Institute for Ashé MovementIAM Online
About
Ashé Movement is a holistic, mind-body-spirit approach to healing, wellness, and life strategies.
The Institute for Ashé Movement (IAM) provides affirming, strengths-based, and culturally resonant mental health and community support services for individuals, partners/couples, families, and groups in the greater New Orleans area. These therapies can be accessed as stand alone services, or with the Ashé Pantheon, our signature therapeutic dance program.
IAM in Community
IAM also offers community art and wellness programs including storytelling, Art-in-the-Park, restorative yoga, educational mind-body-spirit workshops, and support groups.
All IAM therapy is offered on a sliding scale basis. All IAM community programs are donation-based.
Who We Are
IAM comprises leaders in the emerging work of healing arts and transformative therapy who are licensed therapists, counselors, social workers, artists, professionally certified educators, scholars, and dedicated practitioners in West African indigenous healing systems.
IAM’s therapists are committed to co-creating safe and brave spaces to facilitate emotional healing, and to ensuring access to professional and knowledgeable therapy for everyone.
IAM is led by founder and Clinical Director, Dr. Marshall Lee, a clinical psychologist and a renowned teacher and practitioner in the African-indigenous healing movement.
Who We Serve
IAM works in community, serving the people of historic Gert Town and all of greater New Orleans and the state of Louisiana.
Specialties and Areas of Focus
We offer support for individuals, partners/couples, families, and groups.
Trauma: PTSD • present/ongoing • personal • historical • systemic • intergenerational
Anxiety • Depression • Stress Management • General wellness goals
Family and relational • Life strategy & visioning • Coping skills
Grief and loss • Personality “disorders” • Spirituality
Populations
Adults • Adolescents • Youth • Children • Elders
Queer/Trans/Nonbinary/LGBTQ+ people, partners, families
Students • Activists/Organizers • Practitioners • Artists
IAM Vision & Values
Vision
Our vision and mission for healing is the Ashé Consciousness: a liberated mind-body-spirit wholeness, that is affirmed and supported by culturally resonant and fully accessible innovative therapies.
Mission
There are well-documented barriers for many individuals and populations to seeking and fully engaging in therapy. IAM’s mission is to provide a space for all people to engage in meaningful, comprehensive, transformative healing and growth.
Our Values
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- Commitment – to our community: the communities of which we are a part, the communities where we live and work
- Integrity – in our healing work, in our client engagement, and in our disciplined study and practice of psychotherapy and of African indigenous knowledge and healing traditions
- Creativity and Innovation – in our thinking, in participatory research, and in methods for effective, compelling, and attainable integrative therapies
New Orleans Facts
58.8
%
African American Population
17.9
%
Have Not Seen a Doctor in Over a Year
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IAM Community
IAM Team
Dr. Marshall Lee
Dr. Marshall Mkononi Lee received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Lee is a Yoruba Priest initiated through the Lukumi tradition of Cuba. He has provided clinical psychotherapy and has taught as a professor of psychology at various prestigious -Click for More -
EXPRESSIVE ARTS THERAPIST
Nana Fofie Bashir brings over 25 years of community and organizational leadership in healing arts and social justice to her role as expressive arts therapist at the Institute for Ashé Movement. Since 2015, Nana Fofie has served as principle consultant and facilitator ~Click image for more~
Ashé Dance/Movement Program Director
Andrea Peoples is a seasoned African, Afro Cuban, and Dunham Technique dancer and choreographer. She is honored to have studied with some of the world’s greatest master dancers and musicians. ~Click image for more~
CHAIR, BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Pamela R. Franco, PhD, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, is the current Board Chair of the Institute for Ashe Movement. She holds a graduate degree in Art History from Emory University. ~Click image for more~
Michael Robinson
Michael A. Robinson is a retired senior corporate finance executive. He remains an active corporate finance consultant to various public and private companies and also serves as a trustee for a private family estate. Mr. Robinson was formerly Senior Vice President and Corporate Treasurer of Tyco ~Click image for more~
Dr. Betty Brown
Dr. Betty S Brown is a retired Clinical Psychologist who received her PHD from Howard University. She has been licensed for over 20 years and embraces an African Center approach to psychology. She is currently retired. Most recently she has worked as a psychologist for U.S. Army Recruiting, Tulane University, Dillard University and ~Click image for more~
Derrick Freeman
Dr. Freeman joined the Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) School of Social Work full-time in January 2015 as an Assistant Professor. He is an Adjunct Faculty member at Tulane University School of Social Work, and he has ownership in a behavioral health private practice. He earned his MSW from SUNO School of Social Work in ~Click image for more~Partnerships
