VÚTUKA HOUSE

We help Black women heal generational wounds, reconnect with their African roots, and reclaim their identity with no need for external validation...

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vútuka house is the home of healing, reconnection, and liberation for black women.

Through ancestral reconnection, community, and deep inner work, we help women decolonize their being, heal generational wounds, and return home to their power.

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MALIAH SAYS...

“This was quite literally a transformational and liberating experience.”

“I have a renewed sense of love, understanding, and acceptance of my whole self. I have a renewed sense of power and agency.”

GABBY SAYS...

“Yema has a calm energy and made me feel safe in our sessions.”

“I am very grateful to her for her ability to hold emotional and spiritual space. I felt understood and she was able to meet me in whatever I was going through. ”

Hello, I’m yEMA

FOUNDER

I am the founder of Vútuka House, a home for the collective work of returning to ourselves and our roots. I am a psychotherapist, facilitator, and writer taking an ancestral approach to healing the African Spirit within us.

  

My work sits at the intersection of psychotherapy, ancestral wisdom, and decolonial practice. Shaped by lived experience, professional training, and deep listening to what our bodies and lineages carry as Africans and people of African descent. I create and hold spaces where the truth of our experience in the world can be named, felt in the body, and integrated to be transformed into something new.

Vútuka House was born from the knowing - acquired through 10 years of individual psychotherapy practice with Black women- that healing is not individual, but collective and that liberation begins when we return to ourselves, to our ancestors, and each other.

Vútuka means "to return" in Kikongo, and it reflects the heart of Vútuka House as a space for Black women to return to themselves, their ancestral roots, and their power through healing, reconnection, and liberation.

YOU'RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE IF YOU ARE...

a black woman seeking connection - to yourself, your roots, and community;

tired of living with the pain of past trauma and interanlized oppression;

and ready to decolonize your mind, heal generational wounds, and reclaim your power.

12-WEEK THERAPEUTIC GROUP JOURNEY

STEPPING INTO YOUR SKIN (SiYS)

Stepping Into Your Skin is a 12-week therapeutic group journey for Black women and women of African descent who are done living disconnected from themselves.

This program supports the healing of emotional wounds, relational trauma, and identity fragmentation shaped by family, history, and systemic oppression. It is an invitation to reclaim disowned parts of yourself, confront imposed definitions of Black womanhood, and come home to your body, your truth, and your power.

LIVE ONLINE COURSE

Ancestors Calling ✨

Ancestors Calling is a live online course exploring African spiritual practice as a pathway to wellbeing, healing, and reconnection. This offering supports a gentle but powerful process of releasing fear and taboo around ancestral spirituality, and reconnecting with the divine within you and your lineage. 

RETREATS

REclaiming the african Goddess retreat

Reclaiming the African Goddess is an immersive retreat guiding Black women and women of African descent through deep healing, ancestral reconnection, and reclamation of personal power.

FREE RESOURCES

THE BLACK GIRL LIBERATION JOURNAL

31 journaling prompts to explore identity, unlearn internalised patterns, and reconnect with self through decolonial self-inquiry.

RECLAIM YOURSELF! WORKSHOP

A free course supporting you as a Black or mixed woman to detach from imposed definitions, reconnect with your authentic self, and live in alignment with who you are. 

kind words...

AMARA SAYS...

“I gained a lot from having a Black therapist”

“For example, an implicit understanding of some situations where race is a factor, and being able to vocalize my feelings of such incidents without having to sugar-coat or explain.”

ELDORA SAYS...

“this was something my ancestors knew I needed”

“My journey with Yema was something bigger than myself - a healing much needed for me, my ancestor, and my descendants .”

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