Virtual coaching available nationwide and internationally
Life and business coaching for people navigating change. This work is also for the professionals, caregivers, and leaders who spend their lives supporting others.
60-minute sessions from $125 · Saturdays, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET
Especially welcoming
Meet your coach
Denise T. Taylor, MBA, MSW, LMSW, CLC brings business leadership, clinical perspective, and practical coaching together to help people move forward without losing themselves in the process.
Black woman therapist in Maryland
If you are searching for a Black woman therapist in Maryland or a Black woman life coach who brings warmth, practical structure, and lived leadership experience, The Brave Centre can help you find the right next step.
Denise provides therapy through affiliated Maryland practices and offers coaching nationwide and internationally through The Brave Centre. The work supports anxiety, boundaries, life transitions, emotional wellness, leadership, burnout, and personal growth.
Choose your next step
Every engagement combines thoughtful conversation, motivational interviewing principles, practical strategy, and consistent accountability.
Clarity through change
Move through personal or professional change with greater clarity, confidence, and a plan grounded in what matters most to you.
Momentum with support
Turn good intentions into consistent action with honest reflection, practical structure, and dependable accountability.
Lead with purpose
Build and lead with courage without losing yourself in the work of caring for, serving, and guiding others.
The Brave Centre approach
The Brave Centre helps people move through change, overcome procrastination, and turn meaningful goals into consistent action. Together, we identify what is keeping you stuck, clarify what matters most, and create realistic next steps.
The work is warm, direct, and collaborative. There is space for reflection and a clear expectation that insight becomes action.
What guides the work
Meet change honestly and take the next meaningful step.
Build the clarity and confidence to make choices for yourself.
Create space for the full human being behind every goal.
Lead, live, and grow in alignment with who you truly are.
Choose progress that is practical, sustainable, and yours.
Offer a respectful, grounded environment for reflection and change.
Client words
“Everyone has an audience… you have an audience.”
Dr. Malaika Turner“I show up more grounded, more organized, and more sure of myself.”
Anyea Nicks“She creates a space where every woman feels seen, safe, and encouraged to grow.”
Michele DensonExplore more
Compare three focused coaching services, with 60-minute sessions starting at $125.
Visit the Coaching page Virtual therapy in MarylandChoose the correct clinical practice based on your insurance or payment pathway.
Visit the Therapy page Client storiesRead what clients have shared about finding clarity, courage, and momentum through coaching with Denise.
Visit the Testimonials page Before you beginReview service areas, session pricing, booking, coaching boundaries, and the difference between coaching and therapy.
Visit the FAQs page Personalized reflectionRequest a guided journal with prompts, affirmations, grounding practices, and brave action steps for your current season.
Explore Custom Journals Not sure what fits?Choose the right path for therapy, coaching, custom journals, free resources, or speaking and consulting.
Find your next step Therapy supportLearn about Maryland therapy pathways and Brave Centre resources for anxiety, overthinking, and emotional regulation.
Explore Anxiety Therapy Virtual coachingFind nationwide or international coaching support for life transitions, motivation, boundaries, accountability, and personal growth.
Explore Life CoachingHelpful answers
The Brave Centre supports life transitions, personal growth, motivation, accountability, business leadership, workplace culture, burnout prevention, and emotional wellness education.
Denise provides therapy to clients located in Maryland through affiliated clinical practices. The Brave Centre itself is used for coaching, speaking, consulting, education, and resources.
Coaching focuses on goals, clarity, decisions, accountability, leadership, and next steps. Therapy addresses mental health treatment, diagnosis, clinical care, and treatment planning through a licensed practice.
Yes. Denise offers speaking, non-clinical group facilitation, and consulting for organizations, practice owners, leaders, teams, and care-centered communities.
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Looking for therapy?
Therapy is available only to clients located in Maryland and is provided separately through affiliated clinical practices, not through The Brave Centre. Eligibility, insurance, intake, and treatment are handled directly by the selected practice.
Medicaid & Medical Assistance
Connect with CL Counseling to confirm coverage, availability, and clinical intake.
Review the Medicaid pathwayCommercial insurance, Medicare & self-pay
Visit Ellie Mental Health in North Potomac to review services and request an appointment.
If you are experiencing a mental health emergency, call or text 988 or call 911. The Brave Centre is not a crisis service.
A free Brave Reflection Guide
A warm, practical workbook for staying present without absorbing every pressure, problem, or responsibility around you. Use the check-ins, reflection prompts, and boundary language whenever caring starts to feel like carrying.
Brave Notes opens a ready-to-send email so you stay in control of joining.
The Brave Journal
Subscribe for journal entries on anxiety, life transitions, boundaries, leadership, courage, and personal growth.
Your next step can be brave and practical.
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