Tikvah Womack

Tikvah (Nadia) Womack is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and an Expressive Arts Therapist, specializing in trauma and cultural sensitivity. Utilizing arts and with a 20-year span of experience in the mental health field her clinical experience expands over mental health clinical and community settings ranging in modalities and population. She develops, facilitates, and consults groups across the developmental spectrum, professional trainings, and community and affinity conversations. Receiving her masters at Lesley University in Expressive Arts Therapy with a specialization in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Tikvah traveled to South Africa and Guatemala exploring the intersections of music and visual art, cultural identity, and trauma. Tikvah’s thesis entitled A Generational Perspective on the Effects of Community Violence on Mothers of the Africana Diaspora and the Curative Benefits of Soulful Expressive Arts paved a particular focus on community healing with Black women.

I am privileged to create a non-judgmental safe space for clients to experience the healing process. It is a relationship like non-other, I see myself as creating a container in a divine experience.

It is important to get a sense of where my clients are coming from so I can meet them where they are as best as possible. While I know how hard it can be to meet someone for the first time and unpack some of the most sensitive moments of their lives, this will help us create a path together; as I am more of a guide in the passenger seat, where my client is the driver.