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Rise Counseling Group

Therapeutic space for Women of Color to heal and rise.

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      • Camielle Howard, LSW, CSW, MPH
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❤️‍🩹Helping Black Women & Teens
⛓️‍💥Break unhealthy cycles in relationships
🛑Stop carrying everyone’s emotional weight
📍Accepting clients- OH, IL, KY

Peace doesn’t come from forcing yourself to be d Peace doesn’t come from forcing yourself to be different or pushing past what you feel.
It grows when you soften toward who you already are when compassion replaces self-criticism and curiosity replaces judgment.

Healing isn’t about fixing yourself.
It’s about creating enough safety inside to meet your experiences with kindness.

At Rise Counseling Group, we believe growth happens when you’re supported, understood, and allowed to be human exactly as you are.

Gentleness is not giving up.
It’s where healing begins.

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You don’t need to wait until burnout hits to ask You don’t need to wait until burnout hits to ask for support.

So many of the women and teens we work with learned early how to be strong to hold it together, push through, and handle things alone. That strength helped you survive. And you don’t have to stay in survival mode forever.

Therapy is a space to unlearn carrying everything by yourself and begin healing with support. It’s where regulation replaces constant stress, boundaries replace overgiving, and emotional safety becomes possible.

At Rise Counseling Group, we provide trauma-informed therapy for Black women and teens that truly meets you where you are without judgment, pressure, or rushing the process.

You’re allowed to be supported. You don’t have to do this alone.
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Support isn’t about fixing you. It’s about hel Support isn’t about fixing you.
It’s about helping you feel steady, seen, and supported especially when life feels overwhelming.

Many Black women and teens have been taught to “be strong,” push through, or handle everything on their own. But real support looks different. It looks like having space to breathe, process, and learn tools that help you cope with stress, anxiety, and emotional overwhelm without judgment.

Trauma-informed therapy centers your experiences, respects your boundaries, and meets you where you are. It’s not about changing who you are it’s about helping you feel more grounded, confident, and supported as you move through life.

You don’t have to carry it all by yourself.
Support is available and you deserve it.

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Many Black women and teens are taught to push thro Many Black women and teens are taught to push through to be strong, to keep going, to carry everything quietly.

But strength isn’t ignoring exhaustion.
It isn’t silencing anxiety.
And it definitely isn’t handling overwhelm alone.

Therapy creates space to pause.
To exhale.
To say the things you’ve been holding in without fear of judgment or dismissal.

At Rise Counseling Group, we don’t rush your healing or tell you to “just be resilient.”
We walk with you at your pace, honoring your story, your emotions, and your capacity.

You don’t have to wait until everything falls apart to reach for support.
You’re allowed to ask now. 💛

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Aliyah's dedication to Black women, teen girls, an Aliyah's dedication to Black women, teen girls, and young adults goes far beyond her hours. She's not just a therapist, she's a leader who is actively shaping the future of mental health care.

Aliyah, RCG wouldn't be what it is without you. Here's to four years and so many more. 

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