Amaka (she/they) is a Philadelphia-based ancestral healing practitioner of Igbo and Cornish-Germanic lineage. Raised in rural central Pennsylvania, she spent the majority of her youth in Mennonite and Quaker communities.

Amaka’s approach to healing work is rooted in her belief that in order to heal our bodies of today, we must re-member ourselves through the ancestral body. All diasporic bodies, especially those that have been socialized as white in the west, must engage in this re-membering in order to heal inherited soul rupture caused by immigration and colonial trauma. Amaka supports clients in exploring their ancestral bodies and the spiritual tasks that may emerge from this re-membering. This often looks like identifying generational inheritances, recovering indigenous rituals, developing somatic devotional practices, and making space for spirit as guide. 

Her training and years as a facilitator and member of non-clinical, peer-led healing spaces deeply inform Amaka’s orientation and commitment to serving C-PTSD and sexual abuse survivors. Amaka received an honors degree in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges and specialized in Africana Studies, Black feminisms, and Derridean deconstruction. Her work would not be possible if not for the life-force of black feminist philosophers Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Saidiya Hartman, and Toni Morrison.