by Erika T. Kendrick | Aug 19, 2025 | Anxiety Therapy
If you’re the friend who has it all together, the coworker who always delivers, or the family member everyone leans on, you might be living with high-functioning anxiety. It’s not a formal diagnosis, but it’s a very real experience where you’re smiling on the outside...
by Erika T. Kendrick | Aug 7, 2025 | Anxiety Therapy
Let’s name it: The Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema isn’t just armor—it can weigh you down. It’s the cultural mandate to be unbreakable, self-sufficient, caregiving, and ever-resilient. But underneath that celebrated strength, many Black women are living with chronic...
by Erika T. Kendrick | Jul 23, 2025 | Black Therapist
Let’s be clear: You are more than just a body walking into a therapy session; you are a story, a lineage, and a layered identity shaped by race, gender, culture, and lived experience, and all of that comes with you—whether the world is ready to hold it or not....
by Erika T. Kendrick | Jul 16, 2025 | Anxiety Therapy
Ever look at a Black woman and think, She’s got it together? Edges laid, smile warm, calendar booked. She’s doing it all, handling it all, and carrying it all. But if you sat with her for five quiet minutes, you might hear something different beneath the surface: “I’m...
by Erika T. Kendrick | Jul 7, 2025 | Black Therapist
You ever find yourself wondering why your body stays on edge—even when nothing’s “wrong”? Why hearing certain headlines or walking into certain rooms makes your heart race or your stomach drop? Let’s name it: Race-based traumatic stress is real. And no, you’re...
