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NOT THERAPY. Leverage Brain Science for Resilience & to Heal Trauma

 
Trauma & Resilience Life Coaching to balance your brain and balance your life!
"Are you in therapy?" Is a question loaded with judgment and expectation. There are thousands of people who;
  • Have been failed by therapy & rehab
  • Have been unable to find a whole and healthy therapist
  • Haven't found a therapist who aligns with their personality
  • Have cultural beliefs that don't support the Western therapeutic process
  • Don't have access to mental health care
  • Want to take action to heal themselves
  • Simply don't want to talk about past traumas
Therapy is great for people who feel drawn to that process, but it's not for everybody and that's OKAY! It doesn't make a person non-compliant, unwilling to get treatment, or someone who doesn't want to make changes in their life. Mental Health is the only area of medicine where regardless of the dis-ease, the answer is the same; talk therapy and/or medication. Every human is beautifully unique and has different requirements. Seeing people and meeting them where they are is how we value each other.
OUR PROCESS
  1. Motivational Interview- an opportunity for the client to discuss traumatic experiences without dysregulating the brain and learn about their strengths
  2. Seven Circles of Wellness Assessment
  3. Adult Attachment Interview- to assess how the client identifies, prevents, and protects themselves from perceived dangers, especially those related to close relationships.
  4. Create an Action Plan
We utilize a variety of tools throughout our time together to meet each client's individual needs, support brain regulation, and the establishment of new neural pathways. Eco-therapy, clay therapy, expressive arts, contemplative practices, Yoga Nidra, and other ancient tools are integrated to create a unique opportunity for healing.
Schedule an appointment:
Text 480-207-9778
healhistoricaltrauma@gmail.com

Iya Affo is the founder of Heal Trauma Global & Heal Historical Trauma. As a descendant of spiritual and physical healers, Iya’s life has centered around spirituality, indigenous healing and wellness.

Iya's ancestors hail from the Sacred City of 41 Mountains in West Africa, Barbados, Jamaica and the Bahamas. From the age of 5 years old, she showed compassion and love for people in need, which was fostered by time spent in nursing homes massaging residual limbs for elders affected by limb loss, with her mother. Iya began to develop an interest in neuroscience around that same time which was developed through experiments in the rat lab of Columbia University during her mother’s research as a doctoral student. The first part of Iya's life was focused on physical healing and she pursued education in Nutrition, Massage Therapy and eventually Chiropractic, all the while participating in a variety of indigenous healing practices. Iya has worked with clients in search of healing for 35 years.

Today, she is a Culturalist and Historical Trauma Specialist who earned Western Certification as a Trauma Specialist. Iya is Certified to facilitate Dr. Bruce Perry's Neurosequential Model for Caregiving, and Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). She is a Certified Trauma & Resilience Life Coach, a Certified Adverse Childhood Experiences Trainer and has completed Certification for the Native American based Fatherhood is Sacred/Motherhood is Sacred program.

With an eye on indigenous healing practices, Iya has visited more than 30 countries around the world and has spent extended time living and studying in Native American, Yoruba, Buddhist, Hindu and Taoist communities in various countries. While on pilgrimage in West Africa, she studied with Medicine Men and Women to learn the ways of the Shaman and understand the truth about the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. In China, she lived in the Shaolin Temple, the cradle of Zen Buddhism, and immersed herself in Chinese culture. While in China, she also lived among the Taoist in Kunyu Shan. After a spiritual calling to India, Iya sojourned in an ashram (Hindu spiritual community) and lived a minimal lifestyle while imbuing Hindu customs and ideology. Serving Navajo Nation, Salt River Indian Community, Gila River Indian Community, Ho Chunk Indian Community, and Chemehuevi Indian Community, Iya found a home among the egalitarian, indigenous people of North America.

In 2018, elders invited her to Toronto, Canada to participate in forming the first Canadian/American collaboration to heal ACEs and Historical Trauma. She debuted her presentation, "The Symphony of Traditional Medicine and Western Medicine to Heal ACEs and Historical Trauma" at the 2018 National ACEs Conference in San Francisco, California. Iya is an international speaker on historical trauma, healing and wellness. Most recently, she traveled to Kenya where she delivered a keynote address and led workshops on neuro healing.

Iya strives to cultivate love and inclusivity. She hopes to facilitate reculturing and the subsequent healing of indigenous people all over the world. Iya advocates for the harmonization of Traditional Medicine and Western Medicine to facilitate holistic healing.  She recently stepped down from being an executive board member on the Arizona Adverse Childhood Experiences Consortium, but continues to serve as the Chair of the Historical Trauma committee and develop curriculum for the Resilience Empowerment Program. She is an Adjunct Faculty member at the Arizona Trauma Institute\Trauma Institute International, is the founder of Phoenix Rising to Resilience virtual community on the PACEs Connection platform and was recently appointed to the Gilbert Community Engagement Task Force to advocate for people who have been disempowered.

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