You Rehearse Harder than Anyone in That Room
The rehearsing gets quieter, and enjoying what you’ve built becomes the point.
Trauma-informed therapy for high-achieving women of color. Licensed in New York.
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You Have Been Studying the Wrong Thing
You decided a while ago that the problem was your confidence.
So you prepare more.
The room gets read before you speak in it, and the sentence gets run twice before it leaves your mouth.
The preparation is excellent. And you’re still tired of being tired.
The seat is yours, and you are still auditioning for it.
The Arithmetic You Run Before You Speak
For Black, Hispanic/Latina, Caribbean and other women of color, achievement can come with pressures that others don’t always see. Being in a space where you’re the only one who looks like you adds math to every minute of it.
Am I making more of this than it is?
You are not. And the carrying takes your evenings, long after everyone else has gone to sleep.
Belonging in the room should not cost you this much of yourself.
Your Watchfulness Has a History
Preparing for everything once helped you feel safe. Keeping the peace meant staying quiet, and being capable meant handling it alone.
Here we look at where that started, catch the thought that sets off the rehearsing, and build a way to steady yourself when it spikes.
I’m an interactive therapist, so what we explore here connects to what happened in your actual week.
Therapy That Follows You into the Room
You’ll know it’s working by what happens in the room, and by how much of you is left at the end of it.
- Speak in the meeting without drafting the sentence first.
- Walk into the room without wondering whether you belong there.
- Hear a comment land without replaying it for an hour.
- Set the boundary you’ve been afraid to set, and leave it set.
- Steady yourself when the feeling spikes instead of outrunning it.
You keep the ambition, the responsibility and the care, and they stop costing you your peace.
Your Work Here Moves in Three Phases
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Release
We slow things down and get honest about what’s weighing on you. You don’t have to arrive with the perfect words.
We start with where you are.
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Refine
We begin connecting the dots between the pressure and the patterns underneath it, then we turn insight into practice.
Practice something different.
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Rise
You live what you’ve been learning, with room for your own needs, your relationships, and your sense of purpose.
You meet hard days as yourself.
I’ll Give You Something to Practice
A Therapist Who Asks Before She Assumes
A Brooklyn native with Hispanic Caribbean roots, an LMHC-D, a wife and a mom: I appreciate how many roles women hold, and I want to know what yours mean to you.
Tangible Work You Can Actually Do
You leave with something to practice, and the tools we practice together become tools you can make your own.
Faith Comes in Only if You Ask
If biblical principles matter to you, they can be part of the work, and if they don’t, nothing here depends on them.
Hi, I’m Vanessa.
Licensed School Counselor, LMHC-D, and Founder of Jubilee Gold Coaching, I offer a space that doesn’t come along too often in therapy: a space you can trust to take care of you and honor who you are.
The therapy is genuine and culturally informed, with a warm spirit that seeks to understand your deepest needs. I’m here to make sense of the mess with empathy, and to clear the noise with sound, evidence-based strategies personal to you. Not one-size-fits-all.
What’s working and what went wrong both get my close attention. That’s how I guide you, recognizing what keeps you in the same ol’ same ol’ and how your strengths can propel you forward.
Pushing through is something I know too, and I wish I’d had that one person to support me along the way. Let your season of overwhelm be over too.
Vanessa HerreraLMHC-D
Frequently Asked Questions
Then I ask. My own roots shape how I listen, your experience stays yours to describe, and women of every background have a place here.
Yes. You can name what happened in the room without softening it first, and you won’t be asked to prove it to me.
Trauma-informed, drawing on CBT, DBT and psychodynamic therapy. In plain terms: we trace where a pattern started, work on the thinking that keeps it running, and build skills for the moments it spikes.
Early change tends to show up in the self-monitoring, while the older patterns take longer. We track it together so you can see what’s moving.
Your life doesn’t have to fall apart before you’re allowed to want something different. Doing well and wanting more room for yourself are true on the same day.
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You Don’t Have to Earn Care by Reaching Your Breaking Point
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Everyone thinks you’re doing fine. And you are.
You don’t need to know exactly what to say. Your story doesn’t have to arrive organized. And nothing commits you simply because we talked.
Bring your full self, your culture, your voice, your roots, and the parts you’ve felt you had to edit to fit in.
It’s time to live, sis.
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