Good Fruit Expressive Arts Counseling & Psychotherapy LLC

12/25/2025

🎄✨ Wishing everyone a magical Christmas filled with love, laughter, and cherished moments with the people who matter most. May your day be merry and bright, your heart be full, and your home be filled with warmth and joy. Here’s to making memories that sparkle brighter than any tree lights! Merry Christmas! 🎁❤️

11/27/2025

A Day for Gratitude, Resistance, and Ancestral Wisdom

Today, many of us gather with loved ones and express thanks for what we have. Gratitude is a beautiful practice worth celebrating any day of the year.

But it’s also important to hold space for the fuller story of Thanksgiving—one that’s painful for many Black and Indigenous communities. For Native peoples, this day marks the beginning of centuries of colonization, broken treaties, stolen land, and attempted cultural erasure. For Black Americans, the mythology of Thanksgiving often erases the reality that many were enslaved during the “first Thanksgiving” era and throughout the centuries that followed.

Yet in the face of unimaginable oppression, our ancestors persevered. They resisted. They preserved sacred knowledge, spiritual practices, and cultural traditions that colonizers tried to destroy. Indigenous peoples maintained their connection to the land and their ceremonial ways despite every attempt at erasure. Enslaved Africans created new spiritual practices, kept freedom dreams alive, and built networks of resistance and liberation.

This perseverance is ancestral wisdom in action—the understanding that survival itself is resistance, that joy is revolutionary, that remembering is a form of freedom.

We can practice gratitude while also honoring this legacy of resistance. We can gather with family while also calling in the strength of those who fought for liberation. We can express thanks while walking the path our ancestors cleared toward justice.

Ways to honor this sacred complexity:

- Learn about and support Indigenous sovereignty and Black liberation movements
- Recognize whose ancestral lands you’re on
- Connect with spiritual practices rooted in resistance and healing
- Teach the fuller history of perseverance and struggle
- Let gratitude fuel action, not complacency

Gratitude, resistance, and liberation are not separate—they are interwoven threads in the tapestry our ancestors left us. Today and every day, we honor their wisdom by continuing the work.

11/27/2025

11/21/2025

Hey Good People!
Curious about how the creative arts support mental well-being and nervous system regulation to improve focus, productivity and self care?

Join me on Sunday at 7pm EST for a free orientation to kick-off the Calm Mind, Calm Spirit virtual group series.

11/18/2025

Hey Good People!

This season is calling for rest and recalibration. I know it might sound counterintuitive given it’s the busiest season of the year. Whether you celebrate the holidays or not, you will nevertheless find yourself caught up in the propaganda and inflated sense of urgency. But guess what…you get to decide what and who gets your energy and attention!

What if you made the decision to center calm in the midst of the chaos? How would you feel mentally, spiritually and physically? What if there is one impactful pivot that will change everything you dread about this time of year?

I’ve had so many clients over the years who cringed and braced themselves for the “bers” (September, October, November and December) that they literally made themselves mentally and physically unstable. They were preparing for overwhelm, unreasonable deadlines, increased expenses, longer workdays, sleepless nights, incessant headaches, excessive worry, stressful holiday gatherings and a whole list of other unproductive mental loops.

If this resonates with you or someone you know and you’re ready for a real resolution, join me for Calm Mind, Calm Spirit. This 10-week virtual group series will help you finish the year focused and start the year less stressed. The series will include creative outlets that keep you calm regardless of what’s going on around you. Each week there will be a new practice you can add to your self-care routine.

Join me on Sunday, November 23rd at 7pm EST for a FREE orientation. DM for the meeting details.

