Philadelphia Area Therapists Finding and Encouraging Others to Share Their Truth
Our Team
Lavonda Handy, LMFT
Founder/Therapist
My ideal client, whether individuals, couples, or family, are people looking to connect with themselves and others authentically. Those relationships are the most connected in love and the continued discovery of their true selves.
My ideal client, whether individuals, couples, or family, are people looking to connect with themselves and others authentically. Those relationships are the most connected in love and the continued discovery of their true selves.
"Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others." - Marian Wright Edelman
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Emily Close, LMFT
Licensed Therapist
I love to help clients dealing with anxiety as they work through life phases. I believe in helping clients to recognize their inherent worth, strengths and to evaluate what is accessible to them.
I love to help clients dealing with anxiety as they work through life phases. I believe in helping clients to recognize their inherent worth, strengths and to evaluate what is accessible to them.
"Where you are. is not who you are.- circumstances"
- Nayyirah Waheed, salt
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Exie Adams, LMFT
Licensed Therapist
My passion is helping women of color as I believe they are the backbone of our society and are deserving of all the support, healing, and empowerment.
My passion is helping women of color as I believe they are the backbone of our society and are deserving of all the support, healing, and empowerment.
"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
- Angela Davis
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Eliza Farran, MFT
Licensed Associate Therapist
I enjoy collaborating with people who are managing the history and impacts of loneliness, trauma, and anxiety, and who wish to work toward greater joy and connection; to themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.
I enjoy collaborating with people who are managing the history and impacts of loneliness, trauma, and anxiety, and who wish to work toward greater joy and connection; to themselves, their loved ones, and their communities.
“When we can see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love…whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.”
-Bell Hooks
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Natasha Brown, LPC
Licensed Therapist
My ideal client is diverse, dynamic, curious, collaborative, creative, passionate, and often misunderstood adults.
My ideal client is diverse, dynamic, curious, collaborative, creative, passionate, and often misunderstood adults.
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Maya Angelou
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Annabelle Fuchs, PC
Licensed Associate Therapist
I take pleasure assisting my clients develop a deeper understanding of their emotional and social experiences, as well as their relationship to the world around them, in order to uncover and work to sustain a more connected, empowered, and peaceful life.
I take pleasure assisting my clients develop a deeper understanding of their emotional and social experiences, as well as their relationship to the world around them, in order to uncover and work to sustain a more connected, empowered, and peaceful life.
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”
-Lao Tzu
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Abigail Smith
Intern Therapist
I love to help clients who are navigating complexities within their relational connections and supporting families as they journey through the unique challenges and joys of raising children with neurodiverse needs. I want to help clients learn, explore, and grow together in finding fulfilling connections.
I love to help clients who are navigating complexities within their relational connections and supporting families as they journey through the unique challenges and joys of raising children with neurodiverse needs. I want to help clients learn, explore, and grow together in finding fulfilling connections.
“Our relations with one another are like a stone arch, which would collapse if the stones did not mutually support each other, and which is upheld in this very way.”
-Seneca
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