With Heart With Soul Therapy LCSW PLLC

04/08/2026

We’re looking forward to joining this wellness experience later this month! Grab your free tickets and a self-care basket ASAP

Registration is now open for our 3rd annual Self Care Sunday 💗💗 Reserve your free ticket today! The first 100 to reserve will get a free self care basket 🫶🏾 Link in bio!

04/08/2026

03/18/2026

To help meet the need of amazing clients seeking heart-centered therapy…We’re honored to welcome Eleanor to the With Heart With Soul Therapy team 💖

✨ Meet Eleanor: An Authentic & Relatable Therapist ✨

Eleanor offers culturally affirming, down-to-earth care for adults who are carrying a lot, especially Black women navigating burnout, work-life imbalance, and the pressure to stay strong for everyone else. Her style is warm, direct, and relatable, creating space for honest conversations and meaningful growth. She is passionate about supporting clients who are balancing multiple roles such as single parent, caregiver, professional, student, partner, or the “go-to” person in their family or community.

Eleanor believes therapy should feel real and supportive while also helping you build boundaries, emotional resilience, and a stronger sense of balance in your daily life. Her approach centers respect, lived experience, and steady guidance as you work toward feeling more grounded and less overwhelmed.

Outside of sessions, Eleanor enjoys music, expressing herself through fashion, spending time with animals, and enjoying a tropical vacation.

If you’re looking for a therapist who understands pressure, keeps it honest, and will support you in prioritizing your own wellbeing, Eleanor may be a great fit.

✨ Now accepting new NYS therapy clients
🗓️Evening and weekend availability
🛋️ Virtual and in-person sessions available
💳In Network with Aetna and Excellus and courtesy out-of-network insurance billing
🔗 Request a free 15min consultation with Eleanor using the link in our bio

03/18/2026

It’s Social Work & Women’s History Month and I’m feeling especially tender and sentimental. 🤎

I absolutely love this photo; on one side my mama is standing beside her mother in her cap and gown: strong, determined, compassionate and about to dedicate 30 years of her life in service as a social worker.

On the other, it’s me years later… walking a path that was planted before I took my first breath, as I was literally growing in her womb while she sat in the classes at the same university I would learn from, within the city I would eventually root in.

Social work was never just a career choice for me.
It was modeled in what I witnessed first hand throughout my lifetime as the quiet sacrifices she made for her clients and students, the late nights, the stories she carried home in her heart and yet still poured her love into me, and the way she believed deeply that people (especially children and families) deserve support, dignity, and opportunity. She showed me that this work is both sacred and practical… rooted in compassion, advocacy, and courage.

Today, I have the honor of leading a team of brilliant LMSWs and LCSWs who show up every single day for healing, equity, and transformation. We sit with grief, pain, and trauma. We celebrate breakthroughs. We challenge systems, and we hold hope when others cannot.

Historically, Social workers have always been on the front lines of social change from settlement houses and civil rights movements, to schools, hospitals, community agencies, and eventually private practices like mine. We are bridge-builders, cycle-breakers, truth-tellers, and space-holders. We help individuals heal while also working to reshape the conditions that create suffering in the first place.

I carry deep pride in this profession and in the lineage I come from.
This work lives in my blood, my story, and my purpose. Hence, is just that, from my heart and soul to this community. 💖

To every social worker who is pouring into others right now your impact ripples farther than you may ever see.
And to my mom (who is now happily retired)… thank you for planting the seed and being exemplary within this profession. 🌱💜

03/10/2026

✨ Meet Nikki: A Heart-Centered Therapist ✨

We’re excited to welcome Nikki Robords, LCSW, to the With Heart With Soul Therapy team! 💖

Nikki brings over a decade of experience in the mental health field, including nine years in a residential setting and several years in clinical practice since graduating from Syracuse University in 2018. Her style is genuine, empathetic, and purposeful, creating a supportive space where clients can feel comfortable being themselves while working toward meaningful change.

Nikki takes a person-centered approach to therapy, recognizing that growth looks different for everyone. She balances encouragement with honest feedback, helping clients build practical skills, gain insight, and move forward with greater confidence. Sometimes you need someone cheering you on, and sometimes you need someone to help you see things from a new perspective. Nikki brings both.

Outside of the therapy room, Nikki spends most of her time with her husband and two kids. She also enjoys baking, spending time with friends, and winding down with a favorite comfort show.

If you’re looking for a therapist who will meet you where you are, keep it real, and support your growth along the way, Nikki might be a great fit.

✨ Now accepting new NYS therapy clients
🗓 Evening availability
📍 In-person in downtown Syracuse and virtual sessions available
💻 Affordable out-of-pocket rates & insurance billing
🔗 Request to work with Nikki using the contact form in bio

WHWS

03/07/2026

Choose your hard:

You can wait around for people to recognize your worth,
or you can invest in your own value.

You can keep shrinking yourself to make everyone comfortable,
or you can take up the space that was always yours.

You can keep explaining, proving, over-giving, and hoping it will finally be enough,
or you can decide that your enoughness isn’t up for debate.

You can keep staying where you’re tolerated because it feels familiar,
or you can choose environments that actually see you.

You can keep bending yourself into what people expect,
or you can build a life that reflects who you really are.

None of these choices are easy.
But one of them slowly costs you yourself.

Because sometimes choosing yourself means disappointing people.

Sometimes it means leaving what’s comfortable, what’s expected, what everyone assumes you’ll keep doing.

For me, that meant stepping away from community mental health after years of service and investing fully into the practice and vision I’ve been building at With Heart With Soul Therapy.

People may not always understand the choice.
But choosing alignment over approval will always be worth it. 💜