The Price of Hyper-Visibility.

As a professional woman of color in executive leadership, academia, medicine, or law, you embody the resilience of entire communities as you navigate complex professional landscapes with remarkable strength. But maintaining this exterior shouldn't come at the expense of your well-being. The pressures of high-functioning anxiety and corporate burnout often manifest not as rest, but through relentless overachievement as a means of survival.

If you find yourself running on pure adrenaline, struggling to sleep, or feeling disconnected from your body, you deserve more than a generic self-care checklist. What you truly need is a nurturing, confidential space to process your experiences, heal, and graciously set aside your armor. You are not alone, and support is here for you.

Areas of Clinical Specialization

• Executive Burnout and Fatigue: Understanding the psychological and physical toll of microaggressions, heightened visibility, and corporate demands.

• High-Functioning Anxiety: Manage the inner critic, overcome perfectionism, and address the constant pressure to overperform.

• Somatic Trauma Resolution: Releasing stress, tension, and trauma accumulated in the body due to workplace experiences.

• Boundary and Identity Cultivation: Reclaiming your authentic identity (Asili) beyond professional titles and learning to protect your inner peace.

Evidence-Informed Clinical Depth Meets Somatic Restoration

• Psychodynamic Therapy: This approach uncovers and heals deep-rooted patterns, ancestral narratives, and long-standing belief systems.

• Somatic & Yoga Psychology: Focuses on moving beyond intellectual understanding to actively track, process, and release stress responses directly from the body.

• Cognitive & Mindfulness Frameworks: Develops practical, real-time tools for setting boundaries to help down-regulate your nervous system in the face of intense professional pressure.

Meet Your Clinician: Nicole Ware Spencer, PsyD, MPH, E-RYT 500

Welcome, Sister. I'm Dr. Nicole, a Clinical Psychologist and Somatic Yoga Therapist. I specialize in creating ultra-private, premium, and culturally responsive therapeutic spaces exclusively for established women of color. I understand the nuanced complexities, invisible burdens, and unique systemic pressures you face in leadership roles. My mission is to help you move out of chronic fight-or-flight mode, reconnect with who you are outside of your work, and build a sustainable lifestyle grounded in ease and self-preservation.

Investment & Administrative Logistics

• Secure Telehealth: All clinical sessions are conducted through a secure and confidential video platform, serving residents in 44 states.

• Session Investment: A 50-minute individual clinical session costs $310.

• Insurance Details: Asili Wellness operates as a private-pay practice. We do not accept insurance directly, but we can provide a monthly superbill upon request for potential out-of-network reimbursement.

Clinical Process Groups & Intimate Circles

Confidential processing of shared leadership challenges within a supportive sisterhood.

Designed for women who thrive in community, our clinical group therapy spaces offer established women of color in leadership a private, secure environment to address the unique systemic pressures, microaggressions, and heightened visibility they face in elite professional settings. A licensed clinician leads each group and combines clinical processing with somatic down-regulation techniques.

• Group Size: Strictly limited to 6–8 participants to ensure absolute intimacy and psychological safety.  

• Structure: Weekly 90-minute sessions in closed cycles, consisting of 6- to 8-week cohorts.  

• Current Cohort Status: Accepting applications.