Africa Centered Ancestral Healing

Orisade Awodola is a leading academic on ancestral healing, launching the field of root psychology in 2014 through her doctoral research. Her Ancestral Healing Identity Model is currently being prepared for review as an evidence-based therapy model. Awodola holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology from Antioch University.Awodola has taught ancestral healing workshops at London's King College and Ghana's W.E.B. Dubois Cultural Center, and she has directed numerous U.S.-based recovery centers. Her practice specializes in co-occurring disorders, particularly among descendants of ancestral trauma, including lineages that survived the Atlantic Slave Trade, the Trail of Tears, and the Holocaust.