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Mental Healthcare
When You
Need It Most
Begin Your Journey to Happiness
SELF IDENTITY AND DIGNITY
Connection With Others
Through our Soul Journey program for behavioral transformation, we helps families develop constructive ways to meet their needs for self-worth, identity, competence, connection with others, and purpose in life. Incorporating traditional hands-on methods of developing social consciousness and awareness, Soul Journey engages youth in exploring deeper aspects of themselves as individuals, as peers, as well as family and community members. Through diverse creative experiences, youth discover their innate gifts and talents, and have opportunities to develop them. Soul Journey works step-by-step to help young people develop tools for a new lifestyle and positive relationships that will support them in transforming their lives.
Soul Journey
GUIDANCE, CARING, SUPPORT
Direction and Connection
The Soul Journey team is a diverse group of professionals schooled in both modern clinical social work and vibrant traditional practices of family strengthening and community building. Our staff and associates include clinical social workers licensed in DC, MD, and VA; board certified psychologists and certified addiction counselors.
This experienced team works wholistically with families to provide guidance, caring and support, direction, and correction.
It Takes a Village
TO RECLAIM AND BUILD
Our Program
In offering the Soul Journey Program, we recognizes that helping people turn their lives around also means working to restore the power of their families and communities to support them. They are encouraged to examine the consequences of their choices and actions on others, themselves, and their community.
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We also serve adults with mental health and/or substance abuse issues.
Purification, Rebirth,& Letting Go.
SERVICES OFFERED
Soul Journey Experience
In practicing Restorative Justice, Soul Journey helps to create the value and power of communal norms and responsibility. All Soul Journey sessions begin with centering activities and a covenant of principles. This establishes an environment conducive to introspection, self discovery and mutual learning.
About The Soul Journey Team
Meet Our Life Management Specialist Team
Nana Gail Attakora, LCSW-C
Nana Gail Attakora, LICSW is a clinical social worker who is licensed to provide online care in District of Columbia and Maryland. She generally specializes in anxiety and depression, in addition to other issues. Nana Gail Attakora received her license to practice in District of Columbia and Maryland.
She founded Soul Journey, Inc., a nonprofit social services organization designed to provide youths, families, and communities with physical, mental, and spiritual resources that will enhance lives and promote growth and development.
Ometha Lewis-Jack,
PhD
Dr. Lewis-Jack is also a licensed clinical psychologist. Her specialty includes assessment of neurological disorders and diagnosis and treatment of substance use disorders. Dr. Lewis-Jack has worked in the field of substance use and abuse for the past 30 years. She also works extensively with the severely mentally ill and consults to several mental health agencies in the DC Metropolitan Area. Dr. Lewis-Jack is also a trained and graduated priest/spiritualist in the Akan Tradition, where she has been able to incorporate traditional African principles and healing into her psychology work.
Michael O. Dixon,
PhD, LDN, CNS
Michael O. Dixon, PhD is a metabolic nutrition registered dietitian, nutritionist, and nutrition educator. He has 15 years of experience in metabolic nutrition dietetics.
Serving the Prince George's County, Maryland, and Washington DC area, call our Life Management Specialist
CareFirst insurance accepted. Out of Network PPOs: Aetna PPO, Cigna PPO and United Healthcare.
Life Management Specialist: +1-202-430-6737
Our Locations:
Washington New Living Mental Health Services
350 Eastern Avenue | Washington | DC 20019