Ashley, Scates & Associates
ASA is a Black woman-led therapy collective offering culturally responsive and affordable mental health care. Our team of Associate Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists provides individual, couple, and family therapy for diverse clients across California. We support people facing anxiety, depression, PTSD, grief, ADHD, relationship issues, identity exploration, and more. Supervised by licensed clinicians, our associates offer high-quality care with sliding scale rates. At ASA, we value compassion, collaboration, and honoring your lived experience. If you’re seeking supportive, culturally attuned therapy at a price that works for you, we invite you to connect with us today.
Amara Clark MA, AMFT
(310)692-1588 amaraxclark@gmail.com
As a holistic therapist, Amara is passionate about helping people reconnect with their minds, bodies, and spirits. Her work is grounded in an anti-oppressive and social justice lens, acknowledging how trauma, stress, and societal pressures can shape our mental health and sense of self.
Amara creates a warm, judgment-free space where you can show up as your full self and feel truly seen and supported. Her goal is for you to leave each session feeling more grounded, empowered, and confident in who you are.
She specializes in supporting young Black women and women of color who are navigating intergenerational or complex trauma, anxiety, depression, or challenges with identity and self-esteem.
Amara’s clients are often motivated to find balance, stability, and deeper meaning in their lives.
KIm Seabrooks, MA, AMFT
(818)850-7600 Kseabrooks@antioch.edu
Kim Seabrooks (she/her) is a relational therapist that uses an integrative approach to therapy by utilizing a psychodynamic, humanistic, client- centered approach with emphasis on intergenerational trauma and attachment. Kim helps individuals, couples, and families to learn to listen more effectively to themselves and each other using somatic processes to untangle emotional blockages. Kim has experience with childhood trauma and trauma related symptoms such as grief, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and relational conflict. She is ready to explore your past and actively listen for repeating negative patterns that keep people stuck.
Her objective is to create a safe space for clients to address their concerns. and mindfully collaborate to support the experience of a fully expressed life.