Biography

Urana Jackson, LMFT (she/her) is a space holder, healing justice practitioner, and psychotherapist. She has worked in community-based mental health for over 20 years, and most recently oversaw the mental health programming for middle schools in Oakland Unified School District. She was an instructor for a course on restorative justice for 18 years at UC Berkeley School of Law’s summer legal fellowship program. Urana is the published author of Girls Rising (Parallax Press, 2015) and the creator of “Ancestor’s Keeper”, a curriculum for adolescent youth around racial trauma and healing. She currently has a private practice in Oakland, CA, in which she works predominantly with women and people of color around issues of trauma and grief. Urana was initiated in the Ifa/Lucumi spiritual tradition in 2006 and her interest lies in integrating various western therapeutic modalities with spiritual technologies. She is a devotee of Mother Earth and much of Urana’s time is spent in Her presence: hiking, making art, surfing and roller skating. Urana is a daughter, partner, bonus mom and loyal servant to two Siamese cats.