About us
Nubia Wellness and Healing CIC was founded in 2024 by Dr Erica Mapule McInnis, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist of Jamaican parentage, after many years of practising from an African psychology framework. This included attending Association of Black Psychologists conferences in the USA and a Churchill Fellowship in 2016, where she deepened her knowledge.
On returning to the UK, she began practising explicitly using African psychology and launched her first Emotional Emancipation Circle for community healing. Nubia Healing CIC is our latest development, continuing this work.
We specialise in supporting communities of African ancestry and those who work with them, using the best of African psychology. Our position is African psychology for all, as we all can benefit. You are in safe hands as both organisations are led by a trained Consultant Clinical Psychologist with a strong track record of delivery and awards for innovation.
We are guided by traditional African ethical principles such as Ma’at, Ubuntu, and the 10 Virtues of the Ancient Egyptian Mystery System. Our approach to culture draws on the work of Dr Edwin Nichols and Dr Shelly Harrell, who describes culture as patterns of being, believing, bonding, belonging, behaving, and becoming. We recognise that people belong to multiple co existing communities at once. This means our approach is culturally syntonic, moving in sync with where a person is.
We draw on traditional African thought, culture, and principles to support the optimisation of individuals and communities. We also work from a di unital perspective, meaning both and rather than either or. We not only decolonise psychology, but go further to re indigenise it. We see healing as movement toward the five characteristics of healthy African functioning.
We value contributing to the evidence base through teaching and publications, using contemporary formats to deliver our work, and ensuring accessibility through structured and recorded learning.
We are a UK leading provider of African psychology based wellness and healing with an international reach through our online school.
Not all healing is therapy, and not all therapy is healing.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr Erica McInnis
Founder and Managing Director
Dr Erica McInnis is Director and Principal Clinical Psychologist with Nubia Wellness and Healing. Dr McInnis has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and has over 20 years experience as a qualified Chartered Clinical Psychologist in the United Kingdom for the National Health Service (NHS) read more…
Sharon Miller (Sakura)
NWAH CIC Board Member
Sharon Miller, also known as Sakura, brings over 20 years of experience in education and youth development. Having spent much of her career teaching Key Stage 2 pupils in mainstream primary education, she developed a strong passion for nurturing young people and helping them realise their potential read more…
Prof. Robert Beckford
NWAH CIC Board Member
Prof. Robert Beckford is scholar-activist researching the intersections of faith and racial justice in and through diverse media texts. He has written a dozen books which triangulate the fields of theology, cultural studies and politics read more…
Dr Amy Morgan
NWAH CIC Board Member
Dr Amy Morgan is a Research Clinical Psychologist at at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London (KCL). She obtained a BSc in Psychology from the University of Leeds and a MSc in Mental Health Studies at KCL, before completing their Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsy) at the IoPPN read more…
ADVISORY BOARD
Kayya Hudson
NWAH CIC Board Member
Kayya Hudson is a certified Yoga Instructor and Personal Trainer based in Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Holding certifications from the Yoga Alliance and the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), she specializes in teaching yoga, mindfulness, and meditation to children and adults read more…
Tanya Wallis
Advisory Board Member
Therapeutic Practitioner
Dr. Egena Ode CMBE, SFHEA, GNIM
NWAH CIC Board Member
Dr Egena Ode is a Lecturer in Enterprise Practice at the Centre for Enterprise, Manchester Metropolitan University and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. He holds a PhD in Business and Management from the University of Manchester and a Master’s degree in Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship from Newcastle University read more..
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Address
Piccadilly Business Centre
Aldow Enterprise Park
Manchester
M12 6AE
England, United Kingdom
Company No: 17058874