The Purple Couch Therapy

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

You are allowed to ask your therapist hard questions. 🖤
Your care should honor all of who you are—your culture, your identity, your lived experience.

✨ Therapy should be a place where you feel safe, seen, and whole—not where you shrink. Asking these questions helps you protect your energy and choose care that’s aligned, liberatory, and culturally grounded.

💜 You deserve a therapist who gets it.

10/28/2025

In January, we’re launching Reclaiming Healing in Supervision — a 3-day training designed for LCSWs and LMFTs who want to step into supervision while centering culture, intersectionality, and systemic harm. 🌿
This isn’t just about upgrading your license. It’s about becoming the kind of supervisor our field needs right now — someone who can guide with liberation, equity, and care.
📌 Dates: January 21–23 (payment plans available)

👥 Small cohort, value-aligned supervisors only

📩 DM us or email to join the waitlist

Let’s reclaim healing in supervision — because the next generation of therapists deserve leaders who see the whole picture. 💜

10/27/2025

Survivors are often told, “You need to forgive to move on.” But forgiveness is not required for healing.

Healing after domestic violence is about reclaiming safety. It’s about learning to trust your own body, your own voice, your own worth again.

💜 Healing belongs to you — not to the person who harmed you.

10/25/2025

For Black womxn, domestic violence is never just personal.
It’s harm compounded by misogynoir, the unique blend of racism + sexism that shapes how we are seen, heard, and treated.

These realities leave many Black womxn to choose silence or survival alone because the very systems designed to “help” were never built with us in mind.

Domestic violence against Black womxn is not invisible, it’s ignored through the lens of misogynoir. Our healing must center our truth.

Follow for more on collective healing + liberation.

10/24/2025

I’m so grateful for the incredible people who follow this work and help make sure we share the most up-to-date, information.

Shout out to Robyn Manhood, a researcher in traumatic brain injuries and clinician who walks alongside women who’ve survived intimate partner violence and are now rebuilding in new relationships.

This powerful clinician reached out to add the neuroscience behind the question “Why doesn’t she leave?”
Because let’s be real, so many professionals still ask this question. It’s easy to judge from the outside. It’s harder , but necessary, to understand what trauma does to the brain, the body, and our sense of safety.

If you follow this account and have an amazing DV (domestic violence) resource, please share it in the comments or DMs. We’ll uplift it so more survivors and providers can connect to support.

Thank you, , for your incredible work in the field. 💜

10/24/2025

Many survivors stay in harmful relationships because our bodies can tolerate more than we should ever have to. Survival teaches us to minimize, to endure, to silence the alarm bells.

But healing shifts that. 🌿 As we begin to recover, our tolerance for abuse decreases. What once felt “normal” becomes intolerable. We start choosing safety, care, and love over harm.

💜 If this resonates with you know that your body’s wisdom is guiding you toward freedom.

10/23/2025

If you’ve ever asked, ‘Why didn’t they just leave?’ — pause.
Leaving isn’t simple. It’s dangerous. It’s tangled in trauma bonds, financial barriers, cultural silences, and systems that protect abusers more than survivors.
When we ask why they stayed, we miss the real question:

If this is your story: you are not alone. You are not weak. You deserve safety and healing.

10/23/2025

Respect is a huge thing for many families of culture
and as much as the word disrespectful gets thrown around when you decide to color outside the lines,
I was never taught self-respect.

We hide behind the word “respectful” so we can have control over our people.
Rarely is self-respect ever taught.
Who taught you how to respect yourself?

10/22/2025

It took me fifty eleven times to leave an abusive relationship, my body was so use to the tolerance of abuse since a young age. Everyone’s story will be different but eventually through my experience and witnessing many others, the tatics are all the same.

When I wanted to go back my therapist would ask me Jess what behaviors have you seen change?

10/20/2025

For generations, we’ve been told to carry everyone else’s burdens, to be the backbone, the caretaker, the strong one.
But strength without softness is survival, not living.

✨ My work is about creating spaces where Black womxn don’t have to perform strength.
✨ Where grief is sacred.
✨ Where rage is medicine.
✨ Where vulnerability is celebrated.

Because when Black womxn are nurtured — whole communities thrive.

💬 Drop a 💜 if you’re reclaiming rest, softness, or grief as sacred.

10/19/2025

This October, we’re celebrating another year of healing at Purple Couch Therapy. 💜

From 2024–2025, we’ve been able to offer 548 fully covered therapy sessions to members of our community thanks to our ongoing partnership with Empower House.
This milestone isn’t just a number.

It’s 548 moments of rest, safety, reflection, and liberation.

To every client, partner, and supporter , thank you for being part of this journey. Your presence makes healing accessible, communal, and real.
Here’s to another year of collective care. 🌿