Yanique Grant-Buchanan is a trauma therapist who specializes in race-based trauma, and multicultural identity. She has been working in the field of mental health since 2009. She is compassionate, empathetic, and very passionate about her role as a therapist. Her work includes individual therapy, couples’ therapy, group therapy, and intensive outpatient treatments. She also has a passion for developing trainings and group curriculums centered on complex trauma. Yanique prides herself in her experience working with individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds and being able to identify with them in various ways. In addition to continuing her work in the community through nonprofit agencies and in the education system through schools, Yanique began her private practice, Courage to Be LLC, to focus on her specialty in complex trauma. She is also very active in her community by engaging in various grass roots organizations and in 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and racial turmoil, she was one of the founding members of the CT BIPOC Mental Health and Wellness Initiative, which has hosted various free educational forums to the community on health and mental health. Yanique is well versed in various therapeutic models and works with clients of all backgrounds who are seeking to focus on identity work, to develop a deeper understanding of themselves as it relates to the complexity of race, culture, and ethnicity. Yanique holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Social Work with a clinical concentration of Health and Mental Health in Children & Families.