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Ojore Lateef Bushfan (he/him/his) is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Certified Practitioner of Sound Healing, and a long-time resident of Southeast San Diego’s Skyline Hills Community. He earned a BA in Africana Studies, a MA in Multicultural Counseling (the Community-Based Block Program), and a MS in Counseling with an emphasis in Marriage & Family Therapy, from San Diego State University (SDSU).
Ojore has worked in high school, community college, and university settings where he was afforded opportunities to work with individuals of all ages, relationship dynamics, and males of color. He is passionate about providing mental health services that address behavioral and social-emotional challenges and the intersectionality of race, gender, sexuality, and cultural identities, in a way that is culturally responsive. His therapeutic approaches include: Afrikan-Centered Psychology, Person-Centered Therapy, Attachment-Focused Therapy, Body-Centered/Somatic Psychotherapy, Sound Healing, and Trauma interventions.
He was a research assistant with the San Diego Caregiver-Child Connection Project Hair Combing Interactions Study which focused on attachment and hair care interactions between caregiver and child using Hair Combing Interactions (HCI), originated by Dr. Marva Lewis, Ph. D. His a co-authored of a chapter in the book Therapeutic Cultural Routines to Build Family Relationships: Talk, Touch, and Listen While Combing Hair©. Ojore has also taught in various departments at SDSU (the Africana Studies Department, the Community-Based Block Program, and the Marriage & Family Therapy Program).
Outside of work, Ojore is part of a sound healing collective, enjoys being in nature, cooking, bowling painting, black and white film photography, reading, spending time with family, and traveling when possible.