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Mayowa Obasaju, Ph.D.
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Dr. Obasaju brings over 17 years of practice experience and a clinical framework that takes seriously the role of family, community, and systemic oppression in shaping mental health. Her approach integrates Internal Family Systems, Multicultural Family Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, embodiment work, and Emotional Freedom Technique within an explicitly liberation-oriented frame. She focuses on identifying healing practices and how people thrive and become whole in the face of multiple traumas and oppressions. She does not treat clients as problems to be fixed. She works alongside them to surface the resilience, cultural wisdom, and inner knowing they already carry.
In addition to individual therapy, Dr. Obasaju facilitates group therapy experiences designed specifically for communities that rarely find themselves centered in mainstream mental health spaces: Black birthing people facing infertility, BIPOC women and gender expansive folks, and parents and caregivers raising children toward justice and liberation. These groups are intentional spaces for collective healing, honest naming, and shared strength.
Therapy is not just about solutions. It is about supporting you in crafting your own path.
Dr. Obasaju holds a PhD in Clinical and Community Psychology from Georgia State University. She holds advanced certifications in Internal Family Systems (Levels 1 and 2), Emotional Freedom Technique (Levels 1 and 2), and maternal mental health through Postpartum Support International and the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health. She practices entirely via telehealth and is currently accepting new individual and group clients in New York and New Jersey.
Seeing Clients in:
New York & New Jersey
How I Work...
- My work is grounded in liberation psychology and cultural humility. Who you are, your race, gender, spirituality, family history, community ties, and the systems you navigate every day, and your relationship to power is not background information. It is central to the work. You will not need to minimize, explain away, or translate your experience here.
- My approach is integrative. I draw from Internal Family Systems, Multicultural Family Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, embodiment practices, and Emotional Freedom Technique, weaving these together based on what you need and what resonates with you. No single method fits every person, and I am not attached to a rigid formula.
- I am interested in the full picture. The stress, sadness, grief, and rage you are carrying today rarely appear out of nowhere. In our work together, we explore the roots, personal, relational, and systemic, and examine how those experiences live in you now, in your body, your relationships, and your sense of self.
- I work alongside you, not above you. We will identify together what you are working toward and what pathways make sense for your life. I believe deeply that the most meaningful change happens when your voice, your values, and your cultural wisdom are driving the process.
- I also hold space for the collective. Healing does not happen in isolation. Part of our work may involve identifying communities of support, naming the impact of oppression honestly, and building strategies that are not just personally sustaining but liberatory.
- I offer tools, strategies, practices, and education to support you on your journey towards optimal well-being and thriving.
- I want therapy with me to feel real. You do not need the right words or a tidy narrative. You can be uncertain, angry, grieving, or still figuring out why you are here. That is not a problem to solve before we start. That is exactly where we begin.
I provide online Therapy for Adults (18+)
- $300 per 45-50 minute individual therapy session
