N. Oumou Sylla, LMFT, M.A.

as seen in: Athleta, xoNecole, them, The Exit, Giddy, MindBodyGreen, ZENCARE, saddie baddies, Intersectional Fertility,Women Write About Comics

oumou is a Senegalese-Guinean, multi-hyphenate polycreative - therapist(ish), coach, disruptor, zinester, writer, speaker, consultant and facilitator of spaces for radical learning. oumou is a two-time graduate of Syracuse University and former adjunct professor of the same school. she is the creator of RMHFA, a workshop that is slowly but surely changing the care and mental health landscape. 

oumou’s lived and professional experiences are gifts that allow her to support people and businesses in intuitive and radical ways. their work aims to disrupt systems of disconnection, the laziness lie, the productivity death escalator and “the transactional ways in which relationships exist under capitalism” (word 2 niki franco). 

in her work, she incorporates different modes of learning, facilitation, processing and healing based on your needs, context, and background. they are mindful and aware that we are impacted by Anti-Blackness, Ableism, Gender Based Oppression, Capitalism, state sanctioned violence, and other forms of systemic injustice in every aspect of our lives including our businesses and thinks of pleasure, play, rest and care as vessels for resistance. 

some identities + realities that inform her lived experience: Black, immigrant from Senegal, naturalized citizen of the US, Queer, Muslim, almost 30, thin, neurodivergent, abolition influenced, gender bender, $185k in student loans and class clown of the NBHS class of 2013.

image description: oumou sylla, a Black person with dark skin, shaved blonde hair, white rimmed circular glasses and natural makeup is seated in a wooden chair on a stage. they are holding a mic and staring into the distance with a closed-lipped smile. they are wearing a black outfit with silver jewelry in their ears and on their fingers. they are also wearing black faux cow hide cowboy boots and have a wooden purse with a metal chain hanging off of their chair.