Black Female Therapists in Atlanta & Dunwoody, GA
Finding a therapist who understands the cultural context around your experiences can make a difference in how comfortable and understood you feel in therapy. Our Black female therapists support adults, couples, and families dealing with anxiety, depression, burnout, relationship concerns, addiction and recovery, grief, and major life changes.
In-person sessions are available in Atlanta and Dunwoody, depending on therapist availability.
Therapy That Understands the Context You Live In
Race, gender, family expectations, work, relationships, faith, and community can all shape what you bring into therapy. For some people, those experiences are central to what they want to talk about. For others, they are simply part of the background that should already be understood.
Working with a Black female therapist can make it easier to talk about experiences that are often hard to explain from scratch, from being the only Black woman in the room to carrying family responsibilities, dealing with workplace pressure, code-switching, or feeling caught between what others expect from you and what you actually want for yourself.
That shared cultural understanding does not mean every experience is assumed to be the same. It means there is more room to get to the real issue sooner, without having to translate every part of your experience first.
Finding the right therapist is not only about credentials. It is also about finding someone whose experience, clinical focus, and way of working make sense for what you are dealing with.
Our Black female therapists each bring a different perspective to the work, with experience across anxiety, depression, relationships, burnout, addiction and recovery, grief, and major life changes. Take a look at their profiles below to see who feels like the strongest fit for the kind of support you want.
Meet Our Black Female Therapists in Atlanta & Dunwoody, GA
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Shallynn Jackson, PC
Shallynn works with individuals, couples, and professionals facing anxiety, burnout, workplace stress, overthinking, self-esteem concerns, relationship challenges, and life transitions. She also supports people who feel emotionally drained, stuck in self-doubt, or disconnected from themselves.
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Joi C. Rumph, MS
Joi works with individuals, couples, and families dealing with addiction and recovery, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship concerns, and major life changes. Her work also supports people seeking sobriety, maintaining recovery, or trying to make lasting changes after feeling stuck.
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Lynn Graves, BS
Lynn works with individuals, couples, parents, and LGBTQ+ clients around relationship strain, infidelity, communication, faith, parenting, family conflict, and major life changes. Her work also includes premarital counseling and support for couples rebuilding trust.
When You’re Used to Being the One Who Handles It
Being the person everyone depends on can make it hard to notice how much you are carrying yourself. Work, family, relationships, caregiving, and other people’s expectations can leave very little room to think about what you need.
For many Black women, there can also be pressure to stay composed, keep performing, or push through stress without showing how much it is taking out of you. Therapy can be a place to talk about that honestly, without having to minimize it or explain why it matters.
You do not have to wait until everything falls apart to make room for yourself. Sometimes the work starts with finally saying what has been weighing on you and deciding what you want to change.
Therapy Services With Our Black Female Therapists
Our team offers individual, couples, and family therapy for a range of emotional, relationship, and life concerns. Explore the areas below to see which type of support best matches what you are looking for.
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Anxiety Therapy
Provides support for those experiencing persistent worry, excessive stress, or anxiety symptoms. Therapy focuses on coping strategies, resilience building, and fostering confidence. Clients gain skills to manage daily challenges and improve overall well-being.
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Grief & Loss
Provides support for those coping with loss, grief, or major life changes. Therapy focuses on emotional healing, processing difficult feelings, and fostering hope. Clients gain skills to navigate daily challenges and move forward at their own pace.
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Depression Therapy
Provides support for those experiencing persistent sadness, low motivation, or depression symptoms. Therapy focuses on emotional healing, resilience building, and fostering hope. Clients gain skills to navigate daily challenges and improve overall well-being.
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Burnout & Work Stress Therapy
Supports professionals experiencing burnout, chronic stress, workplace anxiety, or emotional exhaustion. Counseling focuses on restoring balance, building healthy boundaries, and developing strategies to manage work-related pressures with greater confidence and resilience.
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Addiction & Recovery Counseling
Supports adults working toward sobriety, maintaining recovery, or adjusting to life after rehab, IOP, or another treatment program. Counseling can also address cravings, relapse risk, stress, relationship strain, and the routines needed to support long-term recovery.
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Family Therapy
Provides support for families experiencing conflict, communication challenges, or major life transitions. Therapy focuses on strengthening relationships, improving understanding, and fostering connection. Families gain skills to navigate challenges together and build healthier dynamics.
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Couples Counseling
Helps couples rebuild trust, improve communication, and deepen connection. Whether facing conflict or seeking to strengthen bonds, counseling focuses on understanding and growth. The goal is a healthier, more fulfilling partnership.
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Spirituality
Creates a safe, judgment-free environment to discuss sexual identity, orientation, and related experiences. Counseling supports exploration, healing from past trauma, and embracing authenticity. It empowers clients to live confidently and openly.
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LGBTQ+ Therapy
Your identity and story matter. We provide a supportive, affirming space to talk through questions around sexuality, orientation, or shame — with no judgment.
Therapy for Black women can be a place to get clear about what you want when relationships, family expectations, career decisions, faith, or major life changes have made that harder to separate from what everyone else wants from you.
You may be questioning a relationship, reconsidering your career, working on family boundaries, rebuilding after addiction, grieving a loss, or realizing that the life you have now no longer fits.
Sessions can focus on the decision or change in front of you: setting a boundary, repairing or leaving a relationship, changing direction at work, rebuilding after a loss, or making recovery more stable. Therapy gives you room to sort through the options, decide what matters most, and figure out what you want to do next.
Therapy for Black Women in Atlanta & Dunwoody
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Couples and family therapy are available with members of our team. Areas of focus include communication problems, conflict, trust, infidelity, family relationships, parenting concerns, and major relationship changes.
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Yes. Virtual sessions are available to clients throughout Georgia, so you can work with a Black female therapist without traveling to the Dunwoody office.
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Our therapists work with concerns including anxiety, depression, burnout, relationship problems, grief, family conflict, addiction and recovery, boundaries, self-esteem, and major life transitions. Each therapist has her own areas of focus, so reviewing their profiles can help you choose the right fit.
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No. Our Black female therapists work with adults, couples, and families from different backgrounds. You can choose a therapist based on the experience, specialties, and approach that fit what you are looking for.
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Yes. In-person sessions are available at our Dunwoody office, serving clients from Atlanta and surrounding areas. Virtual therapy is also available throughout Georgia.
Find the Right Black Female Therapist for You
A free consultation gives you the chance to talk through what you want support with, ask questions about the therapist’s approach and availability, and decide whether you’d like to schedule a first session. You can come in with a clear goal or simply knowing that something in your life needs attention.