About Us

Sisters Healing Space is an online platform, therapist and wellness directory that promotes and encourages healing, mental health and well-being for women from minority and marginalised groups (Indigenous, Black and Women of Colour) in Australia.

We empower women from minority and marginalised groups on their healing and wellness journey. We promote mental health and wellbeing as well as destigmatise mental health.

Our Services

We provide an online directory that aims to connect women of all ages from minority and marginalised groups with local or virtual culturally safe, inclusive and responsive mental health and wellness practitioners and organisations in Australia.

We facilitate and develop culturally safe, strength-based and trauma-informed therapeutic creative workshops and courses.

We provide inter-generational and racial trauma therapy and consultancy, shifting from western therapeutic models by decolonising therapy practices and promoting culturally safe holistic healing and wellness practices; that encourage connection to community, culture, mind and spirit.

Why Sisters Healing Space?

Women from minority and marginalised communities experience multitude of challenges resulting from intersectional marginalization, oppression , discrimination, and racism. Intersecting social categories such as race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability can intensify these challenges, negatively affecting their mental health and overall well-being. 

Sisters Healing Space affirms and validates the intersectional experiences of First Nations, Black, and Women of Color and acknowledges the wounds of inter-generational trauma. We provide culturally safe therapeutic, inclusive spaces that foster generational healing; by awakening Sisters to reconnect with their cultural heritage to reclaim and harness their generational strengths and ancestral resilience.

We believe in building intercultural sisterhood rooted in love and hope, providing a sense of belonging to all Sisters. Through intercultural sisterhood, we can work together to dismantle the harmful effects of systemic oppression, racisim and promote radical healing for Sisters, their families, and communities across generations.

 

Vision & Mission

At the heart of our work is a mission to decolonise therapy and wellness practices and create safe spaces for First Nations, Black and Women of Colour to reconnect and embrace their cultural roots; reclaiming their ancestral strengths to overcome past traumas planting healing trees in their lives and cultivate generational healing.

Our vision is to provide transformative healing experiences that support the individual journeys of each of our Sisters towards greater well-being and empowerment.

“Out of Sisters Healing Space Shall Grow Trees, Trees Healing Nations and Generations.”

Our Values

At Sisters Healing Space, we prioritise and uphold the following values:

Respect: We deeply respect women of all ages from minority and marginalised communities and their connection to culture and community.

Promotion: We are dedicated to promoting culturally safe and affirming healing, mental health, and overall well-being for First Nations, Black and Women of Colour of all ages.

Cultural Safety: We value and support healing, mental health, and well-being practices that prioritise cultural safety and are sensitive to their intersectional experiences and how this negatively impacts their mental health and well-being.

Inclusive: We believe in the importance of creating inclusive healing, mental health, and well-being practices that honour and respect First Nations, Black and Women of Colour diverse cultural backgrounds.

Cultural Responsiveness: We are committed to supporting healing, mental health, and well-being practices that are responsive First Nations, Black and Women of Colour intersectional experiences.

Intercultural Sisterhood: We believe in building intercultural sisterhood rooted in love and hope, challenging cultural divides and providing a sense of belonging to all Sisters.

 

Practice Framework:

Culturaly Safe, Responsive and Affirming.

Trauma Informed: We curtate safe therapeutic trauma-informed for Sisters to heal from experinces of truama, racial trauma and intergenrational truma. 

Intersectionality: We embed a holistic model of care that aims to challenge overlapping forms of discrimination and marginalisation in society. By creating a safe and affirming space for healing and promote wellness through therapy, workshops and courses.

Generational Healing: We believe in healing inter-genrational trauma to promote Generational Healing and Wellness.

Strength Based: We implement a strength-based approaches to empower women and Sisters on their healing and wellness journey.

 

 

Nicholah Founder Sisters Healing Space

Nicholah is a highly experienced Social Worker, Therapist, Mental Health Clinician and current PhD student. Her research focuses on decolonising mental health practices and exploring the impact of racial trauma. With over five years of experience in the human services and mental health sector, Nicholah specialises in trauma therapy, including childhood trauma, inter-generational trauma, and therapy for those who have experienced sexual abuse and racial trauma.

My healing journey and life experiences sparked Sisters Healing Space. I was looking for a therapist whom I could relate to as a Black African woman in Australia. I found myself explaining and my culture and racial experiences. I wanted to talk to a Sister who understood me. So, I created a space for Sisters on their healing and wellness journey looking for someone who understands them, their culture and and experiences.

As a therapists it’s important we decolonise therapeutic approaches and shift from western model framework. This includes acknowledging and addressing the impact of racial experiences on  the mental health and wellness of  women from marginalised and minority groups.

Therapy that does not condemn and challenge oppression, racism, systemic racism, colonisation and societal injustice is not a healing space.” – Nicholah W

Sister Healing Space approches Mental Health and Wellness through an intersectional and cultural lens. Our goal is to create safe, responsive, and inclusive spaces that affirm and support Sisters on their healing and wellness journey.

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