What Empowered Mind Therapy Center does

Empowered Mind Therapy Center (legal entity: Vanessa Solis Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PC) is a private mental health therapy practice headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, with a second office in Oakland and statewide California telehealth delivery. The practice delivers therapy services built around two evidence-based trauma-processing modalities — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Brainspotting — alongside general individual therapy, couples therapy, and teen therapy. Adjacent offerings include EMDR Intensives (concentrated 90-minute to 3+ hour sessions) and Adjunct EMDR (supplementing an existing talk therapist). Operations are supported by SimplePractice for client portal, scheduling, intake, and session management, and by Mailchimp for email newsletter distribution; no proprietary technology stack or AI component is identified.

The business operates as a fee-for-service clinical practice (with a Fees & Insurance page indicating likely insurance participation), targeting a culturally specific clientele — primarily professional women of color and QTBIPOC individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area and across California — with explicit positioning around racial, intergenerational, and systemic trauma. The named clinical team comprises three LCSWs led by founder Vanessa Solis (Certified EMDR therapist and Approved EMDR Consultant), with Jessica Hernandez serving as Lead Clinician and Clinical Supervisor and Monique Jacobo-Evans as Clinical Therapist. Headcount is reported as 1-10 employees, and the practice operates as a sole professional corporation with no disclosed external investment, parent company, or funding rounds.

Go-to-market is direct-to-consumer: clients self-refer via the website, with a free consultation serving as the primary conversion step. Marketing channels are organic — Instagram (@empoweredmindtherapy), an SEO-optimized blog, a monthly Mailchimp newsletter, and content addressing BIPOC-specific mental health search queries. Distribution spans two physical Bay Area offices and a statewide telehealth channel restricted to California under the practice's LCSW licensure.

Name

Empowered Mind Therapy Center

Legal name

Vanessa Solis Licensed Clinical Social Worker, PC

Website

https://empoweredmindca.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Empowered Mind Therapy Center is a private mental health practice in Walnut Creek and Oakland, California, delivering EMDR, Brainspotting, and culturally affirming therapy to BIPOC women and QTBIPOC clients in person and via statewide telehealth.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mental Health Therapy Services

NAICS

Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) (62133), Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) (621330)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

General Mental Health Therapy Platforms (Talk Therapy) (HLALAEAA)

Keywords

• Mental health therapy
• Trauma therapy services
• EMDR therapy
• Brainspotting therapy
• Culturally affirming therapy

Headquarters

HQ city

Walnut Creek

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Individual Therapy Services: Fee-for-service and/or insurance-based therapy sessions including EMDR, Brainspotting, and general mental health therapy for individuals.
2. Couples Therapy Services: Trauma-informed couples therapy for QTBIPOC and BIPOC partners addressing relationship challenges, communication, and intimacy issues.
3. EMDR Intensives: Extended concentrated therapy sessions (90 minutes to 3+ hours) for accelerated trauma processing, offered as a premium service.
4. Teen Therapy Services: Specialized therapy services for adolescents using EMDR and Brainspotting approaches tailored for anxiety, depression, and trauma.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Empowered Mind Therapy Center provides mental health therapy services built on EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Brainspotting modalities, serving women of color, BIPOC women, and QTBIPOC individuals and couples in the San Francisco Bay Area and online throughout California. Services include individual therapy, couples therapy, teen therapy, EMDR Intensives (90-minute to 3+ hour concentrated sessions), and group workshops, delivered by culturally affirming BIPOC-identified therapists.

