When the Weight Is Real, Clarity Matters
Trauma-informed mental health and leadership support for people and systems under pressure.
People come to Larimar when what they are carrying has consequences.
A decision that affects others.
A role that demands steadiness.
Exposure to crisis, violence, or systems that do not pause for human impact.
Some are seeking mental health support without entering long-term therapy.
Some are leading teams, organizations, or institutions and need perspective rather than performance.
Others are looking for clarity and regulation when reaction carries risk.
Larimar exists to meet these moments with precision, integrity, and respect for complexity.
Support That Is Clear About Its Role
Too often, support is offered without clarity.
Mental health is framed as coaching. Coaching borrows the language of healing. Wellness is offered without containment or context. This lack of distinction creates harm for individuals and risk for organizations.
Larimar takes a different approach.
Support works best when it is clear about what it is, grounded in ethical scope, and steady in its delivery.
Who This Work Is For
Women in Leadership
and High-Stakes
Professions
You may be accustomed to holding things together.
Decision fatigue. Moral residue. The quiet cost of being competent while remaining human.
You are often expected to regulate environments, people, and outcomes with little space to be impacted yourself.
Larimar works with women in leadership who need support that respects their capacity, does not diminish their intelligence, and does not ask them to carry more in order to be helped.
This is not about fixing you.
It is about supporting you without eroding what already works.
Bodies of Culture in Law Enforcement, Executive Roles, & Complex Systems
You operate in environments where exposure matters.
Where culture, power, and consequence are always present.
Where stress is not only personal, but structural and cumulative.
Larimar understands that regulation in these systems is not about comfort.
It is about harm reduction, ethical clarity, and steadiness where missteps carry real cost.
This work is grounded in cultural intelligence, decolonial psychology, and systems awareness, not performative healing language.
Organizations and Individuals
Seeking Clarity and
Regulation
Some people come because they feel overwhelmed.
Others come because they are responsible for people who are.
Organizations and individuals seek Larimar when they want support that stabilizes rather than destabilizes, and perspective that clarifies rather than escalates.
Regulation here does not mean avoidance.
It means steadiness, containment, and discernment in moments where reaction carries risk.
How Larimar Approaches Support
Clarity is the intervention. Larimar does not blur roles, scopes, or services. Mental health support is offered as mental health support. Leadership and systems work is offered as leadership and systems work. Education is offered as education.
This clarity protects individuals, organizations, and outcomes, and ensures that support is offered in the right container.
Mental Health Consultation, Education, and Wellness
Larimar Counseling Services
This path is for individuals and professionals seeking licensed, trauma-informed mental health-related support that is brief and targeted.
Support may include:
- One-time 90-minute mental health consultation
- Crisis-informed assessment and referral
- Mental health education and professional training
- Complementary wellness practices such as Reiki and sound, offered as non-clinical support
- These services are not positioned as ongoing psychotherapy unless explicitly contracted.
This work is informed by advanced trauma training and international psychological scholarship, while operating strictly within a clinical scope in New York State.
Leadership, Systems, and Institutional
Support
Larimar Evolutions
This path is for leaders, organizations, and institutions navigating high-pressure environments and complex systems.
Support may include:
- Leadership and executive coaching
- Organizational and systems consulting
- Trauma-informed systems support and training
- Keynotes, panels, and professional speaking
This work is non-clinical and non-therapeutic. It focuses on capacity, systems awareness, and ethical decision-making under pressure.
This work is led by Jessenia Ogunade, PhD, an international psychologist and trauma specialist whose expertise centers on decoloniality, gender-based violence, and the psychological impact of policing and public safety systems.
Leadership and Expertise
Larimar is led by Jessenia Ogunade, PhD, an international psychologist, trauma specialist, and subject-matter expert in gender-based violence and policing.
Her work integrates decolonial psychology, trauma science, and systems analysis to address how harm is produced, sustained, and responded to within institutions and communities.
Her clinical, educational, research, consulting, and speaking work spans national and international contexts.
Where to Begin
You do not need to perfectly categorize your needs before reaching out.
Each path is explained clearly on its own page.
If you arrive in the wrong place, clarity, not judgment, will redirect you.
What matters most is that support is offered in the right container.
Larimar works with individuals, leaders, and organizations both nationally and internationally.
Licensed mental health services are available to individuals residing in New York State. Leadership, consulting, education, and speaking services are offered nationally and internationally.