and wisdom
- Consider people and places that benefit from your magic, yet don’t reciprocate or adequately note your contributions.
- Challenging workplaces: Imposter Syndrome, overqualified, managing up, the only one, invisibility, toxicity
- John Henryism, over-functioning and burnout
- Impacts of stressful relationship dynamics
- Empowerment, resilience and resistance
- Strength and vulnerability
- Self-worth and self-image
- Soul-care and self-care
- Dating and partnering
- Isms and oppression
- Stress and anxiety
- Voicelessness
Black Women Professionals can also benefit from participating in a therapeutic process that empowers the development of life-enriching insights and skills:
- Improve relationship with Self
- Expand communication and conflict management skills
- Process thoughts and emotions | make meaning of experiences | start healing past hurts
- Learn or expand coping skills and wellness practices | manage transitions
- Challenge unhelpful thoughts and behaviors | change perspectives
Here, find solace and support undergirded with validation, respect, honesty and compassion. With a holistic perspective on mind, body and soul, candidly reflect on your life. Be seen and heard. Confirm your journey with open, empathic conversations about the multifaceted realities you face. Prioritize your well-being and flourish!
Services are provided via teletherapy for residents of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. This flexibility allows you to engage in therapy from the confidential location of your choice to reduce potential barriers to access. (Studies find teletherapy is comparable to in-person therapy in efficacy and patient satisfaction.)
Therapy for Black Women Professionals is intended for clients functioning daily at moderate to higher levels. Services are not intended for emergencies, crises or significant mental health concerns.
If you live outside of New Jersey or Pennsylvania and are interested in enhancing your well-being through coaching services, click here to explore other options to support your journey.
Insurance: Out of Network
Contact Dr. Jacobs
Use the form below or call (856) 282-0004
Disclaimer
Therapy services are for moderate, non-crisis concerns. Services are not intended to treat psychological, emotional, behavioral or relational emergencies or crises and are not intended to treat severe, acute, or chronic issues or diagnoses.
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