Founder, Counselor, and Leader
Shenitha Hinton, LPC, NCC, created Mending Bridges and The Bridge Collective as a home for healing that honors both personal stories and the systems that shape them. Over more than seven years, she has served as a Clinical Director, Clinical Supervisor, university-based Minority Mental Health Counselor, and preceptor for psychiatric nurse practitioner students.
Her counseling is grounded in Person-Centered and Liberation Psychology frameworks, with advanced training in DBT, Lifespan Integration, and Gottman Method couples work. As a Black, liberation-oriented clinician, she holds space for complex identities, trauma, and resilience, inviting clients into compassionate, accountable, and deeply collaborative work.
How Our Bridge Began
Our counseling work grew out of years in community mental health, higher education, and clinical leadership, where we witnessed both deep pain and powerful resilience across diverse individuals, couples, and families.
Values Guiding Every Session
We center emotional safety, cultural humility, and liberation, honoring how racism, sexism, queerphobia, classism, and other systems shape mental health, while nurturing agency, connection, and authentic self-expression in the therapy space.
Growing Bridges Across Alabama
Through counseling, supervision, trainings, and groups, we support individuals, couples, families, professionals, and communities across Alabama, inviting each person into collaborative, evidence-based care that honors identity and lived experience.