About Me
I’m a Licensed Psychotherapist, Holistic Mental Health & Healing Practitioner, Training Facilitator, and D.E.I Consultant.
I identify as a Queer Haitian-American woman originally from New York. I love animals, music, and talking about equity, justice, and spirituality. You can usually find me with headphones on, listening to my favorite playlist or podcast while strolling with my dog.
I’ve always been passionate about working with youth, young adults, women, people of color, and the LGBTQI+ community.
I have a Master’s of Arts and a Master of Education in Psychological Counseling from the Teachers College at Columbia University. I’ve also received a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies from the University at Albany. I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in the State of New York.
Ariel Emmanuel - She/Her
My Personal Style:
I utilize a holistic, eclectic, intersectional, and person-centered approach. My style is informed by my passion for creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive environments that are anti-racist and anti-oppressive.
I incorporate a trauma-informed lens to allow us to consider healing with mindfulness and somatic practices included. The mind and body perspectives help to ground the therapeutic work and examine multiple practices in healing.
My style is informed by restorative healing-centered practices for folx who have experienced gender-based violence. I apply my gender studies background to support individuals with issues related to their gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. I specialize in working with people who have experienced Intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, and sexual assault.
As a holistic health and healing practitioner, I also incorporate herbalism, energy work, and divination into my practice to allow for spiritual growth and development. I desire to create an intuitive, compassionate, and warm approach to therapy, coaching and consulting.
I also believe community healing and training can serve as a vital component in building the skills needed to improve mental health. I strive to provide community based healing practices that consider the impact on not just the individual ,but their overall community and/or family system.
My Approach
As a Therapist, Coach & Holistic Healing Practitioner:
Providing individuals with a secure place can serve as the catalyst for acceptance and healing. I believe that everyone deserves a place to feel acknowledged and validated and that in those healing spaces, real transformational work happens. I aim to create this by having an open, empathetic demeanor that allows for individuals to feel comfortable expressing their full selves.
Through self-love and acceptance, clients can find the strengths within to explore their patterns, trauma, and any negative thoughts or beliefs that brought them to therapy. I use several tools that support clients' minds and bodies while experiencing difficult and heavy feelings that stem from stress, fear, anxiety, anger, depression, or trauma.
I incorporate herbalism, energy work, and divination into my practice to allow for spiritual growth and development. This offer space to consider healing with mindfulness, somatic, and holistic healing practices included.
As a Anti-racist, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultant:
Creating an anti-racist equity lens allows me to examine services and programs critically to increase equity, diversity, and Inclusion. I utilize an intersectional equity framework to examine how race, class, sexuality, and other identity factors contribute to disparities experienced by certain identities groups.
My passion for serving individuals from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds, religions, abilities, body types, and members of the LGBTQI+ community drives my work. It is important for me to teach others how to practice in a way that is culturally competent, anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and LGBTQI+ inclusive.
Providing leadership, direction, and strategic planning to design and implement anti-racist, LGBTQI+ affirming, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that facilitate a unified experience for my consulting clients.
I construct community-based healing spaces for organizations by teaching and building restorative and social justice frameworks into their mission.