Faith-Based Counseling for Black Women in LA

It’s not just burnout. It’s   self-abandonment. And it ends here. 

You lead at work. You serve at church.


And somewhere along the way, your own emotional needs were silenced, buried beneath spiritual guilt and the pressure to hold it all together.

You show up with grace. You’re the one everyone turns to. But who holds you?

This is your invitation to stop performing strength and start receiving care, without guilt, without striving, and without losing who God called you to be.

You start the day bracing for impact, holding space for your team, your family, your church, but not for you.

• You’re the one people call when they need support, encouragement, answers. But when the weight gets heavy, you carry it alone.

• You know how to lead. You know how to show up. But lately, you feel a growing distance from your own joy, your own body, your own voice.

• You’ve been pushing through the burnout, spiritual silence, and quiet resentment.



• You tell yourself to pray harder. Be grateful. Keep going. But you’re not just tired. You’re soul-tired—deep down in your bones tired.
  

And that exhaustion comes with a cost.

The cost of emotional silence.

The cost of never asking for help because everyone expects you to be okay.
The cost of feeling like rest, softness, and slowness are luxuries you haven’t earned.

You’ve tried journaling. Downloaded devotionals. Followed mindset coaches. Meditated. Hustled. Pushed. You’ve even considered therapy—but worried that needing help would mean your faith isn’t strong enough. 

And in the few moments you do slow down, the feelings come rushing in—so you keep going. Because busy feels safer than broken.

If that’s where you are, you’re not broken. You’re just ready for something deeper. Something that honors your strength and your softness. Something that lets you finally be held, not just helpful.

If that’s where you are, it doesn’t mean you’re failing or broken, it means you’re awakening

You’re ready for a new way of showing up. One that honors both your strength and your softness. One that lets you be supported, not just relied on. One where you don’t have to shrink or strive to be seen.

But the idea of slowing down feels risky.

 You’ve been told to “set boundaries,” “just pray about it,” or “take a spa day”—but those surface-level fixes don’t touch the soul-deep weariness you carry.

They don’t help when the pressure never really lets up.

And maybe you’re afraid that if you do ask for help, someone might think you’re not as capable or put-together as they believed. Maybe you’ll start to believe it, too.

This is where high-achieving women of color finally exhale. Because your breakthrough won’t come from striving, it comes from being deeply seen.

Here is can I help you

Your awakening is only beginning, and these are your next steps

You’re not burned out because you’re broken

You’re burned out because you’ve been living by toxic rules that were never yours.

Free guide

If you’ve been running on overdrive, pouring from an empty cup, and still feeling like it’s not enough—this is your wake-up call. These five hidden beliefs are draining your energy, dimming your voice, and disconnecting you from yourself.

Let’s name them. Reclaim you. And stop the cycle—for good.

Hi, I’m Dr. Jacquelyn Johnson—but you can call me Dr. J.

I’m a licensed psychologist, narrative shifter, and safe space specialist for high-achieving women who are tired of holding it all together.

With a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology, over a decade of experience, and a sixth sense for spotting burnout behind a polished smile, I’ve helped hundreds of brilliant women break free from the roles, rules, and “shoulds” that were never really theirs.

My mission? Helping strong women stop white-knuckling their way through life and finally feel seen, held, and whole.

I created this practice because I saw too many capable, faithful women quietly drowning in perfectionism, people-pleasing, and pressure. (Spoiler: Being “the strong one” doesn’t mean you don’t need support.)

Around here, we believe rest is radical, wholeness over hustle, and you don’t have to prove your worth to be worthy.

When I’m not deep in conversation about emotional liberation, you’ll find me blasting Yacht Rock like I’m a backup singer for Michael McDonald, watching makeup looks by the girlies on YouTube that I’ll never try to recreate, or weirdly obsessed with wilderness survival videos (don’t ask—I can’t explain it either).

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I’ve helped high-achieving women of color step out of survival mode and into sacred alignment, with their values, their emotions, and their God-given wholeness.

And I’m ready for you to be the next one. Let’s begin the work of coming home to you.

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