My name is Sauda Welch and I am the owner and operator of Inner G Wellness & Counseling. I am a licensed mental health therapist in Maryland, Reiki master, and holistic wellness coach. As a therapist I specialize in depression, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions.
As a coach, I help black women who feel emotionally and spiritually drained find mental clarity. I do this by teaching them how to strengthen their intuition through mindfulness so that they can stay grounded when stressful situations happen, define and follow through on goals, and understand and balance empathic tendencies.
I offer a wide range of services including mental health therapy, wellness coaching programs, reiki healing, and workshops.
What do I do?
Coming from a strength based perspective, I believe everyone already has the tools they need for healing. With me, clients learn to identify, confront, and develop all aspects of themselves that cause distress and find the motivation to make long lasting changes. Throughout the process, I provide my clients with a relaxed and safe environment to work through fear, guilt, shame, and other negative influences that block their Inner G!
Why do I do it?
If we all had a mission for our time on Earth, I KNOW my calling is to educate. Maybe not in a traditional sense, but I have always had a passion for helping others, especially women, succeed and find their happiness. I like to motivate other and help them change their mindset and idea of who they are and what they are capable of.
How do I do It?
I use many tools in various roles to help integrate and align mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of client's lives.
Therapy: The majority of my therapy clients seek solution focused brief therapy which can resolve issues in as little as 90 minutes. Others, who deal with severe mental health disorders and other are more long term and focus on resolving issues from the past.
Coaching: Coaching is provided either individually or in a group setting. Coaching programs are highly directed and are result based. These proven programs are aimed at gaining mindfulness skills to gain emotional balance, (The Mindful Goddess Program, The Goddess Attunement Workshop) and identifying values to set and accomplish goals. (The Motivated Goddess Program).
Reiki: Most of my clients come for chakra understanding, balancing and healing. New clients complete an initial total body energy scan & balance and return on a regular basis to resolve any deep seated imbalances or blocks.
Some of the interventions that I find helpful in the process are, meditation, journaling, and insight and skill building activities between sessions. My style is very versatile and I am able to adapt to each client's unique needs.
If any of the below statements apply to you, book you free discovery call so we can work through it together.
I sometimes feel lonely, even when surrounded by people.
I am sad much of the time and don’t have interest in anything.
My sleeping and eating habits are not normal.
I feel my emotions too much or I don’t feel my emotions at all.
I am very nervous when I am around others, even in places where I go frequently.
I worry about death and dying even when I am medically well.
I am experiencing something new in my life and I don’t know how to cope.
I get angry easily and it is hard for me to say how I feel.
I have experienced terrible things that have changed who I think I am.
I want to understand my spiritual side but I don’t know where to start.
Inner G is a play on the word energy. It is a reminder that how you choose to focus your energy will either grow or diminish the Greatness/Goddess/Gangsta in you!
Coaching is better for those who are emotionally and mentally healthy. It focuses on a goal of higher functioning, and is centered in the present while looking towards the future. It explores solutions and is result based, while being goal driven and centered around taking action.
Types of coaching we provide: Mindfulness & Meditation Goal Setting & Motivation
Therapy focuses on your sense of being, thinking, and feeling and how a you relate the world around you. Its focus is to identify, diagnose, and treat nervous and mental disorders. The goals include alleviating symptoms, understanding the underlying personality dynamics which create symptoms, changing the dysfunctional behaviors which are the result of these disorders, and helping patients to cope with their psychological problems.
Holistic therapy focuses on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects person. It looks at you as a whole and tries to find the root of your distress and dis-ease, both emotional and psychological. A holistic therapist may work closely with other practitioners including your Primary Care Physician, nutritionist, coaches, etc. to get a universal understanding of your health.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) focuses on behavior and thinking while looking for the root cause of damaging or unhealthy behaviors. It helps give you the tools to change the thinking and behaviors that are harmful, and replaces them with useful, healthy thoughts and behaviors. Unlike Traditional therapy, is present and future oriented, and is very much action based. Clients are given "homework" after each session to be discussed in subsequent session to assess progress. CBT addresses a number of issues including depression, anxiety, trauma, and other mood disorders.
Reiki is hands-on natural healing using the universal life force energy.
It comes from the Japanese words “rei” (universal) and “ki” (life energy). Reiki aims to help the flow of energy and remove blocks in a similar way to acupuncture or acupressure. Improving the flow of energy around the body. Reiki can aid relaxation, assist in the body’s natural healing processes, and develop emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. It can also induce deep relaxation, help people cope with difficulties, relieve emotional stress, and improve overall wellbeing.
Reiki is very versatile as it can be done in person or remotely. While many people prefer an in-person session, a distance session is able to provide the same benefits. The distance symbol is used to cross any distance in time or space. It allows practitioners to clear blockages from someone's past, as well as perform reiki on someone who is not physically present. A distant healing session can be done in a number of ways. The practitioner can use a proxy, use visualization, or use a projection of Reiki to send Reiki energy to someone else.
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, people use Reiki for relaxation, stress reduction and symptom relief, and to improve overall health and well-being.
A Reiki treatment may do the following: Bring about a peaceful, deep state of relaxation
Dissolve energy blockages and tension
Detoxify the body
Support the well-being of a person receiving traditional medical treatments that are debilitating (e.g., chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, kidney dialysis)
Supply universal life force energy to the body
Stimulate the body’s immune system
Help to relieve pain
Stimulate tissue and bone healing after injury or surgery
Increase the vibrational frequency
For those who are unable to work with me one on one, I am developing online courses that will be released soon. Sign up for my mailing list to receive discounts and special offers when the courses become available.
Course topics include: Understanding the relationship between thoughts and emotions
Shadow Work
Mindfulness and meditation
Cultivating happiness
Chakras
Universal Law Application
I am currently In network with Care First Blue Cross Blue Shield and Cigna. You are responsible in contacting your insurance carrier and know what your benefits include.
Due to the restrictive nature of practice (some treatment modalities are not covered as well as a maximum number of sessions provided) and diagnosis requirement, most of my clients choose to pay out of pocket. This offers much more freedom and flexibility in treatment.
Schedule a Discovery Call if you have any questions about payment and fees.
Most of our programs. packages, and workshops have a payment plan available.
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