Rolanda Brown, LMFT

Senior Staff Clinician

ROLANDA BROWN

ROLANDA BROWN, LMFTshe/her/hers

About Rolanda

Rolanda Brown is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose work is grounded in a simple truth: healing is the restoration of right relationship with Self, not the management of symptoms. She works in the territory most people are taught to move past quickly — the gap between who you are in the world and who you are underneath it, the kind of depletion that has no obvious cause and no easy name, the quiet recognition that the life you have built is not the one that fits.

She works primarily with Black women, and welcomes women across cultural backgrounds whose experience meets her in this same territory. The patterns are familiar. Over-functioning. Self-abandonment. Parts of self that once kept them safe but are now keeping them small, and at a distance from who they actually are. Together, she and her clients slow down enough to see what's underneath. The work is unhurried, honest, and grounded in a deep regard for each client's own pace.

For many of these women, this is not a return to a former self. It is an emergence into who they have always been — a Self many were never given the conditions to know. Some bring faith to this work, in seasons that are solid, strained, or rebuilding; Rolanda holds that part of the territory with the same care she holds the rest.

Rolanda's conviction underneath all of this is simple. So many people have learned to live outside of themselves — adapting, performing, over-giving — while losing connection to who they truly are. The work, then, is not to become someone new. It is to discover who you are, build the capacity to stay there, and learn how to live in alignment with the truth of what you find.

Rolanda has held both clinical and leadership roles at Skylight for over nine years, including service as Director of Counseling and Chief Clinical Officer, where she shaped care delivery, supervision, and program development. She holds a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and a Master of Science in Psychology.

Contact

847.529.8300 x 102

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