About
Recover from what survival required.
I’m Pashyon Blake,
MSW, LCSW
Even as a young girl, I noticed something I didn’t have language for at the time. Not everyone was given the same beginning. Some people grew up with steadiness. Others grew up adapting—learning how to read the room, stay ahead of emotion, anticipate needs, or carry more than they should have had to.
That awareness shaped how I’ve moved through every chapter of my life and work.
Before becoming a therapist, I worked alongside unhoused families, young adults transitioning out of foster care, women navigating motherhood, military families navigating constant change, and individuals moving through grief and major life transitions. Across all of those spaces, I kept noticing the same thing, which was that people weren’t just managing circumstances. They were managing what those circumstances required them to become:
The strong one.
The responsible one.
The caretaker.
The one who holds everything together.
The one who doesn’t fall apart.
Over time, those roles can begin to feel less like something you do and more like who you are.
My work is about gently questioning that shift. Not to take away what helped you survive, but to help you understand it. To make space for what it cost you and to support you in recovering the parts of yourself that never stopped existing beneath it.
Because survival is not the problem.
It is often brilliant. It is adaptive. It makes sense.
But survival is not meant to become identity.
Healing is not about becoming someone new.
It is about no longer abandoning yourself in order to be who you had to become. It is learning how to stay with yourself—emotionally, relationally, and somatically—in ways that may not have been possible before. It is grieving what was never offered. It is understanding the patterns that formed in response. It is slowly, carefully building a different relationship with yourself in the present.
EDUCATION
& TRAINING
I earned my Master of Social Work (MSW) and am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in North Carolina.
My clinical work is grounded in ongoing post-graduate training in trauma, attachment, grief, and nervous system-informed therapy. I place strong value on continued learning because the depth of this work requires both clinical skill and ongoing professional development.
Professional
Training
Trauma & Attachment Systems
Attachment Theory
Trauma-Informed Care
Psychodynamic Therapy
Relational & Grief Work
Relational Psychotherapy
Grief and Bereavement Work
Internal Experience / Parts Work
Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed Therapy
Somatic & Nervous System Work
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (Level 1)
Nervous System Awareness and Regulation
Perinatal Mental Health
Advanced training in Perinatal Mental Health through Postpartum Support International (PSI)
PERSONAL
PHILOSOPHY
What matters most in my work is not a model or method. It is this:
Can your experience be held without judgment or urgency?
Can you feel understood?
Can you slow down enough to hear yourself again?
Saying the Quiet
Part Out Loud
If you’re ready to understand these patterns more deeply and begin changing your relationship with overfunctioning and boundaries, you can reach out to schedule a consultation.