Decolonizing Therapy
(aka Re-Indigenizing Therapy)Healing through Liberation, Connection, and Ancestral Wisdom
Request a ConsultationColonization has severed many of us from our ancestral knowledge — and our healing.
Colonization has severed many of us from our ancestral knowledge, land-based traditions, and indigenous ways of healing — whether through forced assimilation, displacement, or cultural erasure. These disconnections have shaped how we experience pain, how we make meaning of our struggles, and how we attempt to heal.
Much of what we call "mental illness" is a natural response to unnatural systems.
Racism, capitalism, ableism, patriarchy, colonialism, and more — these are not personal failures. They are systems. And our responses to them are not disorders. They are survival.
Decolonizing therapy is not a trend — it's a reclamation. It is a return to wholeness by recognizing what we have always known: healing is not separate from justice.
Decolonizing therapy is not a trend —
it's a reclamation.
It is a return to wholeness by recognizing that much of what we call "mental illness" is often a natural response to the unnatural systems we live under — racism, capitalism, ableism, patriarchy, colonialism, and more.
Eight commitments that shape every session.
These are not add-ons or optional frameworks — they are the foundation from which all of this work grows.
Acknowledging historical and intergenerational trauma
That continues to shape our nervous systems, relationships, and identities — named, not sidestepped.
Offering consent and choice at every step of the process
Your body, your story, your pace. Nothing moves faster than your nervous system is ready for.
Using affirming and liberatory language
That centers your humanity and wholeness rather than labels rooted in deficit or pathology.
Shifting from "what's wrong with you" to "what happened to you and what's around you?"
We're not here to fix you. We're here to support you in navigating, resisting, and healing from the oppressive systems that harm us.
Uplifting cultural and ancestral healing practices
As valid, powerful, and worthy of space in the therapeutic process — not as supplement, but as source.
Honoring the Indigenous cultures from which many somatic practices originated
By engaging with them respectfully and ethically — with reverence for their roots, not extraction from them.
Centering relational, communal ways of healing
Rather than pathologizing individual responses to systemic harm. Healing was never meant to be done alone.
Valuing well-being over productivity
You are not your output. Healing is not a performance. Rest is resistance. Your worth is not earned.
I do not position myself as the expert of your experience.
I walk beside you — offering tools, care, and culturally grounded presence. I invite your full self to the work: your stories, your ancestors, your practices, your questions, and your truth.
Rooted in land,
lineage, and truth.
I live and work on the ancestral lands of the Hitchiti and Muscogee (Creek) peoples, known today as Atlanta, Georgia. I honor their enduring presence and resistance.
As a descendant of African peoples, I am deeply rooted in my ancestral lineage, carrying both the pain and power of those who came before me.
My practice is grounded in equity, cultural humility, and systems understanding, always guided by the wisdom of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.
Equity & Cultural Humility
Always guided by the wisdom of BIPOC communities — not as tokenism, but as the center.
Systems Understanding
Recognizing that oppression is not abstract — it lives in bodies, relationships, and nervous systems.
Ethical Practice
Using Indigenous-rooted modalities with reverence, gratitude, and a commitment to not extracting without honoring.
Continuous Evolution
Committed to learning, unlearning, and evolving — because this work asks that of all of us.
I give deepest thanks and recognition to those who continue to shape my work and consciousness.
These are the healers, thinkers, and visionaries whose work, courage, and vision have shaped who I am as a practitioner and a human being:
I honor the Indigenous wisdom at the core of the modalities I use — Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), psychedelic medicine work, and inner child healing. I am committed to using these tools ethically, with reverence, and with gratitude for their roots.
Somatic Experiencing
Body-based trauma healing rooted in nervous system wisdom and the body's natural capacity to complete survival responses.
Internal Family Systems
Exploring the inner parts shaped by ancestral pain, cultural conditioning, and survival — with compassion, not correction.
EMDR
Reprocessing traumatic memories — including those tied to racial trauma, cultural erasure, and intergenerational wounds.
Psychedelic Medicine Work
Approached with deep reverence for the Indigenous traditions from which these practices originate, and held with care and intention.
Inner Child Healing
Meeting the younger parts of you that absorbed the messages of oppressive systems — and offering them the care they deserved then.
Sound Healing
Grounding and integration through crystal singing bowls and vibrational work — closing sessions by returning to the body.
I acknowledge the inner healing wisdom
gifted to me by my ancestors.
This inner wisdom allows me to continuously examine and deconstruct the internalized messages of oppressive systems. This inner work shapes how I hold space, how I support, and how I commit to learning and evolving with integrity.
This is not work I do to clients. It is work I do alongside them — as someone who is also in the process of healing, unlearning, and returning to wholeness.
Healing is not a performance.
It is a return to yourself.
By appointment only. Reach out to begin a conversation — your full self, your full story, your full truth are welcome here.
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