In 2024, we’re doing the work both externally and internally, for our communities, our families, and for ourselves.
Please join the Psi Iota Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority, Inc. as we celebrate and emphasize the importance of mental health and emotional wellbeing with a discussion. Real Talk & Real Tools for Mental Wellness will take place at the Brockton Library on May 4th, 2024 at 1:30-3:30PM.
We encourage you to bring your families with you as we work to inspire emotional health through transparency and transformation. Healing is closer than you think, and communication makes all the difference.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Treniece Lewis Harris at [email protected] .
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PANELISTS
Elizabeth Louis, PhD
Elizabeth Farrah Louis is a Haitian-American licensed clinical psychologist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She conducts research on health disparities, racial and ethnic minorities wellness and global mental health. She provides clinical work to diverse clients including immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and survivors of torture from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. Dr. Louis also provides therapy to clients and patients across developmental stages. Since 2015, Dr. Louis has been engaged in extensive community-based work in Haiti focused on trauma, disaster relief, mental health, and training laypersons and health and mental health professionals. She is a recipient of the U.S. State Department Boren Fellowship where she lived in Haiti (2017-2018) and worked with Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health and grassroots organizations to address self-care, mental health literacy, and gender-based violence, and child development. She has taught at a local university in Haiti, a course on psychology and has been engaging in the train-the-trainer model with teachers, community members and leaders in different regions of Haiti. Dr. Louis completed the National Institutes of Health - Harvard University, Boston University, Fogarty Global Health Fellowship with Partners in Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima in Rwanda (2019-2020) where she supported mental health service delivery and research initiatives; she co-wrote the Rwandan national COVID-19 mental health guidelines in collaboration with the Ministry of Health. Dr. Louis serves on national and international boards with a focus on supporting and empowering underserved populations; she volunteers in communities around post-traumatic healing and racial reconciliation; serves Haitian organizations in Boston, Miami and Haiti. Dr. Louis teaches integrated behavioral health and counseling skills at Boston College to master’s students. Within her business, Lonbraj Inc. she is a diversity, equity, inclusion and feminist consultant and advocates for marginalized populations. She enjoys cooking, indoor rock climbing, listening to audiobooks, dancing; solo travel and has been to 38 countries and counting.
Lovern R. Moseley, PhD
Dr. Moseley is a Licensed Psychologist with nearly 30 years of experience in the mental health field across the lifespan. She is currently on staff in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Moseley is also the CEO of Empowerment Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, a thriving group practice with locations in MA and RI.
Dr. Moseley has worked extensively with parents and children struggling with emotional and behavioral disorders and those with traumatic exposures. She specializes in Christian counseling, marriage & family therapy including work with interracial couples, multiracial individuals, blended families, foster care/adoption and individuals of Caribbean descent. She also addresses the transition to adulthood and career concerns. She has done work in the area of disaster mental health through her involvement with the Bahamas Psychological Association in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas as well as work related to the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Ebi D. Okara, Ed.D.
Dr. Ebi D. Okara is the founder and owner of Metis Psychological Associates, LLC., a private mental health group practice, which was established in 2009 and has locations in both Randolph and Medfield, MA. He has been a clinical psychologist for over 25 years. He completed his psychology internship at the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center (BMC). After his internship, he completed a Forensic Mental Health post-doctoral fellowship (part-time) at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Okara was born and raised in Nigeria until he immigrated to the United States to study at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where he graduated with a BA in Biology. He subsequently received his master’s and doctorate degrees in Psychology from Tennessee State University in Nashville, TN. He worked at Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center, a Department of Mental Health (DMH) facility, as Associate Center Director, where he provided oversight for the delivery of outpatient mental health services to DMH patients in the South End, Roxbury, Mattapan and Dorchester areas of Boston. Dr. Okara also worked as Director of Mental Health in Bridgewater, MA where he was responsible for the delivery of mental health services to five facilities for incarcerated individuals in Massachusetts Correctional Facilities. Also, he taught at Cambridge College Graduate School Department of Counseling Psychology for several years as an Adjunct Faculty, and a staff psychologist at Dorchester Outpatient Counseling Center and at Taunton State Hospital where he conducted admission assessments and group therapy for the inpatients. He currently provides individual, couples, family and marital therapy, as a Licensed Psychologist Provider at Metis Psychological Associates, LLC, the group practice he founded in 2009.
Linda N. Wells, M.Ed., E-RYT 500 is The Wellness Warrior.
Her mission is to create a wellness rebellion by teaching people how to assert personal agency by reclaiming themselves through adaptable yoga and body trust. Recognizing that stress may be an unavoidable part of our lives, Linda draws upon her in-depth study to help her students develop resilience in the face of modern life demands.