🦋 Our Story!
Sankofa Counseling LLC, a Black owned community-based group counseling practice in Portland OR (unceded Chinook lands), opened its doors in 2017 as an act of resistance, declaration of love, and commitment to Black & Brown healing! ♥ Sankofa Counseling LLC provides life-affirming, life-giving, accessible, and heart-centered therapy and community care spaces through which BIPOC & QTBIPOC folks can find rest, recovery, and refuge. Sankofa is now recognized as a hub for community education, mutual aid, and care work. Your enthusiastic support helps us continue towards our vision of a more just world in which we all have what we need to thrive!

💝 More About Us!
Sankofa is small group of all BIPOC providers and we center working with BIPOC & QTBIPOC community members, with a specific emphasis on Black/African American children, teens, adults, and families. Our approach to healing goes beyond offering culturally-specific/identity-affirming/anti-oppressive therapy to also working to decolonize therapy by shifting the focus of wellness back to the community — hosting free community event offerings that center the health of BIPOC communities. Our goal is to provide folks with direct opportunities to build community, engage in culturally-specific wellness activities, and decrease stigma around mental health.

✨ Vanessa Washington (she/her), a Black and cisfemale Licensed Professional Counselor and Director of Sankofa Counseling LLC, saw a critical need for truly anti-racist mental health care that centers collective liberation. In 2025, our interdisciplinary team of counselors, clinical social workers, psychologists, and community partners continue to truly transform what community-based care can look and feel like! Thank you for your ongoing direct support!

To learn more about us, please visit www.sankofacounseling.org and follow along on our journey at @sankofacounseling!

🫂 There are many ways to show up for our BIPOC communities, even if it’s a bite-sized baby-step! (Some ideas: come to an event, refer a friend to us, talk about your mental health, set healthy energetic boundaries so you can stay engaged, donate to a Black trans mutual aid opportunity, leave us a Google review - not kidding this is really helpful!!, check on your friends who are care workers, advocate for accessibility in the spaces you’re already in, etc.) We got this!

~ The Sankofa ACTION Fund ~