THE TRIBE
Committed to the Cause
Since our founding in 2000, Nile's Edge has developed and grown in a positive direction. We’re very proud of the diversity of our staff, and their abilities to contribute their own unique experience and skills to our success. Find out more about some of our team members below.
Liz Davis
Reiki Master
Liz Davis is a Reiki Master who joined the Healthy Living Movement in 1998 when she went from 400 to 220 pounds over two years. Most recently, healing childhood trauma saved her life and met a transformation milestone reaching 200 pounds in 2012. She now uses writing, drama and workshops with other health industry professionals to share her story and offer the life-changing benefits of holistic self care to all who aspire a healthy lifestyle.
Her outreach is focused on the African American community who suffer in greater numbers from preventable conditions than the average American. Liz can be found promoting the message of healthy living via monthly community walks, performing arts and as an energy healing practitioner in the discipline of Reiki.
Contact her today for workshop consultation, registration and appointments at 206-890-7962 or HolisticU@icloud.com and on social media: www.facebook.com/ReikiFlowbyLiz
Michelle Phillips
Liberation Strategist
A near-native with over 20 years of leadership in the Pacific Northwest's healthcare and wellness industry, Michelle has held a post on almost every healthcare level. Acknowledging that we can't heal alone - that we heal best in our community - they strive to put the "we" back in wellness.
Michelle has launched an oncology clinic for UW Medicine, and they've spent a few years of training as a hospital chaplain. While serving as chaplain, Michelle discovered the connection between reflective practice and mindfulness—spiritual and emotional connection and physical and mental health. A transformational servant leader on the Seattle University campus and in the community, Michelle is a 2020 National Board of Certified Counselors Minority Fellow for Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Their passion and clinical interest live in supporting mental and spiritual wellness. Michelle has adopted grief as the primary strategy for liberation while building thriving mental health and spiritual wellness practices. Michelle is an agent of liberatory change, supporting individuals, leaders, and organizations with anti-oppression and liberation strategies.
iIf you have any questions, comments, or if you have chosen liberation, please contact at info@liberationstrategies.com
You can also follow them on Instagram @liberatewithmichelle
SADIQUA IMAN
Energy and Bodyworker/Co-founder
I see massage therapy as an essential part of holistic health. In my practice I focus on raising awareness of the body, mind, and spirit connection through a combination of intuitive body and energy modalities. Massage to me is an artform just like painting and poetry. I am inspired by each and every one of my clients to collaborate on creating their best self. When I am not massaging you may catch me teaching, performing, or facilitating workshops.
Special Interest: womyn, gender non-conforming, lgbtq, sex positivity, dancers/athletes, anxiety and depression.
Modalities Practiced: Cranial Sacral Therapy, Deep Tissue, Myofascial Release, Pregnancy, Swedish, Hot Stone, and Chakra Balancing.
Learn more about Sadiqua Iman here: www.whatyoukneadmassage.com
DALISHA PHILLIPS, LMCHA
Art Therapy
My practice is rooted in the notion that through art-making, creativity, and a dynamic therapeutic relationship you can begin to explore your understanding of your ideal self and its juxtaposition to your worldview. Through the alignment of how you believe others see you, how you wish to be seen by others, and how you see yourself you are capable of evolving and actualizing that optimum entity. It is my role to accompany you as you embark on the odyssey that is self-discovery and transformation through art and language.
Contact Dalisha here: lovelightenergyarttherapy@gmail.com
KATRINA M. SANFORD, PSYD
Co-Founder/Doctor of Clinical Psychology
Dr. Katrina Sanford is down for smashing the patriarchy, sexism, and racism through self and community healing. She is a Clinical Psychotherapist with specialties in Trauma and Sex Therapy. Dr. Sanford uses her trauma informed background to challenge social injustice issues for her clients and community, particularly racially induced inequities. Dr. Sanford spends much of her time helping her clients decolonize their minds, bodies, and souls from Eurocentric ways of being that continue to negatively impact our whole selves. Becoming our better selves involves breaking down the historical inaccuracies the dominant culture has created about our people and being open to working through the intergenerational traumas/barriers that have left our people with a lack of understanding of how truly amazing we are. I'm here to help you develop the self-love that is necessary for true growth and evolution in this life.
Learn more about Dr. Sanford here: www.drkatrinasanford.com
Orisade Awodola, Ph.D
Root Psychology
Orisade Awodola, M.A., Ph.D. is a Root Psychologist, Author, Lecturer, Researcher. Her former background as journalist and Investigative News Reporter led to a career in Mental Health. She has an extensive clinical and academic background in psychology and mental health approaches. She is a MIDD professional (mental illness and drug dependency) formerly known as (co-occurring disorders) and the founder of the Institute of African Centered Thought (IACT), where she created and teaches Root Psychology, Ancestral Healing and African Spirituality based on the Ancestral Healing Identity Theory.
SIGN up for classes at https://iactnow0119.com/
Liz Davis
Reiki Master
Liz Davis is a Reiki Master who joined the Healthy Living Movement in 1998 when she went from 400 to 220 pounds over two years. Most recently, healing childhood trauma saved her life and met a transformation milestone reaching 200 pounds in 2012. She now uses writing, drama and workshops with other health industry professionals to share her story and offer the life-changing benefits of holistic self care to all who aspire a healthy lifestyle.
Her outreach is focused on the African American community who suffer in greater numbers from preventable conditions than the average American. Liz can be found promoting the message of healthy living via monthly community walks, performing arts and as an energy healing practitioner in the discipline of Reiki.
Contact her today for workshop consultation, registration and appointments at 206-890-7962 or HolisticU@icloud.com and on social media: www.facebook.com/ReikiFlowbyLiz
Aishe' Keita
Healing Artist/ Breathworker/Co-Founder
Ancestral lineage from the Mandika people of Mali and the Maroons of Jamaica. Aishé is a Seattle Healing Artist. She works with breath work, meditation, medicine making and performance theater healing. Aishé attributes her passion about health and healing first to her mother. From youth her mother taught her the tools of the medicine woman, knowing how to heal yourself holistically with herbs and food. She then gives high praise to her teachers,who have guided her journey in breath work , grief ritual, Ancestral work and medicine making for black and brown folx. Aishé has facilitated healing circles with various communities ; including the VA, Women/Men/Youth Correctional facilities and our elder communities.You can heal with her every Monday at Monday Night Meditation at Nile's Edge and in private breath work/root medicine sessions.
Contact Aishé here: aishekstory@gmail.com
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