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Kind Mind Psychology exists because too many people have been failed by a mental health system that wasn’t built with them in mind.
I founded this practice because I spent years watching the same thing happen over and over: brilliant, complex, resilient people walking into therapy only to find clinicians who didn’t understand their culture, their identity, their relationships, or their pain. People who needed help but couldn’t afford it. People who could afford it but couldn’t find anyone who actually got them. People in underserved communities who had been told, in a hundred different ways, that quality care wasn’t for them.
That was never acceptable to me. So I built something different.
Kind Mind Psychology was founded on a single mission: to reduce mental health care disparities as they relate to both access and quality of care. Access means you can actually get in the door. It means we accept insurance, offer a sliding scale starting as low as $25 per session, and see clients virtually so geography doesn’t become another barrier. Quality means that once you’re here, you’re working with clinicians who are deeply trained, culturally competent, and equipped to serve you well, not clinicians who are learning on your time
I was trained with a population-based approach, meaning I was taught to have the capacity to treat anyone who walked through my door. Outpatient, inpatient, forensic. Adolescents, adults, older adults. People experiencing homelessness, people running companies, people somewhere in between. I’ve carried that philosophy into every hiring decision and every training I provide at Kind Mind. Every clinician on our team is trained to serve a broad population, and every clinician on our team has developed specialization in the areas where the gaps in care are widest.
That means our team brings deep expertise in working with BIPOC individuals navigating racial stress, discrimination, and cultural identity. It means we know how to serve LGBTQ+ clients without requiring them to educate us first. It means people in polyamorous, ENM, and kink communities can talk openly about their relationships without watching their therapist’s face for a reaction. And it means that if you don’t identify with any of those communities, you are just as welcome here. We are for everyone, and that is not a contradiction. Being excellent at serving underserved populations doesn’t narrow our scope. It deepens it.
Our team works with anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, trauma and complex PTSD, dissociative identity disorder (DID), personality disorders, emotional dysregulation, low self-esteem, grief, relationship challenges, and life transitions. We see clients ages 12 and up.
We take an integrated approach to care because people don’t show up in neat diagnostic categories. You might come in for anxiety and realize there’s unprocessed trauma underneath it. You might come in for couples work and discover that your individual patterns need attention too. We’re equipped to hold all of it and help you figure out where to start.
Our clinicians are trained in a wide range of evidence-based and psychodynamic approaches, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Radically Open DBT (RO-DBT), EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Schema Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. We match the approach to the person, not the other way around.
We offer individual therapy, couples therapy for all relationship structures, family therapy, group therapy, sex therapy (I am an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist), teen therapy, and executive functioning coaching.
Every clinician at Kind Mind was hired because they share this practice’s values: clinical rigor, cultural humility, and a genuine belief that everyone is capable of growth. We are a diverse team across race, gender, sexuality, and lived experience, and that diversity isn’t decorative. It shows up in how we connect with clients, how we conceptualize cases, and how we challenge each other to be better.
You can learn more about each of our clinicians on the team page, including their credentials, training, and areas of specialty.
Kind Mind’s reach extends beyond individual therapy sessions. I co-authored Addressing Race-Based Stress in Therapy with Black Clients (Routledge) and wrote and recorded the audiobook Push Back: Assert Yourself in Relationships. I currently host the ADHD & podcast through Understood.org and am the former host of the Savvy Psychologist podcast (Macmillan / Quick and Dirty Tips). I regularly speak at conferences and organizations on topics including race-based stress, evidence-based practice, and culturally affirming care, and I provide clinical supervision and training for emerging clinicians.
Kind Mind’s work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, British Vogue, Self, the Associated Press, Ebony, Psychology Today, Popsugar, Them, Girlboss, and The Next Web.
All services are available virtually in New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina. Group therapy is available across all PSYPACT states, and executive functioning coaching is available nationwide. We accept insurance and offer a sliding scale as low as $25 per session.
If you’ve been looking for a practice that takes your care as seriously as you take your life, reach out to us. We’d love to hear from you.
Dr. Monica Johnson, PsyD Founder, Kind Mind Psychology
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