Affirming Therapy · Arizona, Minnesota & Ohio

Healing that holds all of you.

Trauma-informed, culturally grounded therapy for Black folks, LGBTQIA+ communities, neurodivergent minds, and every relationship configuration you've built on purpose. Your whole self isn't just tolerated here — it's the starting point.

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Therapy for Black Girls Featured Provider Open Path Collective Member Loveland Foundation Vouchers Neurodivergent Affirming LGBTQIA+ & ENM Affirming Telehealth · AZ, MN & OH

About

Healing through connection, culture, and science

I'm Vickey Simmons-Hart — a Licensed Professional Counselor, lifelong learner, and deeply curious human who believes the most powerful healing happens when people stop being asked to choose between their identity and their recovery.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent years as an educator, adult learning specialist, and community advocate. Those roles still shape how I show up in the room: equal parts teacher and student of the human experience. Inclusive Mental Wellness is the result of lived experience and clinical intention — a space where Black folks, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and anyone carrying the weight of survival can lay it down, even for a moment, and be seen as whole.

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Trained In

EMDR · Brainspotting · Internal Family Systems · Somatic Work · CBT / DBT · EFT · SFBT · Trauma-Informed Care

Credentials

LPC · Licensed in Arizona, Minnesota & Ohio
NCC · Nationally Certified Counselor
MA Education · MS Counseling

Who I Work With

If you've ever had to leave part of yourself outside the room —

This is therapy where the whole of you isn't just welcome. It's the entire point.

Trauma Survivors

Healing from complex trauma, racial trauma, abuse, neglect, and sexual assault — with approaches that honor your nervous system and your story equally.

LGBTQIA+ Individuals

Navigating identity, sexuality, gender exploration, or relationship structures — including ethically non-monogamous relationships — in a fully affirming space.

Black & BIPOC Folks

Culturally grounded care that understands the particular weight of navigating systemic racism, racial grief, and the labor of existing in spaces not built for you.

Neurodivergent Adults

Affirming support for ADHD, autism, and neurodivergent experiences — because the world's defaults aren't yours to apologize for.

High-Functioning Burnout

For the ones who look like they have it together — and are quietly exhausted by the performance of having it together.

Sex-Positive, ENM & Kink-Affirming

A fully affirming space for sex-positive individuals, non-monogamous relationships, and kink-identified folks who deserve a clinician who won't pathologize, flinch, or make you justify the life you've intentionally built.

What We Offer

Evidence-based care, culturally centered

A growing menu of individual, relational, and intensive services — because healing doesn't come in one size.

Individual Therapy

Personalized, trauma-informed therapy for adults carrying life's heaviest terrain.

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Relationship Counseling

Affirming support for every relationship configuration — dyads, triads, and polycules alike.

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Conflict Facilitation

A clinician-held space for repair — for partners, co-parents, chosen family, and more.

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Relationship Contract Facilitation

Guided sessions to help partners articulate values, agreements, and boundaries.

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EMDR & Brainspotting Intensives

Compressed, focused trauma processing for when weekly sessions aren't enough.

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Groups & Workshops

Healing in community — process groups and psychoeducational series, forming now.

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Not sure where to start?

A 15-minute consultation is always free — no pressure, just a conversation.

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Thought Leadership

The Journal

Introduction April 2025

Why I Built a Practice Where All of You Is Welcome

An introduction to the practice, the philosophy, and the people this space was built for.

Read on Substack → Wellness Tools April 2025

Journal Tips for People Who Hate Journaling

You don't have to write a paragraph to get the benefits of journaling.

Read on Substack → Trauma & Healing April 2025

Your Nervous System Needs Music

A curated playlist guide for grounding, reprocessing prep, and nervous system regulation.

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Trusted Referrals

The network behind the network

LaShunda Armstrong

LCSW · Abundance AZ

Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and Brainspotting. A trusted colleague bringing deep clinical skill and cultural awareness.

abundanceaz.com →

Paperflower Psychiatry

Dr. Maria Ingalla, DNP, PMHNP-BC

Arizona's most progressive psychiatric practice — affirming, integrative, and forward-thinking.

paperflowerpsychiatry.com →

Lindsay Love

LCSW · Therapy Luv

Evidence-based practices, affirming care, committed to anti-oppression work and clinical excellence.

therapyluv.com →

Shereen Breuer

MSW, LCSW, CCTP · Rooted Alma

EMDR, Ecotherapy, Organic Intelligence, and Psychedelic Integration Therapy. Beautifully grounded work.

rootedalma.com →