A Safe Space To Ride Life’s Waves
Prioritizing your mental health is one of the most challenging and rewarding actions you’ll take. Here, you’ll find decolonized mental health care, from a licensed clinical psychologist, to help you navigate life’s waves from wherever you are in the world…one wave at a time.
Experienced Care That Is Simple, Safe & Without Shame
Psychological well-being sustains your life force, and this is the right space to address your mental health needs. Navigating how to be well isn’t easy. It’s intentional care that you and I partner, in confidence, to achieve…without stigma and with understanding.
My name is Dr. Barbara F. Shabazz. You can call me Dr.B. I have over 25 years of experience facilitating change in the lives of clients and students. My role is to journey alongside you - supporting, validating, and facilitating agency - as you ‘work out the waves’. I can’t want it for you, more than you do. But, if you’re ready to make the commitment, to professional care, I’ll stand with you. Let’s do the work!
~ Purposefully, Dr. B. Dr. Barbara F. Shabazz, Psy.D. (she/her/hers) VA License # 0810008159
Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT)
Granted by the PSYPACT Commission | 05.09.2024 | #18558
Book Your Next Flexible Session
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This practice is teletherapy-based with flexible messaging, video, and app options… from wherever you are in the world. We achieve flexibility and time freedom with this model.
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This is a cash-only practice. Accepting cash allows me to support you, in and in-between sessions, in ways that do not align with current insurance reimbursement models.
FSA and HSA payments are welcome.
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Scheduling is simple. You will click one of the available links here, enter the portal, request an appointment [as an new or existing client], and wait for your requested time to be confirmed. If there are any questions to be answered before confirmation, I will reach out to you via email.
I see you. I hear you.
My approach is grounded in culturally-affirming practices, through a deeply integrative strengths-based methodology. While it is true that diagnostic labels play an important role in helping to identify how your daily functioning is being impaired, it’s important for me to remind you that you are human — not a label. Through a liberatrory lens, we focus on disputing limiting beliefs, confronting faulty cognitions, divesting from oppressive social constructs, and navigating environmental stressors in order to equip you with tools to cope manage, and mitigate your presenting symptoms. Curiosity, compassion, and collaboration are the cornerstones.
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