Our Purpose

Bridge the Black Mental Health access gap
Provide Gender-Affirming Care
Use a healing-centered approach to interrupt the cycle of gun violence/community violence
Disrupt the criminalization of Black Girls in the education system
Address the negative impact of incarceration and the carceral system on overall mental health
Address the maternal mental health crisis among Black mothers
Advocate for the use of trauma-specific, identity-affirming, integrative, and holistic pathways of healing
Decrease barriers to education, training, supervision, and mentorship for Black therapists and other Black mental health professionals
Dismantle systemic racism; decolonize mental health and wellness spaces

Sankofa Healing Studio specializes in social justice-informed therapy, serving under-resourced youth and adults who are trauma-impacted and system-involved. Sankofa believes that holistic treatment approaches are needed to disrupt the development of re-traumatization and interrupt the cycle of intergenerational trauma. We offer culturally affirming, emotionally focused healing spaces that are rooted in a strength-based perspective.

Sankofa Healing Studio recognizes incarceration as a traumatic experience. The system of mass incarceration operates through structures of gendered and racial discrimination which disproportionately affect the Black Community. Sankofa is breaking the physical and emotional chains of trauma. We believe that person-centered treatment approaches heal the wounds of trauma that were experienced before incarceration.

We support transformative justice. Transformative justice addresses not only the specific conflict between the person who was harmed and the person who caused the harm but also the plethora of social issues that are both causal and interconnected with that conflict. Mass incarceration, a form of structural racism, exposes Black Women and Femmes to distinct stressors that ultimately undermine their health, the health of their children, and rips at the fabric of the Black Family unit.

Community violence and the disproportionate rates of victimization in Black communities is a product of structural racism. Racial trauma is pervasive and insidious. Studies have shown that racial trauma in the Black community is directly connected to shorter lifespans, higher rates of poverty, limited access to quality education, health disparities, increased maternal mortality, mental health challenges, and an overall decreased sense of hope. This traumatic stress is often magnified by the lack of space to name, express, and heal from it. Sankofa Healing Studio recognizes the healing power of community. Our Healing Circles are grounded in principles of wellness for the Black Community and are designed to address the immediate emotional and somatic needs caused by historical trauma, race-related stress, racial fatigue, alienation, and isolation. Healing Circles are traditional spaces that speak to the relationship of the whole person to the community and to the world. Representation matters...it is a critical component of holistic healing that centers cultural roots.

Social-Justice Informed Therapy for Liberated Mental Health

Our Purpose

Sankofa Healing Studio - 501(c)3 organization

Social-Justice Informed Therapy for Liberated Mental Health

Our Purpose

Sankofa Healing Studio - 501(c)3 organization

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