Meet the Founder

Yaa Yeboah-Newton (Yaa Sankofa - she/her) is a British born - Ghanaian woman navigating the diaspora.

 

Working as a:

• Founder of Our Naked Truths and the Black Women's Therapy Fund

• MBACP Integrative Counsellor/Therapist

• Space Holder / Facilitator

• Creative Healing Practitioner

• Trainee Integrative Psychotherapist

 

Her practice is a creative, embodied, intersectional, facilitative approach. Empowering people to have an honest, reflective, healing and celebratory exploration of self-acceptance, identity, forgiveness, freedom, and love.

 

Using sound, art, meditation, discussion, writing and body wisdom as tools.  She has facilitated groups and 1-2-1 sessions with Family Tree and ...cake theatre cast and production teams, Black Girl Fest,  gal-dem, Soho House, Ogilvy Roots, Exist Loudly, The South Bank and Festival Republik - Kenya to name a few. She is the lead facilitator for all Our Naked Truths sessions.   

 

She founded Our Naked Truths to create a safe space for empowerment, healing and reclamation. Centering the stories and bodies of women and non-binary people in the name of self-acceptance. 

 

A mission that is very dear to her heart and a realised purpose.