Product overview

Empowered Mind Therapy Center is a mental health therapy practice offering a suite of specialized services centered on two primary therapeutic modalities — EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and Brainspotting — supplemented by general individual therapy, couples therapy, and online/virtual therapy. The practice provides these services at two physical office locations (Walnut Creek and Oakland, CA) and online throughout California. Specialized offerings include EMDR Intensives (concentrated 90-minute to 3-hour sessions with a customized workbook), Adjunct EMDR (for clients in ongoing talk therapy), and targeted services for anxiety, depression, trauma, self-esteem, first-generation adults, women of color, and teens. All services are delivered by BIPOC-identified, culturally affirming therapists, with a focus on the BIPOC and QTBIPOC communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Individual Therapy Individual mental health therapy sessions helping clients gain a better understanding of themselves, their goals and values, and develop new ways to deal with life's challenges, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and identity concerns.
• EMDR Therapy Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an evidence-based therapy focused on breaking down negative thoughts and beliefs about yourself that stem from traumatic or disturbing events.
• Brainspotting Therapy Brainspotting is a brain-body-based therapy that bypasses the 'thinking' part of the brain to access deeper emotional and body-based parts, targeting and processing unresolved trauma.
• EMDR Intensives Concentrated therapy sessions (90 minutes to 3 hours) designed to help process trauma, anxiety, or depression more quickly and deeply, with a customized workbook offered to maximize treatment impact; available in person and online throughout California.
• Couples Therapy Culturally affirming, trauma-informed couples therapy for QTBIPOC and BIPOC partners that integrates EMDR and Brainspotting modalities to support relational healing, trust rebuilding, communication, and intimacy.
• Online Therapy in California Virtual therapy sessions delivered via a secure telehealth platform, available to clients across California, including EMDR, Brainspotting, and general therapy.
• Workshops & Groups Group therapy and workshop offerings including group therapy for Filipina/x/o adults navigating harmful family dynamics and wanting to break intergenerational cycles.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Headway: Platform that supports independent therapists with insurance credentialing, billing, and practice operations across states. Relevant comparator because it lowers the operational friction of running a therapy practice similar to EMTC's.
• Alma: Membership-based platform that enables independent therapists to run insurance-accepting private practices, providing billing, credentialing, and marketing infrastructure. Comparable in supporting BIPOC- and specialty-focused practices but operates as a network/enabler rather than a direct provider.
• Grow Therapy: Network platform helping licensed therapists build insurance-accepting private practices across multiple U.S. states. Comparable to the practice's clinical model but operates at national scale and as infrastructure rather than direct service.
• Therapy for Black Girls: National directory and therapy platform purpose-built to connect Black women and girls with culturally competent therapists. Directly comparable in cultural-affirming niche positioning and demographic targeting, though it operates as a referral network rather than an employing practice.

Direct peers

• Two Chairs: Multi-location outpatient therapy practice headquartered in California, offering in-person and telehealth therapy with a focus on quality-of-care, evidence-based modalities, and therapist training programs. Highly comparable practice model (clinics + statewide telehealth) though broader demographic targeting.
• Octave: Outpatient mental health practice operating multiple clinics in California and New York with in-person and virtual therapy services. Closely comparable hybrid clinic + telehealth model serving working professionals, though Octave targets a broader demographic and accepts insurance at scale.

Broad incumbents

• Lyra Health: Large, well-funded enterprise mental health benefits provider offering in-person and virtual therapy to employees of major U.S. employers. Overlaps with EMTC in California-based therapy delivery but competes for the same corporate-sponsored therapy demand at far greater scale.
• BetterHelp: Largest consumer-facing online therapy platform, offering subscription-based virtual therapy across all U.S. states. Competes for the same online-therapy California market and many of the same client demographics at a much larger marketing and price point.
• Talkspace: Public, nationwide online therapy and psychiatry platform accepting insurance and serving both consumers and enterprise clients. Direct competitor in California telehealth therapy, though with a generalist positioning rather than cultural-affirmation focus.

Others

• Open Path Mental Health: Nonprofit network of therapists offering reduced-fee sessions ($30–$80) nationwide. Adjacent comparator as a culturally inclusive therapy network that competes for cost-sensitive therapy clients in the same BIPOC-adjacent segment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/empoweredmindtherapy
• Facebookfacebook.com/empoweredmindtherapy
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/empowered-mind-therapy-center

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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