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The Motherland Model™

Our Core Pillars

Liberatory Praxis
Inspired by: Liberation Psychology + Abolitionist Social Work
Adinkra Symbol: Fawohodie 

We ground healing in an analysis of systemic oppression, offering care that liberates rather than pathologizes. This includes:

  • Centering power, privilege, and history in the therapeutic process.

  • Co-creating care plans rooted in autonomy and dignity.

  • Naming and challenging structural violence within and beyond the clinical space.

Radical Reproductive Sovereignty
Inspired by: Reproductive Justice Framework
Adinkra Symbol: Aya 

We understand reproductive mental health as political, personal, and cultural. Our approach honors the full spectrum of reproductive experiences, including abortion, loss, infertility, parenting, and pleasure.

  • Every body has the right to informed choice, rest, and care.

  • We affirm all paths to and away from parenthood.

  • We provide care that resists medical racism and affirms bodily autonomy.

Collective Healing + Interdependence
Inspired by: Healing Justice + Black Feminist Theory
Adinkra Symbol: Boa Me Na Me Mmoa Wo 

Healing is not a solo act—it is relational, political, and generational. We facilitate connection, reflection, and community care:

  • Use of sound, breath, ancestral practices, and somatics as legitimate clinical tools.

  • Supervision and therapy spaces that support mutual care and vulnerability.

  • Care models that hold rage, grief, joy, and rest with equal reverence.

Embodying Sankofa + Ubuntu
Inspired by: Black Queer Feminist Theory + Ancestral Wisdom Traditions
Adinkra Symbol: Sankofa 

We look to the past to inform the present and future. The principle of Sankofa teaches us to reach back and retrieve what has been forgotten, stolen, or suppressed. At the same time, Ubuntu—"I am because we are"—reminds us that our humanity is bound in the humanity of others. We heal not in isolation but in relationship and responsibility to one another.

  • Clinical practices rooted in Indigenous, African, and diasporic traditions.

  • Valuing storytelling, spiritual practice, and cultural wisdom as evidence.

  • Honoring Black queer futures as sacred, possible, and urgent.

  • Embracing collective identity, shared accountability, and radical interdependence.

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