Sierra M. Roach-Coye, LMSW, PhD Candidate, is a licensed master social worker, trauma-informed therapist, and doctoral researcher whose practice is built on a foundational belief: that healing is not a private individual achievement. It is something that happens in relation to self, community, culture, and the land.

Sierra specializes in working with Black women and BIPOC clients who are navigating the exhaustion that comes from carrying racial trauma, intergenerational grief, and the silent pressure of being the one in the room who has to work twice as hard. She has dedicated her clinical training to understanding what happens in the body and psyche when excellence becomes a survival strategy — and how to help gifted, high-achieving clients learn to rest without guilt, grieve without explanation, and grow without losing themselves.

Her areas of specialization include racial and generational trauma, burnout and high-achieving exhaustion, giftedness and identity, major life transitions, and culturally responsive care for clients who have spent too long in therapy rooms where their full experience wasn’t welcome.

Sierra is also a PhD. candidate whose research explores Black nature connectedness and land-based healing — and she brings that framework into the therapy room, helping clients reconnect not just to themselves but to something larger. Her practice is warm, direct, and unhurried. She does not ask clients to minimize, explain, or translate their experience. She asks them to bring it whole.

Sierra offers telehealth sessions and is committed to creating access for BIPOC clients at every stage of their healing journey. She is currently accepting new clients and welcomes those seeking a therapist who understands — not just professionally but personally — what it costs to carry the things you carry.

Telehealth available. Currently accepting new clients.