Provider Spotlight
“Usually, women and couples are inundated with information when trying to conceive, experiencing an emotional crisis, expecting, or postpartum. We understand the fear and emotional toll Black women and couples experience when giving birth due to high maternal mortality rates. This is why we believe in providing mental health services to women so they can navigate their birth and postpartum experience without fear, whether it’s their first child, a pregnancy after a loss, or a pregnancy after experience perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. ”
Meet Raising Resilience, a mental wellness business dedicated to educating the Black community to build strong families. They offer individual, couples, and group therapy to women and families transitioning to parenthood and navigating issues such as infertility, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, birth trauma, and infant loss in North Carolina and Washington DC
Raising Resilience is comprised of two dynamic Therapists, Whitney Coble and Tiffany Bishop.
Whitney is certified in perinatal mental health, birth trauma, cognitive behavioral therapy, Perinatal EMDR and specializes in helping the everyday woman improve her ability to cope with everyday challenges.
“As a woman, I understand the pressures society places on women as they navigate their careers, family dynamics, relationships, and everyday life.”
Black maternal health and reproductive education is a strong passion of Whitney’s. This passion fuels her work as she serves women who are trying to conceive, have fertility issues, experienced infant loss, transitioned to motherhood, or have mental health challenges during postpartum.
Tiffany
Tiffany is one half of Raising Resilience. She is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with certifications in Trauma-Focused CBT and perinatal mental health. Tiffany specializes in Black maternal mental health, and serves women trying to conceive, transitioning to parenthood, experiencing fertility issues, or experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
Tiffany shared, “As a mother, I understand the challenges of raising a child and making those decisions; therefore, I am passionate about guiding women in this vulnerable time.”
Tiffany and Whitney can truly relate to working with Black millennial-aged people who invest in their self-care at higher rates, but often have less safe emotional space for their reproductive health.
Whitney
Whitney shared, “I don’t show up as my best self when I neglect myself, especially in my emotional self-care. I love our work at Raising Resilience, but I’ve learned how to balance my career and self-care.For example, I became providing my emotional self-care by relaxing, prioritizing time for non-productive activities, and allowing myself to be in the moment.”
As Tiffany acknowledges, “recharging looks different for me, depending on the day. I constantly check in with myself to determine my needs. Sometimes taking care of myself is spending time on home with my family, going on dates with my husband, talking to my girlfriends, or curling up in my bed with a good book.”
Tiffany and Whitney, we thank you for all you do for your community. If you want to connect with Tiffany and Whitney cwhat their website and social media channels:
Website: www.weareraisingresilience.org
Instagram: @raising.resilience
Twitter: @raisingres
Group Leader Spotlight
“I remember how isolated and overwhelmed I was in my first year of motherhood. I had a new baby that I loved, but I didn’t have the support, tools, or language to adequately communicate my needs to my family and partner. I’m drowning and I need a life vest. PMAD groups are the saving grace for many people during pregnancy or postpartum. They are an outlet for those seeking help and a comforting place where those seeking help can lay their burdens and feel heard by peers.
Meet Taleah Bryant, one of our online support group leaders. Taleah started volunteering as a group leader in 2021 where she supports those seeking help attending our parents of one to four year old children, termination for medical reasons, while mainly leading those perinatal mood disorder and Black moms connect groups.
Taleah shared that the Black Moms Connect group is important because Black mothers are one of the high-stress parenting groups due to lack of resources and support, systemic racism, biases from medical providers, environmental stressors, etc. Our experience is unique, so it’s important to have a group where black mothers can find community and talk about issues and concerns with people who can relate and look like them.”
Taleah thank you for all you do for the many help seekers who reach out to PSI for understanding and support.
