Anisa Brazier - Coral Heart Counseling

Psychotherapist and Community Engagement Specialist

I believe that everyone deserves to have a sanctioned space where they can prioritize their needs and goals, in order to process past and present experiences. In a society where we are expected to be happy and not allowed to experience a full range of emotions, I want to ensure that my clients will feel affirmed in their feelings, while simultaneously challenging them to analyze their roots. As a clinician, my primary goal is to support my clients in healing from the inside out and tailor the therapeutic relationship to each individual’s need, while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of community, connection, and collaboration to ultimately achieve liberation.

I obtained my Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology degree from Loyola University and my Master’s of Counseling Psychology from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology where I concentrated in Latinx/BIPOC mental health. I have experience serving individuals (16+), as well as couples, and have provided community mental health based counseling services to adult clients with a history of sexual trauma or abuse. I also have experience in supporting clients through the following: sexual health/wellness, life transitions, grief, anxiety, depression, identity development (including sexual identity), and racial trauma. Finally, I currently serve as a co-chair on the BIPOC Committee for ACSSW (Association of Counseling Sexology & Sexual Wellness).

Within the therapeutic space, I utilize an integrative relational-cultural and trauma informed approach. I intend to provide a sacred, non-judgmental, and collaborative environment where client’s have the support to explore their past, present, and future selves. I specialize in working with clients who may experience anxiety, depression, trauma/stress-related concerns, sexual trauma, relationship stress, and sexual/gender identity. I look forward to being a co-pilot on your journey towards healing!

Contract and Consultant Work

My passion is being a healer to those who have found themselves feeling emotionally injured, stuck, unheard, and undeserving. As a licensed psychotherapist and mental health professional, I utilize my knowledge of mental wellness, clinical therapeutic techniques, antiracism, and social justice to empower and assist in the growth of individuals, groups, communities, schools, and workspaces. I do this by providing therapy, workshops, healing circles, and consulting services. Because much of my work has been with people who have been impacted by historical, generational, and/or systemic trauma, my framework and clinical therapeutic techniques are culturally, developmentally, systemically, and trauma informed.

While I earned my Master’s Degree in Social Work at Erikson Institute, I was able to gain extensive knowledge about working with many age groups and communities. Hence, I started my career as a therapist by providing psychotherapy to children and adolescents, and by collaborating with their families and school providers to implement mental wellness services, strengthen bonds, and improve school success rates. After some time, I noticed how many of the adolescents I worked with were struggling to smoothly transition into college. I also noticed how children were heavily impacted by biased rules and policies created by the adults in their lives who had their own emotional battles to resolve. As a result, I started to work with young adults and adult mental health. My transition was because I discovered that one factor that influences a young person’s overall health is the mental wellness, perspectives, and intentions of those who are leading them.

When working with others, I provide a warm, caring, non-judgment, and compassionate experience, while centering the voices of those who are most vulnerable and marginalized in society. I see everyone as a human being who is trying to do the best that they can with the knowledge that they currently have. However, I also see each person as being capable of growth and realigning themselves

for the betterment of society. Consequently, my goal is to continue assisting in transforming thought processes and experiences so that our best traits as human beings can show and impact each other in a positive way. I also work to reshape challenges and traumatic moments into learning opportunities and relief. This is so that people can eventually see troubling times as just memories, as opposed to triggering incidents that might influence their decisions and actions. Ultimately, my hope is that the guidance, strategies, and skills I provide, rooted in mental wellness, can aid in healing, growth, true freedom of the mind, and feeling at ease.

Current contract and consultancy offers include:

Providing specialized cultural and trauma-informed care, guidance, and coaching.
Leading teams, groups, and workshops to provide education and information on the various components of mental health and wellness practices.
Assisting in the healing of collective emotional injuries and pain points of small and large groups.
Facilitating healing and restorative justice circles to bring about a sense of peace, belonging, and compassion.
Interceding with crisis intervention to rapidly emotionally stabilize individuals, families, groups, and communities.
Collaborating with entities to carefully analyze existing systems in place in order to truly identify if spaces, policies, and procedures account for inclusivity and mental wellness, as well as support historically devalued, underrepresented, underserved, and vulnerable populations.
Creating thoughtful conversations and workshops amongst individuals, teams, and leaders in order to work toward understanding the self, internal workings, and how one interacts and influences the world around them and people whom they steer.
Providing guidance and strategic plans to incorporate wellness programs and inclusive environments.

Therapeutic Techniques used:

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization Individual and Group (ASSYST-I and ASSYST-G)
EMDR Protocol for Recent Critical Incidents and Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR-PRECI)
EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol for Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR-IGTP-OTS)
Mindfulness and Mind-Body techniques
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Psychodynamic individual and group processing therapy
Psychoeducation on societal systems, mental health, and wellness

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