Kaela is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, speaker, researcher and the founder of Therapy While Black, an organization dedicated to eliminating mental health stigma in the Black community. She strives to create safer and culturally affirming mental health spaces that center the fullness of Black humanity. When she's not talking on the internet about boundaries, trauma, and mental health, she sees virtual therapy clients throughout California with a focus on healing from traumatic experiences and anxiety. Kaela is also a PhD student in clinical psychology and a dog mama and a lover of all things chocolate.

 

Kaela chose to become a therapist in part because of her own experiences with the mental healthcare system and because she has always been interested in a career centered around helping people.

 

Kaela lives and works out of California, in the United States. 

 

 

Recommended Books:

-Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat: A Story of Bulimia, by Stephanie Covington-Armstrong