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therapists Who meet you where you are.

Compassionate, culturally responsive care from clinicians who reflect the communities they serve. Based in Buffalo, NY — in-person and telehealth across New York.

Takes 5 minutes - a real person matches you.

Now Accepting New Clients

In Person & Telehealth

Rasheen Powell

LCSW-R

Clinical Director & CEO

Works with children, teens, and adults moving through trauma, anxiety, and depression. Believes it takes strength to sit with what you've carried in silence.


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Monique Funderburk

LMSW

Lead Clinician

25+ years supporting adolescents, adults, and families through grief, anxiety, and life's hardest seasons. Warm, sup

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Sherrell McLean

LCSW, PMH-C, CLC

Therapist

Works with adults 18–45 navigating anxiety, trauma, life transitions, and pregnancy. A grounded, nonjudgmental space to show up real.

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Diana Delmonte Bido

LMSW

Therapist

Works with young adults and professionals who appear high-functioning but feel stuck. Warm, curious, trauma-informed therapy.

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Dorethea Franklin

LMHC-P

Therapist

20+ years experience with children, adults, couples, and families. Calm, collaborative, trauma-informed care at your pace.

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Dorian Withrow Jr.

MHC-LP

Therapist

Works with individuals, couples, teens, and groups navigating ADHD, anxiety, and relationship challenges. Direct and supportive.

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Domonica Howard

MHC, MFT

Therapist

Works with adults and young adults managing anxiety, depression, trauma, and anger. Focused on building a strong therapeutic relationship.

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Rhonda K. Taste

LMSW

Therapist

Specializes in trauma, anxiety, and life transitions. Culturally responsive care that centers identity and lived experience.

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A note from us

Why this Work MAtters

Finding the right therapist is hard. Finding one who gets it — who shares your context — is harder still.
 

New Purpose was founded on the belief that mental health care should reflect the people it serves. We're a Black-led practice rooted in Buffalo's diverse communities, offering trauma-informed, culturally responsive therapy. Our clinicians work with clients across racial, cultural, and identity backgrounds — with particular care for populations historically underserved.
 

Whatever you're navigating — you don't have to figure it out alone.

Areas of Focus

What Our Team Treats

Anxiety & Panic

Help managing the constant low-grade dread, the racing thoughts that won't quiet, the panic that shows up without warning.

Trauma & PTSD

Trauma-focused care for childhood trauma, complex PTSD, and the lasting effects of events you may have never named out loud.

Depression

Support for the heaviness that doesn't lift. Evidence-based approaches paired with space to feel understood.

Grief & Loss

For loss that's recent and loss that's old. Including grief that doesn't fit easily into other people's timelines.

Life Transitions

Career changes, identity shifts, new chapters, hard endings. Sometimes you need a thinking partner, not a diagnosis.

Relationships & Family

Individual work on relationship patterns, couples therapy, and family systems work for the dynamics that have you stuck.

First-Generation Experience

Therapy that gets the weight of being the first, the bridge, the one who made it.

Not Sure Who?

Tell us about yourself and we'll be happy to match you with the right clincian 

HELP ME FIND A FIT
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