Insights on culturally relevant therapy, healing, and Afrocentric mental health practices.
Culturally relevant therapy isn’t just about inclusion—it’s about restoration.
For African diasporic communities, therapy grounded in cultural understanding acknowledges that our pain, resilience, and identities are deeply tied to history, family, and community.
Healing is not meant to be done alone.
At Sankofa, wellness groups bring ancestral wisdom, storytelling, and spirituality into collective healing experiences rooted in African traditions.
It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten
Sankofa reminds us that healing begins by honouring our past—ancestral tools, traditions, and truths that modern therapy often overlooks.
Justice without context is injustice.
The Impact of Race and Cultural Assessment( IRCA™) is a formal report used in the Canadian judicial system — especially in criminal and family court contexts — to help judges, lawyers, and other justice professionals understand how systemic anti-Black racism, cultural identity, and lived experience have shaped an individual’s circumstances and interactions with the justice system.
For too long, the African diaspora has been boxed into harmful narratives.
Stereotypes are tools of oppression. At Sankofa, we dismantle these myths to reclaim dignity, emotional expression, and humanity.
For African diasporic people, isolation is a colonial inheritance.
Community care is central to African wellness traditions. Healing circles and group therapy reconnect us with collective resilience.