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Founder/Clinical Director of Sankofa Healing Studio, Jacqui Johnson, a Somatic Social-Justice Art, EMDR + Play Therapist, prioritizes the need to bridge the Black mental health access gap while upending oppression within healing spaces. Her advanced training in multiple evidence-based modalities informs her unique holistic style blending Art, Play, Storytelling, Hip-Hop, Brainspotting, EMDR, and Energy-based practices. Jacqui is an educator who lectures widely, provides supervision, consultation, and leads international initiatives that increase training accessibility to Therapists of Color.

As an EMDRIA-approved consultant in Pennsylvania, Jacqui brings a distinctly social-justice informed lens to EMDR consultation. She holds advanced training in Early Intervention and Ongoing Traumatic Stress protocols and is currently a Consultant in Training through EMDRIA. Clinicians seeking an EMDRIA-approved consultant Pennsylvania therapists can trust will find in Jacqui a consultant who centers racial equity, cultural responsiveness, and trauma-informed care throughout the consultation process.

Jacqui is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania, a National Certified Counselor, and holds additional certifications in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C) and Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CCMHC). She is also a certified Brainspotting Consultant and holds advanced training in Art Therapy and Play Therapy through Thomas Jefferson University.

Her clinical expertise is grounded in the intersection of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), racial and social injustice, and the criminal justice system — particularly the pathways of girls and women into incarceration. Jacqui provides individual and group psychotherapy through Sankofa Healing Studio in Philadelphia and has facilitated trauma-informed training for the Philadelphia Assistant District Attorney’s Office, Temple University Law School, and Drexel University Law School, among others.

A sought-after speaker and educator, Jacqui has presented at national conferences including the Expressive Therapies Summit, the Beyond the Walls Prison Healthcare and Reentry Summit, and the AJFO Conference. She has also been a recurring guest on WURD Radio discussing mental health within the Black community.

Jacqui earned her M.S. in Clinical and Counseling Psychology from Chestnut Hill College with a 4.0 GPA and dual concentrations in Trauma Studies and Diverse & Underserved Communities.

Organizations

SANKOFA Healing Studio– Social-justice informed therapy in Philadelphia, PA