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Kevin Williams (Career and Legacy)

Kevin Andrew Williams was a professional counselor and trauma therapist whose practice focused on survivors of police violence, racial trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, LGBTQ+-affirming care, and grief and bereavement.

Career Overview

Kevin entered trauma-focused counseling after receiving treatment for PTSD following the June 2019 police-violence incident. During the crisis, an officer pointed a service weapon at the unarmed sixteen-year-old while Kevin was helping Marcus Henderson through a mental-health emergency.

Education and Licensure

Kevin completed a master’s degree in counseling. He first practiced under Maryland’s Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor credential and later became a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor after completing the required supervised clinical practice. The institutions and exact dates of his education, graduate credential, supervised-practice period, and independent licensure have not been established.

Clinical Practice

Kevin worked at the West Baltimore Community Mental Health Center. His caseload included survivors of police violence and other systemic abuse, clients living with PTSD, young Black men and boys, LGBTQ+ clients, and people navigating grief and loss. His grief work was informed in part by his father Derek’s death from leukemia when Kevin was thirteen.

Kevin’s clinical approach included Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Narrative Therapy, grounding techniques, and somatic techniques. His practice treated racism, poverty, and police violence as legitimate sources of trauma rather than reducing their effects to individual pathology. He used selective, boundaried self-disclosure when it served a therapeutic purpose.

Professional Website and Access

Kevin’s professional website identified the West Baltimore Community Mental Health Center as his practice location, described his services and therapeutic approaches, and offered sliding-scale fees. It explicitly identified his practice as LGBTQ+ affirming and addressed cost, stigma, and fear of vulnerability as barriers to care.

The website also disclosed Kevin’s personal connection to the work:

“I was born and raised in West Baltimore. I understand firsthand what it means to navigate a world that sees you as a threat before it sees you as human. In 2019, I experienced police violence that left me with severe PTSD. I became a therapist because I wanted to be for others what my therapist was for me.”

Kevin described his role in sustaining hope during trauma recovery:

“Healing is possible. And it’s okay that some days you don’t believe that. I’ll hold the hope until you can hold it yourself.”

Public Advocacy

After Tre Martin was critically injured during the November 2026 Camp Pendleton incident, multiple news outlets interviewed Kevin about Tre’s history of protecting others and the Survivors’ shared experiences. The renewed attention increased the visibility of Kevin’s practice and of the long-term mental-health effects of police violence.

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