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Yema Ferreira is Angolan and is a healer, psychotherapist, and life coach. Her mission is to spiritually liberate Black and African people all over the world and to be part of the movement to heal the collective trauma of Black people and people of African descent resulting from slavery, colonization, and neo-colonialism. Part of this process is to retrieve and restore Black and African Histories to their people—individual and personal histories, family and community histories, national histories and, importantly, pre-colonial histories.

Yema studied Psychology at the undergraduate level at Temple University in Philadelphia (USA) and later began training in Existential Psychotherapy at Denmark’s Psykoterapeutisk Institut. She has since obtained a Certificate in Psychotherapy and Counselling from Regents University London, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling from the same university. She has subsequently done training in coaching, and study to explore spirituality, build her psychotherapeutic approach and further develop her natural gifts. As a result, she uses a blend of all these skills in her work with women.

Yema’s professional roots are in the women’s movement. She has worked as a counsellor for women survivors of sexual abuse, provided domestic violence counselling on individual and group bases, supported migrant women recovering from trafficking, and helped diverse clients through trauma, depression, anxiety, self-esteem issues, and coping with chronic illness among other difficulties.