You Deserve a Therapist Who Understands Your World.

Finding a therapist is hard. Finding one who truly gets your experience, who understands what it means to navigate racial stress, generational wounds, cultural expectations, and the quiet exhaustion of showing up in spaces not built for you, is even harder.

You should not have to spend your therapy sessions educating your therapist about your culture. You should not have to code-switch in the one space meant for your healing. And you should not have to choose between honoring your faith and honoring your mental health.

At 180 Evolution Therapy, you do not have to do any of that. We are here. We get it. And we built this practice for you.

Therapy Built for BIPOC Communities

We specialize in serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color navigating the layered realities of identity, culture, and mental health. Our clients include: 

  • Black women carrying the weight of strong-friend syndrome, perfectionism, and the pressure to hold everything together for everyone else

  • BIPOC professionals navigating racial stress, microaggressions, and the emotional labor of existing in predominantly white spaces

  • Individuals processing racial trauma, historical trauma, and generational wounds passed down through family systems

  • BIPOC couples navigating cultural expectations, communication, and the unique pressures of building a life together

  • Older BIPOC adults navigating grief, life transitions, and a generation that was taught to handle pain privately

  • Faith-based individuals who want care that honors both their cultural identity and their relationship with God

  • People who have tried therapy before and felt unseen, misunderstood, or culturally mismatched

The Unique Weight BIPOC Individuals Carry

Mental health does not exist in a vacuum. For BIPOC individuals, the path to healing is shaped by forces that are real, systemic, and often invisible to those outside the experience.

  •  Racial battle fatigue - the cumulative stress of navigating racism, discrimination, and microaggressions

  • Strong Black woman syndrome - the cultural expectation to be strong, selfless, and unwavering at all times

  • Generational trauma - inherited patterns of pain, silence, and survival passed down through families

  • Cultural stigma - the community messaging that therapy is for white people, that faith should be enough, or that asking for help is a weakness

  • Code-switching exhaustion - the daily cognitive and emotional labor of adapting your identity to fit different environments

  • Institutional distrust — historical reasons to be skeptical of medical and mental health systems

These are not excuses. They are context. And they matter in therapy. A clinician who does not understand them cannot fully help you heal.

 

Our Approach to BIPOC-Affirming Therapy

Culturally Humble, Not Just Culturally Competent

Cultural competence is a floor, not a ceiling. We go further, approaching each client's cultural background, community, and lived experience with genuine humility, curiosity, and respect. We do not assume. We listen.

Faith-Integrated Care

For many BIPOC clients, faith is not separate from mental health; it is central to it. We honor your spiritual identity and offer care that integrates Biblical truth and faith principles for clients who desire it, without imposing it on those who do not.

Trauma-Informed Practice

We understand that trauma, including racial trauma and intergenerational trauma, lives in the body as much as the mind. Our trauma-informed approach addresses the whole person, including the somatic experience of carrying what has been passed down.

Evidence-Based Modalities

Our clinical care is grounded in proven methods, including CBT, DBT, ACT, Narrative Therapy, EFT, CFT, and somatic-informed approaches applied through a culturally affirming lens that honors your story.

A Space to Be Fully Yourself

You will not need to explain your culture, minimize your experience, or perform wellness here. You can be your whole self, including the parts that are complicated, exhausted, angry, or grieving

The 180° Method & BIPOC Healing

  • Mind - Dismantling the internalized narratives about strength, worth, and self that were never truly yours

  • Spirit - Honoring your faith as a genuine source of resilience, not a pressure to perform

  • Body - Releasing the racial stress, tension, and generational pain stored in your nervous system

  • Culture - Centering your cultural identity, community ties, and lived experience as essential context, not a sidebar

  • Growth - Building the tools, boundaries, and self-awareness to navigate a world that was not built with you in mind

  • Community - Healing the relational wounds within yourself, your family, and your community that have shaped your story

Meet Your Clinicians

Yazmeen N. Irving, LCMHC

Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor | Practice Owner

Yazmeen is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with deep roots in BIPOC-affirming care. She brings over two decades of lived wisdom, clinical expertise in CBT, DBT, ACT, somatic, and IFS-informed approaches, and a faith-integrated framework that honors the whole person. She is licensed in NC and SC and currently accepting new clients.

Lydia N. Thompson, LCSWA

Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate

Lydia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate specializing in BIPOC women, older adults, and couples. She brings personal lived experience as both a client and a clinician, and is trained in ACT, DBT, Narrative Therapy, EFT, CBT, and CFT. She is provisionally licensed under supervision and currently accepting new clients.

You Belong Here. Let's Begin.

You have spent long enough carrying this alone in spaces that did not see you, with people who did not get it. This is a different kind of space. Schedule your free 15-minute consultation today. No pressure, no commitment, just a conversation to see if we are the right fit for your healing.

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