TAIFA MCLARIN, MS, APC, NCC

Taifa McLarin is an Associate Licensed Professional Counselor (APC) in the state of Georgia. In addition, she is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) through the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). Taifa is currently a PhD Psychology Candidate at Walden University with a Social Psychology specialization. Taifa’s experience includes working in hospice, social service agencies, and private practice. She has worked with clients ranging in age from 8 to 100 focusing on individual, couples, family, and group work. Her experience incorporates working with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, loss, bereavement, maternal mental health, women’s issues, life transition and aging, issues due to underdeveloped coping skills, an unhealthy perspective, in addition to trauma and inherited trauma from life experiences. Taifa has presented on topics including African American Women and Aging, and Black Maternal Mental Health. Taifa’s research interests that support positive implications for mental health include Black Women’s Maternal Mental Health, internalized oppression effecting mental health and life experiences of the African American populace, the intersectionality of Black women’s unique life experiences, and its effect on life satisfaction and interpersonal relationships, in addition to the linkage between self-fulfilling prophecy and individual behaviors.