Does This Sound Familiar?
You excel professionally while feeling depleted emotionally
You're carrying generational patterns you promised never to repeat
You're tired of "pushing through," code-switching, and masking your pain
Previous therapy helped somewhat but missed your cultural experience
You sense there's more to healing than just managing symptoms
You're not alone. And you don't have to carry this burden by yourself anymore.
As your Healing Architect at Akoma from the Heart, I help you rebuild your emotional foundation with therapy that blends clinical expertise, cultural wisdom, and ancestral insight. Together, we'll move beyond survival to create a life of meaning, peace, and authentic power.
Healing Pathways for Your Unique Journey
Individual Therapy
Deep, Personalized Healing
Trauma-informed therapy addressing anxiety, burnout, relationship challenges, and life transitions. Create a roadmap for healing that honors your whole self – mind, body, spirit, and cultural identity.
Couples Therapy
Heal Your Most Important Connections
Break free from painful patterns. Using cultural context and trauma-informed techniques, we'll rebuild the foundations of your relationships with deeper understanding and renewed connection.
Menopause Coaching
Navigate Transition with Cultural Wisdom
Specialized support for the emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects of menopause. Combine evidence-based guidance with ancestral wisdom to embrace this powerful life transition with confidence and grace.
Intensive Healing Programs
Deep Healing on Your Timeline
For those seeking significant change in a concentrated format. Experience profound shifts through immersive healing programs:
- Trauma Breakthrough Intensives
- Walking Therapy Experiences
- Couples Reconnection Intensives
- Men's Healing Intensives
- Midlife & Menopause Support
What Makes Akoma from the Heart Different?
Culturally Rooted, Trauma-Informed Healing
Your therapy integrates clinical approaches with culturally affirming care that speaks directly to your lived experience as a BIPOC individual. We honor your story, identity, ancestry, and legacy.
Specialized Support Across Life Transitions
From young adulthood to midlife and menopause, I create space for the emotional shifts, role changes, and identity redefinitions that often go unsupported, helping you navigate these passages with clarity and renewed purpose.
Legacy-Focused Therapy with Soul & Strategy
We go beyond talk therapy by helping you define new values, reshape beliefs, and intentionally create a legacy of emotional wellness that extends to future generations.
Meet Your Healing Architect
Alicia Jefferson, LCSW-C, CMS is a trauma expert, clinical therapist, and advocate for healing in the BIPOC community. With experience as a former Detective in the Sex Crimes Unit and over a decade at DC Child and Family Services, Alicia brings deep expertise in addressing generational trauma and family dynamics. As the founder of Akoma from the Heart, she combines her clinical skills with cultural wisdom to help clients break cycles of trauma, establish healthy values, and create healing legacies that extend beyond themselves. Her approach honors both professional training and lived experience as a Black woman navigating personal and collective healing.
Professional Foundation
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C)
- Certified Scrum Master
- Specialized training in CBT, DBT, Brainspotting
- Expertise in Narrative Therapy with Cultural Context
- Training in Somatic and Body-Based Healing
- Facilitator of Community Healing Circles
Finding Freedom in Healing
"Ms. Alicia you told me for a long time 'Trauma is a Thief it Robs you of Choices' and I truly did not understand for a long time what you meant. Now I realize I have choices. I choose myself and who I want in my life. My childhood trauma does not define who I want to be."
Begin Your Healing Journey Today
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