I am a clinically trained therapist who uses a holistic approach because it treats the whole person, and promotes individual growth and stability. I serve as a change agent that provides support and empathetic understanding allowing clients to gain new awareness of themselves which facilitate health and healing.

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Rayna Smaller is a licensed social worker and founder of BrownGirl SPACE. Rayna works primarily with children and families. Rayna created BrownGirl SPACE to encourage Black women to prioritize their own mental health, self care and well being.

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Shakera is a birth and postpartum doula and reiki practitioner serving Philadelphia and surrounding areas. Shakera’s work centers care for black and brown, queer, and or neurodivergent parents and individuals. She is invested in providing support where evidence based care is just as important as intention and intuition.

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Ricquel is a holistic person-centered Trauma Counselor with a specialization in Art Therapy at Sankofa Healing Studio. Her passion is rooted in uplifting the community, dismantling the negative views of mental health and spreading awareness about the benefits of art, somatic modalities, and psychotherapy in the Black community. Ricquel strongly believes that art and creative expression are powerful healing tools that can lower anxiety and stress while improving overall health. 

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Katherine Evering-Rowe, LCSW is a relational psychotherapist in Philadelphia, PA. She works with adults and specializes in supporting queer folks of color in their processes of healing from relational traumas and experiences of marginalization. Her therapeutic approach is informed by an unwavering commitment to anti-oppressive frameworks and her personal investment in Black feminism.

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ASHLEY CHILDS, BA, CLINICAL COUNSELING INTERN is a certified yoga instructor, and Reiki Practitioner at Sankofa Healing Studio. She is passionate about improving the holistic health of the Black community as it relates to healing from trauma using somatic and energy based modalities. Her approach integrates EMDR, Brainspotting, the healing properties of yoga, meditation, and a plant-based way of living. Her specialties including working with system impacted youth and adults who have experienced childhood trauma.

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I am Shanice, a spiritual wellness educator. I help people release the feelings of being anxious, overworked and overwhelmed through the practices of Pause. 

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Mx. Lena Queen (she/they/Queen), LCSW, M.Ed, a Black Queer womxn, hippie & SistaSexologist, with over 18 years of clinical experience, who is a full-time mental health &
sex therapy private practice owner, clinical somatic sexologist, certified hypnotherapist, plant medicine advocate, transformational life coach, and erotic coach. Queen is the creator, curator, and lead erotic coach for the transformational life coaching Program, Healing The Erotic Self. Build with Queen on all social media @SistaSexologist.

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Jacqui is the Founder/Clinical Director of Sankofa Healing Studio and Social-Justice Art & Play Therapist who centers the mental health of the Black community impacted by carceral systems, racism, community violence, and childhood trauma. Jacqui creatively fuses art, play, storytelling, Hip Hop therapy, parts of self, EMDR, Brainspotting, Reiki, Kemetic Yoga, Sound and Energy Healing to decolonize care and create holistic healing spaces. Jacqui is a Consultant, Trainer, Adjunct Professor, and lectures widely.

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Selina has a BS in Exercise and Movement. Selina centers somatic healing using EMDR, Brainspotting, Kemetic Yoga, Reiki, Sound and Energy Healing at Sankofa Healing Studio. Upon request, she also provides crystal consultations as part of a holistic wellness plan. Selina has a deeply rooted love for her community and the mental health and wellness of Black people. Her specialities include supporting people navigating racism, athletes at all levels, and adults healing from childhood trauma.

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Reverend Iyalosa Estee Nena Dillard is a SpiRitualist Scholar, Ancestral Storyteller and Queer Sexologist who creates spiritual roadmaps for African diasporan people to identify their needs and curates the spiritual practices needed to help obtain those needs. Estee's work as a womanist priest and pastor harnesses the power of embodiment, sexuality, ancestral spiritual care, grief and ritual for transformative healing. Estee is the founder/owner of ENDless Spiritual Consulting, LLC a business that curates sacred space through Christian and African traditional practices to connect individuals, families and businesses to the sinew of the generations within them and the endless capacity of their spirit.

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