10/29/2025

While I'll no longer be conducting therapy sessions in the traditional sense, my skills, knowledge and expertise are transferable to everything I do. As such, I'm excited about incorporating ancestral wisdom, creative arts and Indigenous ways of knowing into my training and leadership development rebrand (IYKYK😉)

"It is through the creative process that revelation, clarity and resolution are often revealed, and this lends as a bridge between verbal and nonverbal as well as conscious and unconscious patterns and ways of being."
~Dr. Angela M Grayson

10/29/2025

Embodied presence - choosing to show up in the God version of me to the fullest in all the ways she chooses to be seen - natural, beautiful, messy, blemished and unraveled🥰🤭🥹

The messy truth - it's taking longer than I expected to get everything ready to launch my new company. But I didn't want that to keep people from experiencing one of the services I'll be offering - Creative Arts Intensives. These 3-5 hour sessions create a container for deep transformative work with long-lasting results.

As I venture through the process of my rebrand, I invite you to take advantage of a limited opportunity.

I am opening up 5 spots at a significant savings to folks who know they need to finally work through an issue that is stunting their growth, keeping them in a trauma loop, or repeating patterns that no longer serve them.

If you're ready to get to the root of a painstaking problem that has been keeping you from living the life your want without the emotional baggage, guilt or shame, take advantage of this pre-launch savings opportunity.

Once these 5 spots fill up, the Creative Arts Intensives will revert to full price. DM me to schedule yours TODAY!

10/17/2025

Hey Good People!
After more than 30 years as a mental health clinician and more than 20 years in private practice, the time has come to exit stage left.

I am so grateful to have had such a long fulfilling career as a therapist in numerous settings with various populations over the years. I am grateful for the thousands of lives I got to touch and the seeds of mental and emotional healing that were planted. I am grateful for the wisdom gleaned, the joy of witnessing client breakthroughs, the hard lessons learned and the failures endured.

While this chapter of my work will end, I am extremely elated to transition my skills into the next level of my calling. This rebrand is the culmination of years of deep inner work and my invitation to you to remember your roots, your legacy and your power. It's a call to healing on a deep ancestral level. It's the answer to your soul's cry to be free of the masks that block your beautiful essence.

Stay tuned as things are taking shape in the background and I prepare for the grand rebrand!

In the meantime, I want to share one of the new services I'm offering to help you connect with yourself beyond words. Creative Arts Intensives allow for deeper, focused work using somatic therapies, the arts, mindfulness and indigenous knowing. These customized extended sessions consists of 3-5 hours of personalized attention to support your needs and make accelerated progress towards your identified goals in a safe container.

DM me to learn more or schedule a session!

10/10/2025

🙇🏽‍♀️🧠 💃🏽Happy World Mental Health Day! 🙇🏽‍♂️🧠🕺🏽

Mental health matters—just as much as physical health. Today and every day, we're reminding ourselves that it's okay to not be okay, and it's powerful to ask for help.

Whether you're struggling or thriving, taking care of your mental health looks different for everyone. It might be talking to someone you trust, seeking professional support, practicing self-care, spending time in nature, or simply being kind to yourself.

Don't forget that your mind and body are connected—and movement is medicine.

Dance and movement therapy offers powerful benefits for mental wellness: to reduce stress and anxiety, boost mood through natural endorphins, improve emotional expression, and create a sense of joy and freedom. Whether it's dancing like nobody's watching, a gentle yoga flow, or simply moving to music you love, getting your body in motion is an act of self-care.

You don't need to be a dancer. You just need to move in ways that feel good to you.

This World Mental Health Day, we're celebrating all the ways we take care of our minds—and reminding you that sometimes the best therapy is a little bit of movement. 🎵

Take a moment today to stretch, dance, or move in whatever way brings you peace. You're not alone. Your feelings are valid. Your mental health matters.

If you or someone you know is struggling, reach out. There are people ready to listen and support you. Call 988 or 800-273-TALK (8255) for the National Mental Health Hotline.

💚 Prioritize your mental health today and always.

10/01/2025

Hey Good People!
It's a new month and the last quarter of 2025. Make it count!

09/12/2025

Hey sis, if the timeline feels like too much right now… you’re not alone. 🙇🏾‍♀️ It’s okay to mute, log off, and step back. Protecting your peace doesn’t mean you’re ignoring reality, it means you’re choosing when and how to engage.💖