Ashley McGirt Counseling Services LLC

12/22/2025

"Black women writers are necessary so that Black women can define and depict their own experiences rather than being objects in the stories of others."
– Octavia Butler

Tag a Black woman writer you love below.

12/18/2025

Give the gift of healing. 🎁
These 10 mental health books are perfect for anyone on a journey toward understanding, liberation, and emotional wellness.

📖 Decolonizing Therapy — Jennifer Mullan, PsyD
📖 Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome — Dr. Joy DeGruy
📖 The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care — Me 😍
📖 My Grandmother’s Hands — Resmaa Menakem
📖 Even the Rat Was White — Robert Guthrie
📖 The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880 — Wendy Gonaver
📖 The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health — Rheeda Walker, PhD
📖 Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum — Antonia Hylton
📖 The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease — Jonathan M. Metzl
📖 The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color — Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT

12/16/2025

✨ 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭✨
2026 is already shaping up to be a year of deep impact from leadership keynotes to mental health conferences, book fests, and our Reclaiming Wellness experience in July. 💜✨

I’m also mapping out 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 book launch tour with Elliott Bay Book Company on 4/1 in Seattle and San Diego Public Library 5/4 as one of the featured stops. I would love to hear from you: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫?

Share your city below and tag your favorite bookstore or library , let’s bring this work to the communities that need it most. 💜📚

12/14/2025

I’m not home so my husband sent me videos of my and as I was playing it my sister said this review needs to be posted. Call him maybe will send my husband one. Because for the price baby! We will have to share this. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

12/11/2025

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12/10/2025

Still wondering why I was followed around by all the young people in Egypt. They had me feeling like Beyonce. It was awkward. So I can’t imagine this on a daily basis. I couldn’t go anywhere in Egypt. The kids would scream, take photos of me, call their friends, hug me, etc. I tried to ask my tour guide who they thought I was but he was annoyed the tour kept getting interrupted. Anywho I’m Egypt famous. Sorry to whoever they think I am. Cause they were sooooo happy 😊. just little old author therapist me traveling the world 🌎!

12/09/2025

🎈 Hope. Healing. A new chapter.

Balloons feel light, but the journey to healing often isn’t. The Cost of Healing in Silence was born from years of listening, learning, and witnessing the weight many communities have carried in silence.

This book is both a celebration and a call: to name what’s harmed us, to seek care that sees us, and to create a future where therapy is accessible and affirming for everyone.

Surrounded by these balloons, I’m choosing joy while honoring the work it took to get here.

✨ Preorder today and help me continue breaking barriers to mental health care while sending a powerful message that we need to be sharing these stories.

📚 www.thecostofhealing.com

12/08/2025

New episode of Friends Like Us is coming your way this Wednesday the 10th! Our wonderful host Marina Franklin is chatting with the spectacular Ashley McGirt Counseling Services LLC and Comedian Nonye Brown-West , so stay tuned!

Link to listen is always in our bio☝🏽 or you can go to linktr.ee/marinayfranklin

If you like what you hear, leave us a review on ApplePodcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify, and consider showing your support on Patreon! ✨

12/06/2025

My NAACP environmental chair sounds better than yours

12/05/2025

The Milgram Experiment wasn’t just about obedience it was a warning about how power can disguise harm as “care.” ⚡️
We still see this in healthcare today, especially for Black communities, where pain is minimized, trust is exploited, and silence is expected.

My upcoming book The Cost of Healing in Silence digs deeper into how these systems shape our mental health and what it means to reclaim our voice.
Healing isn’t compliance.
Healing is truth. 💜
🔗 Preorder today

11/30/2025

Have you preordered your copy of The Cost of Healing in Silence yet? Every preorder helps amplify the call for culturally responsive care. 🤎📚