Jummy Therapy & Counseling

Jummy Therapy & Counseling Jummy utilizes narrative therapy, cognitive behavior therapy and
motivational interviewing approaches. Jummy's goals are:
1. Unleash your untapped potential
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Jummy is a dynamic speaker, life coach, Licensed Independent Professional Counselor with extensive international and multicultural life experience and education. She specializes in individual, couples, and marriage therapy, multicultural counseling, parenting support, career coaching and life coaching. Jummy believes that therapy and coaching is a collaborative process that involves the individual

, his or her community of support and a supportive nonjudgmental therapist/coach. As a speaker, life coach and therapist, Jummy creates a positive, motivational and conducive environment that facilitates the healing and growth of her clients. Help you navigate through life and difficult circumstances
2 Offer hope and encouragement
3. Connect you with your gifts and life calling.

Accepting that your capacity has changed is a form of self-compassion and a radical act of kindness. It grounds you in r...
06/15/2026

Accepting that your capacity has changed is a form of self-compassion and a radical act of kindness. It grounds you in reality, slowing you down enough to acknowledge that you cannot outwork or outperform your body's capacity.

Psychological and emotional setbacks have ramifications that extend beyond our feelings. After a major emotional blow, it takes time for the body and nervous system to regain their footing.

Your attention span may be shorter, your energy lower, and your resilience, the ability to bounce back as quickly as before, may be diminished.

Life’s curveballs rarely align with the functionality of our nervous system, yet it is important that we acknowledge this truth. Even when the world is unkind and moving at a pace we cannot sustain, we can choose self-kindness instead.

The truth is, after a major setback, we are no longer the same. And rather than fighting that reality, we can honor it with compassion and patience as we heal. If you need support navigating this new space, please reach out and I will connect you with one of our clinicians.

As a therapist, I often tell clients that you cannot judge your past self by the standards of the person you’ve become. ...
05/20/2026

As a therapist, I often tell clients that you cannot judge your past self by the standards of the person you’ve become. Yet somehow, this has remained one of my own deepest stuck points.

I recently shared with someone that one of the quiet pressures of being a therapist, someone who helps people live healthier, fuller lives, is wrestling with the fact that when it was time to face my own struggles, I could not help myself in the ways I thought I should have been able to.

What I didn’t realize was how much I carried the weight of my profession into my personal life. I judged myself not just by what I personally knew, but by what I was professionally trained to recognize.
And self-forgiveness becomes difficult when you begin to see the ways you abandoned yourself. The ways you betrayed your own needs, ignored your own pain, and minimized your own humanity.

It is easier to direct anger outward for what was done to you than to sit with the grief of what you allowed, tolerated, or normalized at your own expense.
That kind of reckoning is painful.

But lately, I’ve been leaning deeply into radical acceptance and self-compassion. Because self-compassion allows us to hold judgment and mercy at the same time. Mercy for the blind spots. Mercy for the immaturity. Mercy for the survival strategies. Mercy for the naïveté. Mercy for the version of ourselves that was simply trying to make it through with the tools we had at the time.

Self-compassion makes room for our humanness instead of punishing ourselves endlessly with self-criticism.
And I am learning that while forgiveness of others may not always be necessary for healing, self-forgiveness is.

Happy Mother’s Day! I’m so grateful, not just for my amazing mom, but for the incredible women who have mothered me alon...
05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day!
I’m so grateful, not just for my amazing mom, but for the incredible women who have mothered me along the way. My sister, my friends…women who have loved me, supported me, and even poured that same love into my children.

The other day, my son called while I was tied up with work. I told him if it was urgent, he could reach out to his “aunties” - my sister and a few close friends he knows and trusts. He said he could wait, but in that moment, I felt something so special… the comfort of knowing I have a village I trust to step in with love whenever needed, to mother my children in my absence. That’s a blessing I never take for granted!

One of those women is my dear friend Kanyin, truly one of my favorite humans. We’ve been friends for over 15 years, through every high and low. A few days ago, she reached out to plan a Mother’s Day brunch for me. Knowing her, I’m sure she just wanted to make sure I wasn’t alone today. She planned a beautiful rooftop, laughter, love… such a perfect day.

I am deeply loved, and I don’t take it lightly. Today, I celebrate Kanyin and every woman who has poured into me. I see you. I honor you. I love you. I celebrate you. Happy Mother’s Day!

Hope Thrives in Chaos — Part 2I learned early that misapplied hope can destroy people.Growing up in Nigeria, my dad work...
05/07/2026

Hope Thrives in Chaos — Part 2
I learned early that misapplied hope can destroy people.

Growing up in Nigeria, my dad worked for the Railway Ministry. Every morning, he put on his suit and went to work with dignity, even while going months, then years, without being paid.
Occasionally, they’d receive a few months’ salary, just enough to keep hope alive before the silence started again.

What kept many of them there was hope. Hope that leadership would eventually do the right thing. Hope that because they had already invested so much, leaving would mean losing even more.

But the pattern was already clear.
People who can watch you work, suffer, and struggle to feed your family for months without paying you are not suddenly going to develop moral clarity after a year or two.

Many of his peers deteriorated under the weight of survival, heartbreak, depression, hunger, and alcoholism.
That experience taught me: when confusion is present, stop feeding hope and start studying the pattern.
Patterns tell the truth long before hope is willing to accept it.

Nothing keeps us working harder in relationships than confusion. The ups and downs, mixed signals, inconsistency, that’s...
05/07/2026

Nothing keeps us working harder in relationships than confusion. The ups and downs, mixed signals, inconsistency, that’s what keeps hope alive. Because as long as there’s uncertainty, we keep believing maybe things will change.

