Emotional Wellness Month: Honoring our Wellness Teachers Pt. 3
In honor of Emotional Wellness Month, we are happy to highlight our partnering wellness practitioners Tanisha Christie, Kemba Bloodworth, and Aishia Grevenberg.
Left to right: Tanisha Christie, Kemba Bloodworth, and Aishia Grevenberg
Tanisha Christie
I believe in the liberation of people through acknowledging and affirming their stories.. With a collaborative, holistic & directive approach, together we will create a path toward healing.
Whether it’s clinical social work practice, coaching, writing, speaking or making theater and films, each client / project / performance is an evolving story for growth.
My approach is people-centered and creative.
As an artist-educator, I have worked in many traditional and non¬traditional performance spaces, schools and universities, including Escuela de Ancon (Panama City), Anacostia Mental Health Center, My Sister’s Place, New York University, Amherst College, The Kennedy Center and Looking Glass Theatre. As Assistant Director of the former Living Stage Theatre Company, I directed original performance works and led hundreds of performances/workshops in improvisational theater and devised performances for people ages 3-103. I recently developed a creative workshop program specifically for men in addiction recovery and young girls in transitional housing for a social service organization in Brooklyn.
Kemba Bloodworth
Kemba Bloodworth (she/her) completed her masters degree at New York University. She has over a decade in community organizing and public policy, serving as a bridge linking philanthropy to cultural change and community impact. Kemba brings empathy and warmth to her practice.
Her approach to care is informed person centered practice and lived experience. She worked on 5 continents Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America, mobilizing humans as a community organizer, starting an LGBTQIA safe space in Brooklyn, converting a rural prison into a veteran sanctuary, working in entertainment for Sony, MTV, BRAVO, Oxygen, and Fuse TV.
At NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn’s Inpatient Psychiatry Behavioral Health Unit Kemba supported patients navigating trauma and symptoms from chronic mental illness including schizophrenia, hallucinations, and Bipolar Disorder. In the Medical Surgical Unit she worked with patients experiencing grief, difficult transitions, and health concerns.
At the Mental Health Association of New York, she gained experience with couples, trauma survivors, navigating anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and embracing transitions. Kemba incorporates psychodynamic, MI, CBT, DBT, MBCT, African indigenous practices spirituality, and Eastern techniques to increase wellbeing when appropriate with clients.
Aishia Grevenberg
I'm a licensed Mental Health professional specializing in early childhood trauma and toxic relationship healing. I have over 20 years experience in mental health. I've worked in jails, psych hospitals and even nursing homes. I have fancy degrees and a thriving private practice. I was an entire adjunct professor at 33 years old. I'm also a regular television personality.
What I like most about this period of my personal & professional growth and development is I’m unapologetically ALL of me. The Jersey girl who loves hip-hop and Jordan’s, the polished academic who geeks out on documentaries and the traveling doggy momma. What’s really dope is because I’m always learning more about being myself, when you work with me, all of yourself is welcomed, validated and celebrated.