A Black male therapist in Atlanta, and online across five states
If you have been searching for someone who will not need the context explained to them first, that is a legitimate thing to want in a therapist. It is not a small preference. It is the difference between spending a session translating and spending it working.
Dr. Aaron J. Kimble · PhD · MA · MBA · LPC · NCC · Georgia #LPC014380
In person in Midtown Atlanta, or by secure video in GA, FL, VT, SC and NY.
Dr. Aaron J. KimblePhD from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. MA in Counseling, Northwestern. MBA.
Some things you should not have to translate
Plenty of good therapy happens across difference, and a therapist does not have to share your background to help you. But there is a particular kind of tiredness that comes from being the one who explains: what your grandmother meant, why that meeting felt the way it did, what it costs to be the only one on the floor, why leaving the church was not simple.
When you do not have to build that foundation first, the hour goes further. You get to bring the situation instead of the syllabus.
I am a Black man and a licensed therapist. I hold a PhD from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, an MA in Counseling from Northwestern, and an MBA, and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and National Certified Counselor with eight years in practice and more than 5,000 direct client hours. I see individuals, couples, and families, teens and adults, in person in Atlanta or virtually across five states.
I work with clients of every background. This page exists because many people are specifically looking for a Black male therapist and deserve a clear answer rather than a directory profile that makes them guess.
You might be here because
- You are functioning at a high level and quietly running on empty.
- You are the first or the only one in your role, and the pressure of representing never fully switches off.
- Code-switching all day has stopped feeling like a skill and started feeling like a cost.
- Something racial happened at work, and everyone around you has already moved on from it.
- Anger is showing up at home in ways you do not like, and you cannot locate the source.
- You were raised to handle things, and handling things has stopped working.
- You want to be a different kind of father than the one you had, and you are not sure how.
- Your family treats therapy as airing business outside the house.
- The church was home and also where you were hurt, and both are still true.
- Grief piled up during years when there was no room to feel it.
- You want a partner or a marriage that works, and the old playbook is not getting you there.
- You have thought about starting therapy for years and never made the call.
What we work on together
Racial stress and racism-related trauma
Discrimination, microaggressions, and the vigilance that comes with them, treated as real clinical material with real effects on sleep, mood, and the body. Not a tangent, and not something to get past quickly.
Being the first or the only
Representation fatigue, imposter feelings, and the calculation you run before speaking in every room. We separate what is actually yours to carry from what has been handed to you.
Masculinity and the cost of strength
What happens when strength was the only permitted emotion. Building a wider range without giving up the parts of yourself that have kept you standing.
Family, legacy, and expectation
Generational patterns, obligation, the relative everyone works around, and being the one who made it out. Family systems work for what gets passed down and what stops with you.
Fatherhood and partnership
Showing up as a partner and a parent on purpose rather than on instinct. Gottman Method couples work for conflict, repair, and rebuilding trust.
Faith, church, and religious wounding
Christian counseling for clients who want their faith in the room, and space for those whose faith community was a source of harm. Both taken seriously, neither assumed.
Achievement, burnout, and perfectionism
When your worth got welded to your output, success brings pressure instead of peace. Learning to perform from confidence rather than fear.
Anxiety, depression, and grief
The foundational work, using CBT, ACT, Internal Family Systems, somatic approaches, and psychodynamic therapy, chosen to fit you rather than a manual.
You do not have to arrive with the words for it. Bringing it in is the work. Naming it is what we do together.Dr. Aaron J. Kimble
How it works
A $25 consultation
Fifteen minutes, no pressure, and no requirement that you have it figured out. We are only deciding whether this feels like the right room.
A plan built together
Collaborative and personalized, drawing from CBT, ACT, IFS, Gottman, family systems, and somatic work depending on what you actually need.
In person or by video
The Midtown Atlanta office on Peachtree, or secure video from anywhere in GA, FL, VT, SC and NY. Many clients mix both.
If this is your first time in therapy
- You do not need a diagnosis, a crisis, or a prepared speech to book a consultation.
- You are not obligated to talk about childhood on day one, or ever, if it is not where the problem lives.
- Sessions are confidential, within the standard legal and ethical limits I will explain up front. Nothing goes back to your family, your employer, or your church.
- If it turns out I am not the right fit, I will say so and help you find someone who is.
Fees & Insurance
$185 / individual · $220 / couples
Initial consultation $25. In network with Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, CareSource, Cigna, Optum, and UnitedHealthcare. Sliding scale available.