She invites you to call or text if you have questions about services (816) 665-3003.  Olufemi takes great pleasure in working with a diverse group of individuals from a range of cultures, histories and backgrounds.  She is gifted in bringing out what is possible and unique in the individuals she works with.  She believes everyone has the capacity to reach their fullest potential within a  respectful and healthy environment or community of supportive people cheerleading their continual success.

Olufemi is exceedingly grateful and privileged to have accompanied hundreds of individuals along their unique path of healing in overcoming symptoms of anxiety, complicated grief,  shame, relationship challenges, trauma, loneliness, BPD, ADHD, bipolar, depression, family conflict, low self-worth, etc.  Together with her client they sort out the issues, identify, name, untangle and begin the process of releasing, shedding old ideas, limiting beliefs, false identities, ancient holdings of concepts and conditions that might have historically stifled personal growth, abundance, success and connection.  

Olufemi provides a safe, supportive healing space to assist individuals  and couples in naming what matters most to them and tailoring treatment objectives to fit each person’s distinguished life experience. She actively listens to understand, guide, teach, comfort and coach. Offerings of wisdom, insight & solutions as well as resources are included in the sessions.  Providing insight, tools, wisdom and solution-based therapy is helpful to the extent that it shifts away from faulty mental habits and re-orienting to more balanced thinking and regulated emotions.

Olufemi is honored and humbled to have answered the call to her life purpose in becoming a mental health therapist she embraces the whole-person wellness approach to therapy. Bottom up- top down therapy this approach is designed to help people up-regulate emotional energy by becoming more present in the here and now and utilizing positive self-talk and energy healing rituals.

Olufemi is the embodiment of a tender heart-truth teller in the business of helping alleviate individual distress, anxiety, depression, angst, trauma, stress, low self-worth, negative body issues, gender dysphoria, communication struggles, loneliness, fear, family conflict and romantic relationship struggles.  Olufemi understands that suffering or distress arrive in a number of guises that can look like anger, stress, anxiety, guilt, grief, despair, trauma, loneliness, lack, emptiness, numbness, relationship conflict, confusion, family dysfunction, depression, fear, self-loathing, disappointment, frustration, anger, discouragement, eating disorders, addiction and some existential issues.  One thing is sure, the people who walk into her office want to feel better.  

Olufemi is right there to provide warm acceptance and the tools, strategies, skills, resources and often times the language to yield relief of symptoms and positive treatment outcomes.  No matter how painful a situation a person may find themselves in there is a resolve a solution a pathway to a new freedom, a new happiness and a new joy.

Using a combination of therapeutic approaches allow Olufemi the use of a broad range of modalities available to help reduce and eliminate symptoms associated  with the stress  hormone response system better known as the fight-flight-freeze or hide system (the hot system).  She knows that having available a conglomeration of tools, skills, techniques, rituals, and strategies help to soften, settle, calm and recalibrate the nervous system in the body and limbic system in the brain.  Olufemi has collected a blend of therapeutic approaches well researched and experientially practiced for hundreds of years within indigenous cultures in different parts of the world. 

Healing and Transformation

Olufemi is an expert mindfulness leader, mystic, sage energy healer, trauma-informed and cognitive therapist.  She has trained in Phuket, Thailand, Shanghai, China, Accra, Ghana, Costa Rica, Central America, Rome, Italy, Esalen Center in Big Sur, California. Also studied at 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley, California, Sedona Mago Center in Sedona, Arizona, and at Garrison Center in New York City.  Olufemi is a long-term member of the American Counseling Association.

Olufemi is happy to hear your story and support your path of overcoming and becoming.  She knows that successful therapy results are contingent upon the individual’s willingness to do the therapy work and apply the tools and skills between sessions.  The work done in therapy supports emotional relief of anxiety, depression, trauma memories. It improves of communication and offers creative ways to heal and relax.  Through the use of breath work meditation, energy clearing rituals, visualizations, body movement/restorative yoga, tai chi, tapping, dancing, art, singing, and journaling/writing assignments all aid in overcoming cognitive distortions, limiting beliefs, shame spirals and more.

The following are personal remarks from the provider: Olufemi Y. Sharp.