On good days, we minimize the bad. On bad days, we hold onto the memory of the good and call it a “rough patch.”
What I’ve learned is this: data/patterns tell the truth. Chaos keeps us emotionally invested, but patterns are descriptive, and informative. They help us make grounded decisions.

I’m not saying abandon all hope. I’m saying be careful where you place it. In unhealthy dynamics, hope can quietly become the thing that keeps us stuck waiting for change that never comes.
Patterns don’t lie.

Perfectionism often looks like excellence… but it quietly breeds self-neglect.If you’ve been here a while, you’ve probab...
04/25/2026

Perfectionism often looks like excellence… but it quietly breeds self-neglect.

If you’ve been here a while, you’ve probably heard me call myself a recovering perfectionist. What I’ve learned on this journey is that perfectionism robs us of our humanity. It asks us to overgive, overperform, and overextend, then leaves us feeling unseen, resentful, and exhausted. We end up playing the martyr, wondering why our needs aren’t met.

But the hard truth? We were the first to dismiss them. Perfectionism requires self-abandonment. We become the builder for everyone else, holding it all together, fixing, showing up, pushing through, while quietly running on empty.

We struggle to say no.

We avoid disappointing others, normalize being tired, unappreciated, and disconnected from ourselves.

But self-neglect isn’t harmless. It impacts our mental and physical health. It teaches us to stay quiet when we should speak, shrink when we should expand, sit when we should stand.

And over time, it teaches others to treat us the same way we treat ourselves.
The first step in recovery is awareness. Notice your automatic “yes.” Pause.

Ask yourself: Is this aligned with what I actually feel?

Pay attention to the anxiety that shows up when you try to honor your truth. That discomfort? It’s part of unlearning. Recovering from perfectionism is sobering work. But it’s also freeing.
#614

I had the honor of celebrating my friend a couple of days ago at her counseling practice’s open house. Rikki is the own...
04/22/2026

I had the honor of celebrating my friend a couple of days ago at her counseling practice’s open house. Rikki is the owner of Ruby Counseling in Columbus. Rikki and I go waaay back! We attended seminary together as counseling students, and it is wonderful that we are both owners of a counseling group practice. If you need a counseling resource, I strongly recommend that you check out Ruby Counseling. Rikki, I am so proud of you!

The recent headlines around intimate partner violence have been heavy, notably the murder of Dr. Cerina Fairfax. Not jus...
04/18/2026

The recent headlines around intimate partner violence have been heavy, notably the murder of Dr. Cerina Fairfax. Not just because of the tragedy they represent, but because of what they stir up in the bodies and memories of those who have lived through it.

For many survivors of IPV (Intimate Partner Violence), news like this doesn’t feel distant. It feels personal. It can bring back the tightness in your chest, the hypervigilance, the quiet calculations you once had to make just to stay safe. It can remind you of how real the danger was, and in some ways, still feels.

So many survivors were taught to endure in silence. To keep things private. To protect the image of the relationship, the family, the community. Some were told to pray harder, to be more patient, to hold everything together. And in that silence, the harm was often minimized, dismissed, or hidden. The silence will eventually be weaponized by the perpetrator and their supporters

IPV is not about mental illness, though that can be present as well. It is about power, control, and entitlement. And that reality is what makes it so complex, and at times, so dangerous.

For those who have survived it, safety can feel fragile, even long after the relationship has ended. There can be a lingering sense that something could happen, a quiet fear that never fully disappears. That doesn’t mean you’re broken. It means your body remembers what it had to do to protect you.

If this news has brought things back up for you, if it’s unsettled you, frightened you, or made you feel like the ground beneath you isn’t as steady as you thought, it makes sense.

You are not overreacting. You are not “back at square one.” You are responding to a reminder of something your system learned was life-threatening. And even with that truth, it also matters to say: you are here. You survived. You made it through something that required strength most people will never fully understand.

If today feels heavy, take it gently. You deserve care, and support. Feel free to each out to me for support. I see you. #614

It takes courage to not perform healing when people are watching.The end of 2023 through 2025 stretched me in ways I did...
04/17/2026

It takes courage to not perform healing when people are watching.
The end of 2023 through 2025 stretched me in ways I didn’t expect—it was emotionally brutal. I stepped away and chose solitude, not from fear or shame, but for the first time in years… to simply stop performing.
I gave myself permission to rest. To grieve. To care for my heart.
Sometimes the people who love us want us to heal faster than our nervous system allows. And sometimes we place that same pressure on ourselves, to prove we’re okay, or even “better than before.” But often, that becomes a performative healing and recovery rather than the deep, uncomfortable work healing actually requires.
These days, I’m softer. I’m laughing more. I feel more grounded in myself. Yes, I lost momentum, especially here, but I needed that time. So that when I returned, I could show up fully for my friends, family, followers, and this community.
I’m coming home to myself… and it feels good.
If you’re in a season of quiet healing, I see you. There is no rush.
I hope you’ll join me as I step back into what I love—creating content rooted in hope, and growth. 🤍

Yesterday was the last day of the ACA conference, and the first person that I saw when I got to the venue was Dr. Lewis....
04/12/2026

Yesterday was the last day of the ACA conference, and the first person that I saw when I got to the venue was Dr. Lewis. The first thing she asked me was the status of my PhD, and immediately after explaining why I had a two-year break from writing, she offered her support and said, “What do you need? What can I help you with?” I appreciate her so much! She was one of my references and strongly advocated for me to pursue the PhD program at OU, and I received a full-ride scholarship. Thanks, Dr. Lewis, for your kindness and generosity. #614

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