Coffee with a Counselor

10/12/2025

SISTERHOOD SATURDAYs

Join me this Saturday at 11am

Please check out the link to register…

Patrece M. Lucas, MS, LPC Community Counselor

💙Indigo Transitions, PLLC
☕️Coffee with a Counselor

💜 Healing Circles – Sisterhood Saturdays 💜
This Saturday at 11:00 AM on Zoom
🌟 Led by Our Community Counselor: Patrece M. Lucas, MS, LPC 🌟

Healing Circles is a safe, confidential, spirit led support space for women who are survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness, childhood trauma, and life changing trauma. This is a judgment free space where real healing, real conversations, and real support happen.

In our Healing Circles we:
✨ Pray and reflect together
✨ Learn healthy, trauma informed tools for healing
✨ Share at your own comfort level
✨ Build sisterhood and community
✨ Gain encouragement, strength, and hope

🌟 About Our Healing Circle Facilitator – Patrece M. Lucas, MS, LPC 🌟
This Healing Circle will be led by our Community Counselor, Patrece M. Lucas, MS, LPC. Patrece is a licensed professional counselor who provides trauma informed, compassionate care to survivors walking through healing, recovery, and personal growth. She brings clinical expertise, spiritual grounding, and real world experience into every space she leads.

If you are interested in joining us this Saturday at 11:00 AM on Zoom, please email wheatorganization@gmail.com
and we will send you the Zoom invite link privately.

✅ You do NOT have to be a current WHEAT client
✅ This circle is confidential
✅ This space is for healing, growth, and restoration

🙏 If you know someone who needs this, please share this post and let them know they are not alone. You never know who is silently hurting and needs this exact moment.

💜 Healing happens in community. Your seat is waiting.

06/12/2025

Join Me

Sunday, December 14th

Mental Health Workshop: Supporting the Whole Mind

(African, Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and the Physical Brain)

Building self determination about our daily health practices the African way✊🏾—mind, money, and purpose aligned.
Meet us at the African Wholistic Wealth Expo.

📆Sunday, December 14,

📍7701 Harper Ave.

⏰12pm-5pm

📚🗒️Classes + Workshops every 30 minutes

29/11/2025

this is COMMUNITY CARE

one of the BIG DREAMs of my work is to provide rest and respite spaces for those who need it. i have recognized for the longest that even those in mental health crisis that result in hospitalization their truest need is simply needing rest and the PERMISSION to REST away from the pressures of work and other obligations. In America sadly only hospitalization signifies to the world and even colleagues, family, and friends that someone needs or even deserves rest, gentleness, and care. It is a professional goal of mine to change that narrative.

i am grateful i can look at other countries and find hope.

Patrece M. Lucas, MS, LPC Community Counselor

💙Indigo Transitions, PLLC
☕️Coffee with a Counselor

In Portugal’s public libraries, a new chapter is being written — not in books, but in the way people find rest. Called “Rest Chapters,” these after-hours spaces open when the libraries officially close, offering soft, quiet refuge for those who need it most. Inside, overhead lights are dimmed and replaced with warm floor lamps, the scent of herbs like lavender or rosemary drifts gently through the air, and folded quilts are stacked nearby for anyone who wants to settle in for a while.

The initiative is designed for early risers, night workers, students without safe housing, and those who simply need a calm, respectful place to pause. Entry is discreet and unmonitored, with no formal check-in. Guests step in from the night and find simple comforts: wooden benches softened with cushions, bookshelves untouched but present, and windows that reflect only stillness.

The air is kept warm, but not hot. Volunteers or library staff set the tone early — slow music, a kettle for tea, and soft signs reminding visitors to whisper or rest. Some “Rest Chapters” include low tables with pencils and paper for those who wish to write, while others focus solely on sleep and silence.

This gentle transformation of a public space into a nighttime sanctuary shows Portugal’s belief that care doesn’t require grand buildings or high walls. It can live between pages, under quilts, beside a lamp, offering safety where knowledge once waited — and now, where peace quietly begins.

26/11/2025

“So, I’ll keep lying. I’ll keep bending the rules. I’ll keep making up policies that don’t exist.”

Community Care Fund

Patrece M. Lucas, MS, LPC Community Counselor

💙Indigo Transitions, PLLC
☕️Coffee with a Counselor

25/11/2025

ME NEITHER!!!

i am so grateful to have been a part of Caring Across Generations CareFest 2025. As a 2024 Care Fellow and invited to be a panelist/speaker it was a joy and honor to be in community with the best of humanity, fellowship with other caregivers and care recipients, and to

LEARN
GROW
and
BE AFFIRMed!!!

it was everything i needed both personally and professionally to stoke the flames of my work as an advocate, community counselor, and become an even better caregiver to my mama and baby adults and the communities i serve…

30/10/2024

Mornting

Traveling home today…

but first LOOK came to DC and made it on national Fox News News (national news)!!!

Speaking about the media endorsing a political candidate and not my work here at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and speaking at the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) 40th Anniversary but it was still really cool!!!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/voters-dc-outlets-refusing-endorse-harris-because-shaky-scared-throw-her







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Americans in Washington, D.C. weighed on major liberal outlets' recent decision not to endorse a presidential candidate this election cycle.

29/10/2024

just off the stage at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Humphrey Building speaking at the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act (FVPSA) 40th Anniversary Event on a panel with the Women Transforming Families in Communities of Color discussing our work involving Survivor Led Solutions.

I am joined my colleagues and lifted the voices of Survivor Women of Color Leaders…

Patrece M. Lucas, MS, LPC Community Counselor

Indigo Transitions, PLLC
Coffee with a Counselor