Complex Trauma Analysis & Recovery Support
This 1:1 program is for people who feel that their trauma cannot be understood purely as an individual psychological issue, but may also be deeply connected to relationships, culture, chronic adaptation, social environments, and the ways we have learned to survive within them.
After years of psychotherapy and trauma therapy without substantial relief, I began to feel that part of what kept me stuck was not only personal trauma itself, but also wider cultural assumptions embedded within western approaches to healing and individual therapy. Through anthropology and cross-cultural research, I became increasingly interested in how different societies understand distress, relational wounds, healing, support, and human interdependence. This perspective became an important part of my own recovery journey.
My work does not reject therapy, nor does it claim to replace it. Rather, it offers an additional anthropological, relational, and culturally reflective lens for people who feel that existing frameworks have not fully helped them make sense of their experience. Complex trauma is deeply complex. There is no single therapeutic approach that guarantees healing, and different people respond to different forms of support. Many people living with complex trauma describe feeling chronically hypervigilant, emotionally overwhelmed, disconnected from themselves, trapped in repeating relational patterns, or exhausted from constantly adapting to environments and relationships that never truly feel safe. Others find themselves repeatedly entering emotional states they do not want to be in, despite years of self-work, insight, or therapy.
Together, we explore whether some of these patterns may be connected not only to personal history, but also to wider cultural assumptions, relational expectations, family dynamics, social pressures, or survival strategies that the nervous system has learned over time. Drawing from anthropology, trauma-informed somatic coaching, reflective dialogue, and energetic regulation practices, I support clients in understanding the deeper relational and cultural dimensions of their distress while developing greater emotional clarity, coherence, embodied safety, and relational awareness.
A central aspect of my work is the understanding that humans are profoundly relational beings. Many modern western approaches to healing focus heavily on the individual, personal boundaries, and internal psychological processes. Yet across cultures, healing has historically often taken place through collective structures, relational systems, symbolic frameworks, ritual, storytelling, and community-based forms of meaning-making. Anthropological knowledge can help situate personal suffering within wider social and cultural structures. This can reduce shame, create clarity, and open new possibilities for understanding both oneself and one’s relationships.
Part of our work together involves identifying which interactions, relational dynamics, or social environments repeatedly trigger emotional distress, chronic vigilance, collapse, confusion, or states of internal emergency within the nervous system. We then explore what alternative perspectives, relational patterns, or cultural frameworks may support greater coherence and regulation.
Through narrative interviews — a core anthropological method — embodied awareness practices, reflective dialogue, and energy-based regulation techniques such as tapping, I support clients in:
understanding relational triggers more clearly,
reconnecting with intuition and bodily awareness,
exploring culturally inherited beliefs and expectations,
and developing ways of relating that feel more coherent and emotionally sustainable.
The goal is not perfection, but greater awareness, coherence, agency, and the possibility of relating to oneself and others in ways that no longer continuously reproduce distress.
The 4 Stages of the Sankofa Coaching Method℠
1. Narrative & Relational Mapping
We begin with a narrative interview inspired by cultural anthropology. You share your background, life experiences, relational history, and the situations you feel may be connected to your trauma patterns and emotional distress. Together, we explore recurring themes, relational triggers, and sociocultural conditioning across different areas of your life.
The goal is to better understand which situations, dynamics, or expectations repeatedly trigger emotional overwhelm, hypervigilance, collapse, confusion, or relational distress.
2. Anthropological & Cultural Insight
I introduce relevant anthropological perspectives and cross-cultural knowledge that may help illuminate your situation from new angles. This may include non-western understandings of healing, relationships, social structure, symbolism, spirituality, and community.
I also work with mythological and symbolic systems — such as Anansi, the trickster figure from Ghanaian and Jamaican traditions, or Eshu from Yoruba cosmology — as ways of opening new perspectives on relational dynamics, survival, contradiction, agency, and transformation.
3. Relational & Cultural Reorganization
Together, we explore which insights resonate with you and how they may be practically integrated into your life. We examine which cultural beliefs, relational patterns, or inherited assumptions may be contributing to emotional distress, chronic adaptation, or relational confusion.
The goal is to gradually restructure relationships, perceptions, and ways of relating in directions that feel more coherent, sustainable, and less destabilizing for the nervous system.
4. Integration & Energetic Regulation
I support you in integrating these insights into your everyday life and relationships through the Sankofa Coaching Method℠ using trauma-informed coaching, nervous-system-conscious practices, reflective dialogue, and energetic regulation techniques.
The process is intended to support greater emotional regulation, embodied safety, relational clarity, and a stronger sense of agency while remaining considerate of the nervous system throughout.
Stucture and cost: 1 month (1x a week/4 weeks) package 500 usd; additional reflection sessions can be booked (125 usd per session)
Important note: My work is intended as anthropological, reflective, and energetic support alongside existing care. It is not a replacement for psychotherapy, psychiatric care, or crisis support, but offers a supportive space for exploring the relational, cultural, emotional, and nervous-system dimensions of complex trauma. If you are currently experiencing an acute psychological crisis or are in immediate danger, please seek support from a licensed mental health professional or emergency services. See full disclaimer