Meet Our Online Therapists: Specialists in Individual Therapy for Communities of Color

The SHIFT Standard: Why Our Therapists Are Different

At SHIFT Your Journey Mental Health Counseling, therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all and it isn’t just conversation. Our therapists are selected for their ability to listen deeply, honor your lived experience, and guide you with proven strategies that create real change.

Every SHIFT therapist is:

  • Carefully chosen for their clinical training and professional excellence

  • Actively pursuing advanced certifications in anxiety, trauma, depressive disorders, ADHD, and more

  • Trained to deliver care that is culturally rooted, evidence-based, and transformation-focused

This means that your care is guided by expertise that continues to grow because healing deserves more than surface-level solutions. We help clients work through anxiety, depression, emotional fatigue, and identity-related challenges using evidence-based modalities like CBT, mindfulness, and narrative therapy. all adapted to honor your cultural context. SHIFT Your Journey Mental Health Counseling offers virtual therapy for individuals living across New York, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Texas. You can access care from the privacy of your home. Our team includes Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and multicultural clinicians who bring lived experience and clinical expertise into every session. Whether you’re navigating racial trauma, intergenerational stress, or identity development, we’re here to hold space and offer tools that work.

  • Grace Addow-Langlais, LMHC-D, LPC, QS, MPA, MSEd.

    FOUNDER + CEO

  • Kacia Cameron, MA., LMHC

    CLINICAL SUPERVISOR

    LOCATION: NY + CT

  • Sharmistha Chakraborty, MA, MHC-I

    MULTILINGUAL THERAPIST

    LOCATION: NY

  • Cynthia (Cindy) Mullen, M.S., LMHC-D

    CLINICAL SUPERVISOR

    LOCATION: CT + NY + FL

  • Patricia "Trish" Pennix, MBA, LMHC

    CLINICAL SUPERVISOR

    LOCATION: NY

  • Guadalupe Vidal, M.S., LMHC

    BILINGUAL CLINICAL SUPERVISOR (Spanish + English)

    LOCATION: CT + NY

  • Juliet Adom, MSEd., MHC-LP

    MULTILINGUAL THERAPIST (Ga and Twi)

    LOCATION: NY

  • Parola Alcanthe, MHC-LP, LPCA

    MULTILINGUAL THERAPIST (English, Creole and French)

    LOCATION: NY

  • Vanessa Campbell, LPCA, MHC-LP

    THERAPIST

    LOCATION: CT + NY

  • Edilys Encarnacion, BA, MHC-I

    BILLINGUAL ASSOCIATE THERAPIST

    LOCATION: NY

  • Dodrie Escoffery, MPA, MSEd., MHC-LP

    THERAPIST

    LOCATION: NY

  • Jyoti Grover, MA, MS, LPCA, MHC-LP

    THERAPIST

    LOCATIONS: CT + NY

  • Carlyle Henry, MA, MHC-LP

    BILINGUAL THERAPIST (English and Haitian Creole)

    LOCATION: NY

  • Monique-Jessica Martinez ,MBA, LPCA

    THERAPIST

    LOCATION: CT

  • Mary Mfum, M.S., MHC-LP

    BILINGUAL THERAPIST (English and Twi)

    LOCATION: NY

  • Kristy Paz, LPCA, MHC-LP

    Kristy Paz, LPCA, MHC-LP

    BILINGUAL THERAPIST (English and Spanish)

    LOCATION: CT + NY

  • Niome Nelson, MHC-LP

    THERAPIST

    LOCATION: NY

  • Althea Pettigrew, MS., MHC-LP

    THERAPIST

    LOCATION: NY

  • Tiauna Washington, MSEd., MHC-I

    ASSOCIATE THERAPIST

    LOCATION: NY

  • Antionette Wells, MHC-LP, LPC

    THERAPIST

    LOCATION: NY + TX

  • Alexa Bahadur, BA, MHC-I

    ASSOCIATE THERAPIST

    LOCATION: NY

Hear Why Clients Choose SHIFT

  • Real transformation and growth

    “ I just wanted to say thank you for the service that you have provided for during these past months. Mentally, I have made dramatic progress and it's all due to Shift. I appreciate this company very much and I wish you nothing but continued success. Again, thank you very much.”

    -SHIFT CLIENT

  • Don't just survive, thrive!

    "So far my mental wellness journey has been going amazing. When I initially began I was at home with my baby. Then I started working part-time and now I have transitioned to full-time. I am grateful to have come across this agency so that I was able to connect with my SHIFT Therapist. Thank you again for creating a space for a black professional woman who wears many capes to feel embraced and seen.”

    -SHIFT CLIENT

  • Feeling seen and understood

    “I appreciate my therapist so much. It felt like having a older sibling who understands me and the crazy things I grew up with.”

    -SHIFT CLIENT

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You deserve care that sees and supports all of who you are.
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