Sacramento Area · Telehealth across California

Culturally-rooted therapy
for individuals and couples.

Two lineages, one practice. We hold ancestral wisdom and skilled clinical care in the same room — so you never have to explain the parts of yourself that matter most.

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Our name, our roots

The name is the practice.

Ori

Honors one founder's Black American and Pan-African identity — the belief that each person carries an inner compass, and that healing means listening to it again alongside the wisdom of those who came before.

Aisha

Honors the other founder's Indo-Fijian ancestry — a lineage of migration, resilience, and care carried across oceans, where family, faith, and community shape what wellness is allowed to look like.

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Two histories meeting is not a metaphor here — it is the clinical stance. We practice at the seam where culture, body, faith, sexuality, and family expectation all press on a person at once.

Services

Care that meets the whole of you.

  • Couples Counseling

    For partners rebuilding trust, navigating conflict, intimacy, or intercultural and interfaith family pressure. We slow the cycle down, make each person's meaning legible to the other, and build repair you can practice at home.

  • Individual Therapy

    Integrative & person-centered

    Support for anxiety, depression, trauma, big emotions, and life transitions. We draw on a range of approaches and shape the work around you — practical tools when you want them, depth when you need it.

  • Sex Therapy

    Talk-based, sex-positive care for desire differences, pain or difficulty with sex, shame, mismatched expectations, pleasure, and repair after betrayal. Non-judgmental about identity, relationship structure, or practice.

  • LGBTQ+ & Gender-Affirming Care

    Affirming therapy for queer, trans, and nonbinary clients — including gender transition support, exploring identity at any age, coming out with family, and navigating systems that ask you to prove yourself.

The through-line

Culturally-rooted care runs through every service we offer. Your culture is not context we work around — it is material we work with.

That means we ask about lineage, migration, faith, language, and what your family calls "normal." It means we name racism, colonialism, and cisheteronormativity as real sources of harm rather than personal failings. And it means we adapt our approach to you — not the other way around.

Our approach

Rigorous, warm, and never neutral about your dignity.

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  1. Integrative & person-centered

    We don't fit you to a single method. We draw from a range of approaches and adapt them to who you are, what you're carrying, and how you actually want to work — you set the pace and the direction.

  2. Culturally responsive

    We treat culture, faith, and family systems as central clinical information. You set the terms of what's honored and what's questioned.

  3. Anti-oppressive

    Therapy that accounts for power. We look at the systems shaping your life and refuse to pathologize a reasonable response to an unreasonable environment.

  4. Sex-positive & affirming

    Bodies, desire, gender, and pleasure belong in therapy. All identities, orientations, and relationship structures are welcome without qualification.

Practical information

The plain details.

Telehealth
Secure video sessions for clients anywhere in California.
In person
Coming soon. We are working toward in-person sessions in the Sacramento area, and will share details here once the space is ready.
Sliding scale
A limited number of reduced-rate spots are held open. Ask on the consultation call — the conversation is welcome.
Getting started
Send an inquiry below — online inquiry is the way to reach us right now. We'll reply within two business days to set up a brief consultation call, where we talk through fit, scheduling, and rates.

Inquiries

Reach out.

Tell us a little about what you're looking for. A member of the practice will respond within two business days. This form is the best way to reach us — you can also write to info@oriaishawellness.com.

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