Tina Abraham is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, writer, and self-described birder of humans — she watches the patterns people don’t know they’re making. She has spent two decades in rooms where people finally say the thing they’ve never said out loud. It turns out that’s its own kind of training.

She grew up moving. Countries. Cultures. Versions of herself that didn’t always translate. The kind of rootlessness that gets mistaken for worldliness. It shows up everywhere in her writing.

Her debut work, Tiger Slippers, is an autobiographical novel about a life lived between belonging and performance, between being seen and being arranged. It is not a story about healing. It resists that. It stays with the slower, less marketable work of learning to recognize yourself.

She holds private practices in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina, and Washington DC. She works as an executive coach and consultant, and provides clinical oversight for AI-enabled mental health platforms — with a steady suspicion of anything that promises transformation without cost.

She writes the Substack newsletter StayHuman Living, where she publishes prose poetry from the clinical room, field notes, and brief dispatches from the ongoing project of being human.

She lives near the water. She watches birds. She is paying attention.