“I became a counselor because of my own experiences as a client. I hope to give back what I received - a sense of hope and connection. It’s an honor to see people regain their sense of self and realize not only their worth but their potential. The journey towards a more holistically-well life begins with one step, one email, one phone call. I’m ready whenever you are.” - Brooklyn

The Licensed Professional Counselor (MS #2555) and BC-TMH (#3193) behind Black Sheep Counseling is Brooklyn Michelle Sellers. Sellers is a two-time graduate of The University of Mississippi, having graduated with a BA in Psychology in 2015 and a M.Ed. in Counselor Education in 2017. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Counseling Association and the Mississippi Counseling Association. Sellers is also a member of several subgroups of ACA including ACAC (Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling), ACC (Association for Creativity in Counseling), and CSJ (Counselors for Social Justice). Prior to creating “BSC”, Sellers worked within the wild world of community mental health first as a school-based therapist and later as an outpatient mental health clinician. While working in community mental health, she gained experiences working with individuals of all ages, backgrounds, diagnoses, goals, and needs. Sellers briefly worked as part of a crisis response team, both as an on-call screener and as a pre-civil commitment accessor as trained by the MS Department of Mental Health. Later, Sellers worked as a therapist for a local nonprofit organization with the goal of providing neurodiversity-affirming socioemotional support to Autistic youth and their families.

Sellers considers herself a “generalist” rather than specializing with a particular population or diagnostic area. She believes this openness allows her to become a more flexible and knowledgeable counselor rather than allowing her an opportunity to operate on “auto pilot”. However, Sellers finds herself most drawn to cases involving topics of grief/loss/transition and identity development. Sellers works with children, teens, and adults but finds there to be a special place in her heart for angsty teenagers and for benevolent rebels of all ages who want to break cycles.

Sellers sees a connection between societal ailments and individual ones. As a result, she is dedicated to fighting injustice at both a micro- and macro- level as she believes it creates, sustains, and exacerbates the physical and emotional symptoms experienced by individuals. The mission is to not merely cope with pain but to eliminate or significantly reduce the causes of it.

Sellers is a self-proclaimed nerd of all things psychological and sociological. She sometimes entertains the idea of pursuing a Ph.D. in Sociology and of becoming a BQS (Board Qualified Supervisor)/LPC-S so that she can nurture new talent within the field of counseling. In recent years, Sellers has been moving away from CBT (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy) in lieu of more somatic-focused therapies. She plans to seek formalized training, supervision, and certification in either Somatic Experiencing or Sensorimotor Psychotherapy within the next year.

When she isn’t “on the clock”, Sellers enjoys listening to music (mostly rock-n-roll or 60s hits), completing crossword puzzles, watching true crime documentaries, reading, thrifting, cheering for the New Orleans Saints (or Cincinnati Bengals), traveling, doodling, exercising, getting manicures, spending time with her loved ones, and loving on her three feline sons (i.e., Mats, Count Chocula, and Kazoo).

We believe healing oftentimes requires us to question and remove ourselves from situations, institutions, intergenerational patterns, routines, and relationships that feel familiar but that cause us to compromise ourselves, our values, and our mental health. Healing makes us the “odd duckling”, “black sheep”, rebel, weirdo, outsider, etc. because it causes us to think, feel, and (most importantly) act differently than the norm (or more aptly, “abnorm”) surrounding us.