Danielle Osajivbe-Williams

Danielle DZA Ifakemi Osajivbe-Williams is an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist, consultant, author (‘Race is complicated: a toolkit for psychological therapies training’), trainee priestess of Isese (African Traditional Religion) and performing artist who plants seeds for liberation via wellness technologies of past/present/future. Dwelling in the realms of embodiment, movement and spiritual arts, she is concerned with the sensual, the spiritual and the ancestral, as the lens from which to make sense of experience, and is the founder of This Is Dream Roots and co-founder of Routes Therapeutic Consultancy. 

Danielle is intent on bridging the gap between western psychology and traditional West African and ancestral healing practices as a decolonial, regenerative and practical resolve of the timeline we currently find ourselves in. For Danielle, our wellness and liberation is linked to the ability to trust our being and move from a place of awareness (of self and other), resource (resilience) and activation of personal power (àṣẹ). With values concerning healing justice, she supports environmental work and those with marginalised experiences through academia, performing arts, spirituality, consultancy, and therapy.