WHO WE ARE

I founded Whole Family Healing Group in October of 2018.  I started seeing my very first client on April 20, 2019.  I had a vision of providing services to families, individuals, and children who were dealing with trauma, family, and relational conflict associated with mental health issues.  I recognized that when my mother lost her own mom to Breast Cancer, she was diagnosed shortly thereafter herself with the same Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer.  Looking back, I know now that my mom had sunk into a deep depression that remained un-diagnosed by medical professionals, although there were many signs.  My mother grew up in a home with both of her parents.  Her father, my grandfather whom I loved and adored, was not there for her emotionally due to some things that he had been dealing with throughout his life.  My grandmother did the best that she could to keep the household together; and had to do it alone because of her husband’s, my grandfather’s, alcohol addiction.  

My mom was a single mother, and raised me alone, all the while attending undergrad and graduate school, working full time, putting me through grade school and then college out of state in North Carolina.  She also made sure to be present at all of my extra-curricular activities, including all of my singing, acting, and dance recitals.  With all of these things going on throughout my childhood, there was never any mention of mental health, grief, or anything related amongst my family.  There was also no discussion of a safe place for anyone in the family to go together or individually, to talk about and process life issues, feelings, emotions, or the effects single parenting had to have had on their emotional and psychological well-being.  However, as I got older, my mom did send me to a therapist to help me with some changes that she had seen in me as a little girl.  I appreciate my mom to this day for being so forward-thinking and loving me enough to give me something that she may not have fully understood or experienced for herself.