Culturally affirming counseling that honors and integrates the diverse experiences and backgrounds for women of color.
At Kaneel Esthetic Therapy, we are dedicated to providing a safe, welcoming environment where women of color can explore their experiences and heal. Our approach centers on honoring your unique story while incorporating culturally responsive practices to foster personal growth and lasting well-being. By blending compassion with professional expertise, we strive to support you on your journey toward empowerment, resilience, and emotional health.
Taifa McLarin’s professional background encompasses a range of settings, including hospice care, social service agencies, and private practice environments. Through these diverse roles, she has gained valuable experience working with clients across the lifespan, from children as young as 8 years old to adults up to 100 years of age. Her clinical work includes providing therapy to individuals, couples, families, and groups.
Taifa now focuses on supporting adult female BIPOC clients by addressing mental health concerns, fostering resilience, and empowering women to navigate personal and systemic challenges. She is deeply committed to advancing cultural competence in her practice and advocating for the mental health needs of marginalized communities. Her current work emphasizes promoting holistic wellbeing and providing culturally responsive care that honors each client’s unique background.
Taifa employs a multicultural and multimodal approach, specifically designed for adult female BIPOC clients. Her counseling practice is grounded in an integrative framework that draws from several therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Black Psychology, and Black Feminist Therapy. By weaving together these approaches, Taifa ensures that each client’s cultural identity and holistic wellbeing are at the forefront of the counseling process. This integrative method allows her to address the unique experiences and needs of her clients, supporting their journey toward healing from a perspective that honors their entire life experience.
Manage anxiety caused by societal pressures, discrimination, and the stress of juggling many roles. Through guided support, you’ll discover effective strategies to calm your mind and regain a sense of control.
Address ongoing feelings of sadness, fatigue, or hopelessness in a safe and supportive space. Explore how cultural background and life experiences affect your emotional health and create a personalized pathway for healing.
Receive guidance as you navigate significant life changes, whether it’s career moves, relationship shifts, motherhood, menopause, or other milestones. You’ll build resilience and gain clarity to adapt confidently to new chapters in your life.
Tackle self-esteem, image, health, gender issues, and work-life balance. Recognize the unique challenges women face and understand the connection between societal expectations and your personal identity.
Taifa is a knowledgeable, patient, and empathetic therapist who provides resources and exercises in addition to a listening ear and thoughtful contemplation. I came to her broken and traumatized as the result of severe workplace bullying and overcome by grief after losing loved ones. It is not easy to navigate this world as a woman of color. It is even more difficult having to translate those experiences while in therapy with counselors who will never know what it is like to have this existence. That is what is so special about Taifa. Not only is she an AMAZING counselor, she walks in the same dark skin. She does not unconsciously belittle my experiences because she knows how Black women are treated and dedicates her career to helping to restore our dignity. I highly recommend her services.
Taifa McLarin is the absolute best. As a working single mother, heavy with obligation to many other people, I didn’t know where to start until I met her. She patiently helped me dig myself out of the darkness, step by step into an amazing life of balance and peace of mind. Following her guidance, the results have been permanent and consistent. Now I see her as needed. It gives me peace knowing I can always schedule if I need support finding my way into new seasons of life.
Words cannot express the gratitude I have for Taifa, but I will try anyway. Taifa is extremely welcoming, compassionate and really helped me navigate my anxiety. She really helped guide me to figuring out who l am and being comfortable with that. I am an anxious person, and I have a lot of ticks, but Taifa showed me that instead of hating those parts about myself or trying to fix it, why not meet myself where l am and accommodate myself. For example, there are certain sounds that will send me into a frenzy, so l will never leave my house without a pair of headphones and I'm not afraid to put them in. Or if I get overstimulated, instead of staying in the overstimulating environment because I am ashamed at how I feel, I've learned to allow myself to temporarily remove myself from the environment to recollect myself. She's taught me that it's okay to do those things. I can definitely say that since seeing Taifa, I have learned so much about myself and how to navigate my emotions and since then, my life has gotten so much better.
culturally affirming counseling that honors and integrates the diverse experiences and backgrounds for women of color.
