The Empowered Circle: Healing for Black Women Online Support Group
Online Support Groups for Black Women
Black women carry burdens that many have never felt before and certainly can’t understand. Black women have to navigate stereotypes that are piled on by racism, microaggressions, and the constant feeling of being unseen. The journey of a black woman is littered with the heaviness of society trying to put black women in a box and not celebrating their resilience, their beauty, their innovation, and loving nature.
This group offers a safe space for you, as a black woman, to feel empowered and share all that weighs you down and keeps you from being your full self.
The Empowered Circle: Healing for Black Women
This group is to explore the experiences and identity of being a Black woman in various spaces. You may be feeling stressed or anxious and find that friends, family, or close acquaintances just don’t understand. This group is for women that need support but are not in traumatic situations or currently in crisis. You may be seeking support for daily stressors from your life, relationships, society, or work. Are you overwhelmed with the impacts of the lack of balance in your parenting, friendships or romantic relationships, negative family history, or the intense racial climate? Although these things are heavy, they do not define who you or who you can be.
YOU ARE WORTHY, SEEN, & CHERISHED!
This group is designed to help black women who have many roles {mom, wife, entrepreneur, planner, coworker, friend, partner} grow insights and build coping skills while examining the triggers and stressors that activate your anxiety and cause you to self-doubt, lash out, or allow others to diminish your worth because of poor boundary setting. The mission is to provide a safe and sacred space for women to journey towards loving themselves. A space where women can come together, learn to love themselves unapologetically, be heard and be seen.
Why Choose a Support Group for Black Women?
Black women often face an intersection of challenges that places so much strain on their mental health, including:
Racism and Inequality: the stress and trauma that marginalization causes
Pressures of Society: the expectation to not be your divine self.
Isolation: isolation in workplaces and in the community around you
Emotional Invisibility: exploring the impact of smothering and dismissing how you feel
Balancing Roles: navigating the demands of work, relationships, and taking care of yourself
This support group for black women provides s sacred place to unpack all the ugly and the experiences while:
Connecting with your community without feeling judged or out of place
Healing from the trauma of racial and role-based stressors
Grow into who are meant to be while discovering how to love yourself
Learn strategies that are useful and unique to your needs in order to manage stress, anxiety, and overwhelm in healthy way.
How do I know this group is for me?
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CHALLENGES WITH STRESS MANAGEMENT AND TRIGGERS
ISSUES WITH BOUNDARY SETTING & SAYING “NO”
PEOPLE PLEASING TENDENCIES AT THE EXPENSE OF YOURSELF
LOW CONFIDENCE AND/OR SELF-ESTEEM
EXCESSIVE NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AND SELF-TALK
WORRYING ABOUT THE PAST OR THE FUTURE AND HAVING TROUBLE STAYING IN THE PRESENT
WORK/LIFE/FAMILY BALANCE
ANXIETY IN RELATIONSHIPS
ANGER & IRRITABILITY
DIFFICULTY COPING WITH LIFE TRANSITIONS
AVOIDING CONFRONTATION
PARENTING/COPARENTING CHALLENGES
How Group Therapy Works
1. Sign Up Online
Joining the group is easy. Just complete the prescreen signup form. This form is to help make sure the group is a good, healthy fit.
2. Weekly Group Sessions
Sessions are conducted online and you are sent a private link. We meet weekly, Wednesdays @ 1. Bring Lunch!
3. Skills and Tools
The group provides connection and an opportunity to learn and practice the skills you need to address your unique challenges.
What to Expect:
The Empowered Circle: Support Group for Black Women
What to Expect:
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Meets every week for 50-60 minutes and held on Google Meet or Simple Practice Telehealth- Sessions are offered online on a confidential, HIPAA Compliant Video Platform.
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Weekly Check-In from each group member
Guided Discussions with Weekly Topics
Opportunities to share real-life experiences
Skill building and application practice
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Yours truly! I, Latisha Ellis, am a licensed professional counselor with years of helping high-conflict coparents and your personal cheerleader. I have trained as a parent coordinator and work closely with attorneys and guardians to help their clients to create a better foundation in their coparenting journey.
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Cost: $95
How to Join: Complete the easy enrollment form and set up your client portal.
Number of Participants: 8-12. The group will have a maximum of 12 participants and a minimum of 4.
Sessions are not covered by insurance but you can use HSA/FSA funds
Accept all major credit/debit cards.
Offer use of Paypal, Zelle, & CashApp. (These are not HIPPA compliant so you use them at your own risk.)
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Meets Wednesdays @ 1p
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All group members are required to commit to a 10 session minimum.
This helps with group connection and cohesion.
After 10 sessions, you are encouraged to come but not required to come to every session. As long as there are open spaces you are welcome!
Respect the space, the members in the space, and the vulnerability so it can always be a protected space of learning, growing and connecting
Connect with other black women while creating a healthy connection to yourself and learning how to be emotionally present
FAQs
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Nope! This is a support an psycho-ed group. Anyone, anywhere can participate and are welcome
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That is okay. We can have a consultation to address your questions or fears. The support group is designed to meet people where they are and to creat community to help support the growth of all the members in the group.
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All participants are required to maintain confidentiality and will sign an informed consent.
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This is an ongoing group that meets weekly. Although you are required to meet for your first 10 consecutive sessions, after that you are welcome to come for as long as feel the group is helpful and you are finding the value and support you need and there is an open space.
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Yes!
Additional Support Services for Black Women
Individual Counseling for Stress & Resilience Support
For those seeking one-on-one support, individual counseling can help you:
Explore and address personal challenges more deeply.
Gain strategies for managing stress, relationships, and personal growth.
Build a stronger foundation for emotional wellness.
Relationship Counseling
If you’re navigating challenges in your relationships, couples or individual relationship counseling can provide tools to:
Strengthen communication and connection.
Resolve conflicts constructively and respectfully.
Build healthier, more fulfilling partnerships.
Mini Sessions
shorter 30 minute sessions ($75)
only for established clients
Usually used when clients are short on time or just need to talk about 1 topic
Voxer Instant Messaging
Messaging service that you can use to text/chat with me throughout the day.
This service is not HIPPA-Compliant.
30 mins | 1hr | 2hr
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My groups are my way of offering low-cost or a sliding scale. If you need additional help please checkout The Loveland Foundation.
They offer financial assistance to Black women and girls seeking therapy.
Are you ready to have the balance and calm in your life? Click below to sign-up.
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This group supports women who are seeking self-acceptance, growth, and love. With the world in the state that it’s in, support from others that understand you, comfort you, and lovingly challenge you will help you battle your anxiety while creating a community of women that you can turn to and begin healing so that you to wholly embrace life and change.
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