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How We Work Together
You deserve therapy that honors your identity, lived experiences, and values—without asking you to explain them. At Life Migration Therapy, sessions are grounded in cultural humility, anti-oppression practices, and trauma-informed care.
Whether you're navigating the challenges of being a first- or second-generation adult, working through burnout, healing from trauma, or seeking support around racial identity or gender expression—you’ll be met with compassion, clarity, and culturally responsive care.
Therapy with Charika is collaborative and flexible. Sessions are offered online and in person for adults in Maryland and Washington, D.C., and are designed to create safety, support growth, and empower you to make aligned, lasting change.
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Personalized sessions that meet you where you are — whether you're managing anxiety, depression, or the stress of constantly code-switching in a world that doesn't always get you. Life is complex — and sometimes, we need a space to process, heal, and grow.
As a licensed psychotherapist serving Maryland and Washington, DC, I provide individual therapy that centers your story. Whether you’re navigating depression, anxiety, identity questions, or emotional stress, I offer culturally-responsive support tailored to your needs.
You deserve care from a mental health professional who sees your full humanity. Its less about solution focused therapy, and more about commitment therapy to your own current space.
I get to know you, address challenges with a person centered approach where I provide compassionate guidance that’ll bring positive change to your world.
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From identity navigation to intergenerational trauma, I specialize in holding space for those raised between worlds — children of immigrants, multicultural families, and folks doing deep emotional unlearning. Lets face it, we face unique challenges, we have specific needs, helping clients like you is why I became a therapist.
Being the first in your family to navigate life in a new country can feel isolating. You may carry unspoken pressure, cultural conflict, or guilt. I offer therapy for immigrants and children of immigrants that addresses intergenerational trauma, identity exploration, and code-switching exhaustion. You don’t have to choose between honoring your heritage and building your future — together, we make space for both.
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Navigating the immigration process is already hard — your psychological evaluation shouldn’t be.
I provide timely, culturally-informed mental health evaluations for:
Extreme Hardship Waivers
Asylum Cases
VAWA Petitions
U Visa & T Visa Applications
With experience working with immigrant families and African American families and trauma-informed care, I ensure your story is documented clearly and compassionately.
Done with cultural sensitivity, a safe space and timeliness — supporting you and your attorney throughout the process.
We’re accepting new clients and helping clients consistently, schedule a call here.
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Feel like you're always “on”? Let’s unpack burnout, boundary-setting, and imposter syndrome in a space that honors your humanity.
Your job shouldn’t cost you your health. If you’re overwhelmed by deadlines, micro aggressions, burnout, or lack of fulfillment, you’re not alone. I offer therapy for work-related stress that helps you identify patterns, process trauma, and reclaim peace. We’ll work together to explore what rest and boundaries can look like — even when quitting isn’t an option.
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As a Black woman, you’re often expected to carry everything — strength, silence, survival.
But you deserve space to be seen, heard, and held. I specialize in therapy for Black women in Maryland and DC who are dealing with stress, burnout, imposter syndrome, or emotional overwhelm.
This is a place where you can unmask, reconnect, and rebuild on your own terms. Using different methods from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution focused therapeutic services, I help clients break free and live fuller, healthier lives.
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Queer, questioning, and LGBTQ+ folks deserve affirming, safe, and nonjudgmental therapy. Whether you're navigating coming out, trauma, chosen family dynamics, or the intersections of queerness and culture, I hold space for your full experience. As a Queer-affirming and BIPOC therapist, my work centers liberation and mental wellness — not pathology.
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Traditional therapy can feel disconnected or dismissive for many BIPOC and immigrant communities. That’s why I practice decolonized therapy — an approach rooted in social justice, lived experience, and collective healing. We name power, honor your story, and center your truth without shame or labels. This is therapy that honors you, not fixes you.
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Access care from the comfort of home. I offer HIPAA-compliant online therapy to clients across Maryland and DC.
Whether you’re balancing parenting, commuting, or just prefer the privacy of your space, online counseling is a convenient and effective option for mental health support.
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Major life changes — whether joyful or painful — can bring emotional stress, confusion, and grief. I work with clients navigating transitions like career changes, moving, breakups, new relationships, and family shifts. Together, we build clarity and resilience through every chapter.
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
Alice Walker
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
Self Harm Text Hotline: Text Connect 741741
Self Harm Hotline: 1-800-366-8288
Trans Life Crisis Line: (877) 565-8860
DC Rape Crisis Center (24 hrs): 202-333-RAPE/202-333-7273
House of Ruth Domestic Violence Hotline (24 hrs): 202-667-7001
DC Mobile Crisis Team: 202-673-9300
Psychiatric Emergency Service (24 hrs): 202-561-7000
Crisis and Family Stress (24 hrs): 202-223-2255
La Clinica del Pueblo (Spanish): 202-462-4788
Healing Looks Different for Everyone.
Here's What It Felt Like for Them.
Why don’t I take insurance?
I don’t take insurance because it often creates barriers for vulnerable communities, including people of color, immigrants and LGBTQ+ community. Insurance companies require diagnoses for coverage, which can be used against individuals in legal, employment, or immigration matters. Many people in these communities are also misdiagnosed or denied care due to systemic biases. By not accepting insurance, I ensure that therapy remains a safe, judgment-free space where healing isn’t dictated by rigid policies or profit-driven systems.
While I don’t accept insurance directly, many clients use their out-of-network benefits to get reimbursed for sessions. I provide a superbill (a detailed receipt) that you can submit to your insurance company. Depending on your plan, they may cover a portion of the cost.
We've partnered with Mentaya, a service that streamlines getting reimbursed for your therapy sessions through out-of-network benefits.
Mentaya is perfect if you:
• Have out-of-network benefits
• Feel overwhelmed by superbills and insurance
• Have submitted superbills but failed to get any reimbursement
• Simply want to skip the hassle of paperwork!
Here's how it works:
1. Sign up for Mentaya here
2. Our practice will enter your sessions into the platform.
3. Mentaya submits the claim and handles any insurance follow-up.
4. You get reimbursed by insurance!
Mentaya charges a 5% fee per claim, which includes handling any paperwork required, dealing with denials, and calling insurance companies.
It's risk-free: They guarantee claims are successfully submitted, or a full refund of their fees.
