A Mental Health Brand Committed to Supporting Anxious Black Women & Girls
Welcome to Anxious Black Girls®
Anxious Black Girls® is a mental health & wellness brand built for Black women & girls.
We support our community directly through therapy and medication services, education, community events, and products that help them find their way to the lives they want to live.
Here, we ask for nothing more than for you to show up. We prioritize healing & growth, and we curate our content, experiences, products, and services around the unique issues our community faces, in a way they understand.
Anxious Black Girls® exists to make mental health care feel safe, relatable, and something our community can trust.
Who’s This Space For?
For You
Most of the women we serve don’t look like they need help. They’re excelling at work, keeping up in school, and showing up for everyone around them. Look a little closer and the signs are there: headaches that won’t go away, grades starting to slip, relationships quietly falling apart. They’re stressed, burnt out, and unsure how to change, especially when everyone believes they have it all together.
Anxiety in high-achieving Black women rarely looks like panic. More often it looks like rereading an email six times before sending it, or lying awake replaying a conversation from three days ago. Those habits make sense. Many Black women learned them in rooms that asked them to be twice as good and half as visible, and the habits worked for a while. When they start wearing you down, you deserve support that doesn’t ask you to explain your culture first.
Anxious Black Girls® has served hundreds of women who decided they no longer wanted to live this way. They came ready to finally put themselves first, and they found a space built for exactly that.
For Organizations
Your strongest performers are often the ones struggling quietly. They support everyone else, but when life hits, they rarely have the tools to support themselves. Burnout stays hidden until someone pulls back, takes leave, or walks away.
Anxious Black Girls® gives your people practical skills to manage stress, set boundaries, and ask for help before they reach a breaking point. We also train your leaders to spot the early signs. Our keynotes, workshops, clinical trainings, and therapy referrals serve everyone in your organization, with a specialization in Black women & girls.
We Offer Services…
For The Anxious Black Girl
Therapy & Support is where the deepest work happens. Licensed clinicians who understand Black women's lives offer a space to slow down, say what has been held in for too long, and build ways of coping that last. Our clients can work one-on-one or alongside others facing similar things.
For Professionals &Organizations
Organizations lose good people to burnout they never saw coming, and many counselors finish school without the training to serve Black clients well. Training & Partnerships solves both. We give organizations the skills and early-warning tools to keep their people well, and we give counselors the supervision and training to grow into confident, culturally responsive clinicians. Our work serves everyone, with a specialization in Black women & girls.
For Building Your Community
Healing continues well outside a therapist's office. Community & Resources brings Anxious Black Girls® into everyday life through tools women can use on their own, conversations they can tune into, and spaces where real friendships form. It gives women who aren't ready for therapy a gentle place to start, and gives women who have finished therapy a way to keep growing.
Meet the Founder and
The Anxious Black Girl!
Deseray Wilson, LMHC
Anxious Black Girls® was founded by Deseray Wilson, LMHC, a licensed mental health counselor who has worked with Black women & girls for more than ten years. Her clients have included attorneys, nurses, new moms, adolescent youth, graduate students, women starting careers, and women rebuilding after divorce. Their stories differed, yet many of them shared one belief underneath: if I stop holding everything, it all falls apart.
Deseray started Anxious Black Girls® as a virtual therapy practice where women could walk into a session without first explaining their families, their culture, or why "just relax" never works. As the practice grew, so did the call to do more. Women wanted support before they were ready for weekly therapy and after they had finished. Employers and schools asked for help reaching the students they already served. Clinicians wanted training to do this work well.
Today Anxious Black Girls® answers each of those calls from the same clinical foundation. Every service, product, and training is grounded in licensed practice and built by people who know this community from the inside out.
Frequently Asked Questions
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We serve women 18 and older, specializing in women of African, Caribbean, and Afro-Latina heritage, LGBTQIA+ women, and first-generation Americans. We also hold space for our neurodiverse girls, late diagnosed or self-diagnose, we hold a special place in our practice for you! We also partner with organizations that serve Black women and girls who want to support them through high quality mental health & wellness programming.
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No. Our products, podcast, Social Club, and our events are open to every woman, whether she's in therapy, finished with it, or not ready to start. Many women begin with one of these and find their way to therapy later.
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Our guided journal, My Thoughts Belong to Me, walks you through clinical techniques for working through anxious thoughts on your own time. The podcast offers honest conversations about masking, anxiety, love, and family that you can listen to anywhere. The Anxious Black Girls® Social Club hosts small, low-key gatherings in South Florida where professional Black women build real friendships. Each one is built on the same clinical foundation as our therapy services.
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Yes. We work with companies, universities, health systems, and community groups on keynotes, workshops, and clinician trainings. Use the partnership form to tell us about your audience and goals, and we'll follow up to plan something that fits.
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Yes. We provide supervision for counselors in Florida working toward licensure, with steady guidance on clinical skills, ethics, documentation, and culturally responsive care. Reach out to ask about current availability and how supervision is structured.
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Yes. We're in-network with a few insurance plans. If your plan isn't listed, we can provide a superbill so you can request out-of-network reimbursement. We are able to do therapy with clients in Florida, Washington State, Indiana, and Massachusetts. Currently we only accept insurance plans in Florida.