Therapy for Black Men: It's Time to Put Yourself First
“Your vulnerability is not a weakness. It’s a doorway to your own power.”
~ Alex Elle, Author & Wellness Educator
~ Alex Elle, Author & Wellness Educator
You’ve been holding it all together for a long time. The weight of the world, the pressures of work, the expectations of family, and the constant need to be strong can be exhausting. As a Black man, you navigate a world that doesn’t always see you, hear you, or value you. We get it.
At Resilient Mind Counseling, we offer a space where you don’t have to be anything but yourself. A space for real talk, real healing, and real growth. This is therapy for Black men, and it’s for you.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Feeling like you’re constantly on guard, unable to let your true self show.
The pressure to be the provider, the protector, and the rock for everyone else, leaving no room for your own needs.
Working twice as hard to get half as far, feeling overlooked and undervalued.
The quiet struggle with anxiety or a low mood that you can’t seem to shake.
The feeling that you have to carry the weight of generations of trauma and injustice.
The belief that seeking help is a sign of weakness.
These are not just your burdens to bear alone. These are the shared experiences of many Black men. And while the world may tell you to “man up” and keep it all inside, we’re here to tell you something different:
Your feelings are valid. Your mental health matters. And therapy for Black men can be a powerful tool for change.
Be Heard: Share your story with a therapist who understands the unique challenges you face as a Black man.
Heal: Process the impact of racism, discrimination, and generational trauma in a safe and supportive environment.
Grow: Develop the tools to manage stress, anxiety, and depression, and build the life you want to live.
Thrive: Discover your own strength, resilience, and power, and step into a more authentic and fulfilling version of yourself.
Ready to Take the First Step?
Don’t let another day go by feeling like you have to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. You deserve to feel seen, heard, and supported. You deserve to thrive.
It’s time to invest in yourself. It’s time to start your journey toward healing and wholeness.
We are more than just a therapy practice. We are a community of providers who are committed to providing culturally competent and affirming care. We believe that:
Black Lives Matter.
Your experiences are valid and deserve to be heard.
Therapy should be a space where you can be your authentic self, without fear of judgment.
We understand that the idea of therapy can be intimidating. But taking that first step is an act of strength. It’s an investment in yourself, your future, and your well-being.
At Resilient Mind Counseling, we believe in providing inclusive counseling services. This is why we also provide supportive therapy for those who identify as Neurodivergent and LGBTQ. Our online therapists in North Carolina also provide anxiety treatment, depression treatment, and PTSD treatment. As well as mood disorder treatment, marriage counseling, and couples therapy.
For accessibility, we provide these services through online therapy in North Carolina. Additionally, we have a provider who prescribes psychiatric medication in Asheville, NC.
Resilient Mind Counseling
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to