Gladys Ijeoma Akunna

Gladys Ijeoma Akunna, Ph.D., is a teacher, researcher, psychotherapist, and artist with an innovative, pioneering spirit. Combining the power of movement and psychology based on both Western and indigenous African practices, she creates a unique, intriguing perspective that resonates as an authentic, African-centered thinker. Her enlightening conversations, or “akuko iho” in her native Igbo culture, showcase her unique brand of African Dance/Movement Therapy (ADMT), reintegrating integral aspects of the (Africanized) body displaced by mental and emotional stressors from troubling histories. Her emerging holistic practice of nonverbal psychotherapy counterbalances the overbearing influence of Western thought governing African mental and psycho-spiritual health.