Dr. Jeannelle Perkins-Muhammad
Licensed Family Therapist
"Every encounter, engagement, and experience with another person is an opportunity to hone your relationship skills. We create the desired relationships with our thoughts, emotions, words, and actions."
Dr. Jeannelle Perkins-Muhammad is a Psychotherapist and Licensed Family Therapist with more than 20 years of experience in relationship and life coaching. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland and Capella University. As an adjunct professor at The Citadel in Charleston, SC, she is a culturally competent therapist helping to establish a new generation of clinical counselors. Dr. Jeannelle is a Foundation Fellow of Roper St. Francis Hospital. She is a consultant on TVOne's hit show Fatal Attraction. Dr. Jeannelle has been featured in Skirt Magazine, Newsweek, Charleston Magazine, and Vice Magazine. She has been seen on the AFRO News Chicken Boxx, Divorce.com, Fox 24 Charleston, Lowcountry Live, Reicy G., and Her Point of View podcasts.
Dr. Jeannelle has her pulse on our community's mental and emotional health. She is licensed in GA, FL, NC, and SC. In her private group practice, they assist individuals, families, and couples; in rehabilitating, repairing, and revitalizing their commitment to authentic living as a characteristic for building healthy relationships and vibrant communities. She is compassionate, direct, and unapologetic in helping clients overcome their challenges. Her spiritual experience and evidence-based therapeutic approach are a hallmark of allowing you to change your life trajectory. Her recent book (purchase below), Into-Me-See, explores the cultural and personal factors that can make it challenging for Black couples to develop and maintain intimacy while offering solutions that strengthen their unity. Dr. Jeannelle is a capacity expander who believes "the greatest generational wealth that can be bestowed is mental and emotional wellness."
Dr. Jeannelle has been an entrepreneur for the majority of her life. She utilizes these skills to coach fellow entrepreneurs who aspire to develop and grow legacies in various capacities. Before becoming a licensed therapist, Dr. Jeannelle was the CEO of a prominent entertainment consulting company with offices in Washington, DC, Chicago, and Dallas, TX. They were nominated and received awards for the 2009 International Special Events Society Wedding Award Nominee; 2007, 2008 Maryland’s Top 100 Minority Business Enterprises; 2006 Maryland Top Minority Business Enterprise Award- Nominee; 2009, 2010 Winner of the Best of Frederick Award; 2007, 2008, 2009 Voted “The Knot Best of Weddings Pick” and 2006 Table Top Design” award for the Maryland Chapter of Association of Bridal Consultants. They were featured in Essence.com; Smart Company Magazine; Channel 4 News; Knot Wedding Pages; Premier Bride; Frederick News Post; Association of Bridal Consultants Dialogue; Washington Post Magazine; Baltimore Business Journal; Brief Case Magazine; Gaithersburg and Frederick Gazette; and Razors Edge Magazine. Seen on Get Married.com Television and “In Good Company” (Morgan State University Television) and heard on WEAA 88.9.
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Into-Me-See
Becoming intimate or nurturing intimacy with your partner seems like it should be easy. It can be. Yet, for some people, it is an arduous task that makes them feel very vulnerable. If you’ve ever had difficulty achieving this milestone in your relationship or thought you needed to raise your intimacy bar, I have three words: “you are right!” Kudos for actually acknowledging that there is a problem.
Being a licensed marriage and family therapist, I understand the intricacies of deep intimate exchange between two people who love, adore, and desire one another but, on most days, can’t seem to muster the fluidity of affection to create and sustain an intimate connection. I teach couples to flourish in intimate relationships. After having spent years helping couples resolve their intimacy mishaps and explore their intimacy needs, I am motivated to unveil the many untold truths regarding the myths and realities of intimacy between Black couples. Despite centuries of negative narratives about the closeness of Black couples, I use this medium to reveal what sometimes limits a couple's desire to actualize healthy intimacy.
Without harboring the desire to demonize anyone, I expose unspoken truths about the challenges to healthy intimate relationships. These challenges have always existed, but because no one is willing to talk with unrelenting honesty and depths of emotion, attaining complete intimacy remains an illusion in many relationships. James Baldwin once said, “Not everything that is faced will be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Intimacy is a desire couples are often unprepared to discuss, yet one they desperately need to live. It is oxygen to a relationship.
I hope In-To-Me-See accelerates the innate desire of Black couples toward intimacy. My aim with this book is to light the paths for couples on their journeys to discover their unique, intimate expressions.