Founder & CEO | Fawohodie Psycho-spiritual Wellness Institute
Ngânga (Restorer in Family & Community) | Psychologist | Researcher | Spiritual Practitioner
Dr. La Tronda is a Ngânga (Restorer in Family and Community), psycho-spiritual practitioner, scholar, and seasoned mental/behavioral health professional with nearly three decades of experience in community mental health, nonprofit leadership, education, and direct public service. Her life’s work is devoted to restoring wholeness, dignity, and spiritual sovereignty for individuals, families, and communities impacted by trauma, oppression, and cultural disconnection.
Professionally trained as a clinician and behavioral health practitioner, Dr. La Tronda’s expertise spans post-traumatic stress, substance use, complex childhood and intergenerational trauma, sexual assault, racial trauma, suicide risk, and self-harm behaviors.
She holds a PhD in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology (spiritual psychology) from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where her scholarship and leadership helped shape culturally grounded healing spaces within academia. She also earned a Master’s degree in Social Welfare (MSW) from the University of California, Berkeley, another Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Mills College, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology (BA) from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. La Tronda was instrumental in establishing the Center for Black and Indigenous Praxis at CIIS and served as Project Manager for the Black Psychology Project. There, she advanced Afrikan-centered scholarship, pedagogy, and community engagement for undergraduate and graduate students of Afrikan ancestry.
Dr. La Tronda has taught a range of Afrikan-centered and Black Psychology courses, including Introduction to Black Psychology, Afrikan Epistemology, Africana Research Methods, Afrikan Cosmology, and Black & Indigenous Psychologies. Her teaching centers on collective healing, ancestral ethics, and community-based ways of knowing.
In addition to her clinical and academic work, Dr. La Tronda brings over 25 years of nonprofit management and executive leadership experience, including C-suite-level roles at business consulting firms and financial corporations. Her career also includes an early career as a social worker, engaging in extensive work with youth, families, survivors of intimate partner violence, and formerly incarcerated individuals, always grounded in principles of dignity, restoration, and collective care.
Dr. La Tronda currently serves now the Chair of the General Assembly (working arm where values and vision turn into action) of the International Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi) and is an active member of the ABPsi Bay Area Chapter, contributing to international leadership, governance, and the advancement of African/Black psychology. She is also a lifetime member of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., and serves on the boards of various community organizations.
Having recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Ngânga ná Dibuti Program (a paradigm-shifting and decolonial training program of Dr. Wade Nobles, one of the founding architects of Afrikan-centered/Black Psychology) advancing it as a science and not simply an academic field of study. Dr. La Tronda continues her sacred journey as a Ngânga and practitioner of Spiritness—deepening her commitment to ancestral healing, self-reclamation, and liberation for current and future generations.
At the heart of Dr. La Tronda’s DESTINY is a simple but powerful truth: