Empowering Therapy for Black Non-Binary Individuals in North Carolina
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
~ Audre Lorde, Writer, Civil Rights Activist
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
~ Audre Lorde, Writer, Civil Rights Activist
Being Black and non-binary means navigating a world that often doesn’t see or understand your unique experience. You might feel the weight of expectations from multiple communities, leaving you feeling isolated, misunderstood, or invisible. At Resilient Mind Counseling, we see you, we hear you, and we are here to provide a space where you can be your authentic self without explanation or apology.
Our therapy for Black non-binary individuals is a place to heal, grow, and thrive.
If you are a Black non-binary person, you may be familiar with:
The Exhaustion of Existing: Constantly feeling like you have to educate others about your identity, while also navigating the daily realities of being Black in America.
A Sense of “Otherness”: Feeling like you don’t quite fit in within Black spaces or LGBTQIA+ spaces, leaving you searching for a community that truly understands.
The Weight of Invisibility: Your experiences as a Black non-binary person are often overlooked, and your voice can feel silenced.
The Pressure to Choose: Feeling forced to prioritize one part of your identity over another, when in reality, they are beautifully intertwined.
Fear for Your Safety: Worrying about how you are perceived in public and taking extra precautions to protect yourself.
If any of this resonates with you, know that you are not alone, and it is okay to seek support.
Therapy is a courageous step towards self-love and empowerment. In our sessions, we can work together to:
Find Your Authentic Voice: Create a space where you can explore your identity and express yourself freely, without fear of judgment.
Heal from Trauma: Address the impact of racism, transphobia, and microaggressions on your mental health.
Build a Stronger Sense of Self: Develop the confidence to navigate the world as your authentic self.
Develop Healthy Coping Mechanisms: Learn tools to manage anxiety, depression, and the stress that comes from living at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities.
Cultivate Joy and Self-Acceptance: Discover the beauty and power in your identity, and learn to love yourself unconditionally.
You deserve to be seen, heard, and supported. If you’re ready to start your journey towards healing and self-discovery, we’re here for you.
At Resilient Mind Counseling, our commitment to you is unwavering. We believe:
Black Lives Matter.
Black is Beautiful.
Your Identity is Valid and Celebrated.
We are an anti-racist and affirming practice. This isn’t just a statement; it’s at the core of everything we do. We are dedicated to providing a safe, inclusive, and empowering space for therapy for Black non-binary individuals.
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