Tanya Alkhaliq, M.S. (Candidate), LMFTA (Pending)

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate (Candidate) | Author | Professor | Spiritual Leader | Cultural Scholar

Tanya A. Alkhaliq is a bold and visionary therapist, author, professor, and spiritual leader whose work lives at the intersection of mental health, decolonized theology, Black identity, and intergenerational healing. She has successfully passed the National Marriage and Family Therapy Exam and is currently pursuing licensure as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Associate (LMFTA) in the state of North Carolina.

Tanya holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and is completing her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at Capella University (September 2025), with a strong clinical focus on culturally responsive, trauma-informed care for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and spiritually diverse populations. Her integrative therapeutic approach draws from Narrative, Experiential, IFS-informed, Collaborative, Structural, and African-centered healing traditions.

She is the President and Founder of Inner Healing Therapeutic Services, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving Black and historically marginalized communities through therapeutic, spiritual, and educational support. The organization centers the intersections of Blackness, religion, sexuality, and mental health, and exists to dismantle stigma and offer culturally anchored care pathways.

In September 2025, Tanya completed her newest book, Reimagining Women in the Bible, a liberatory, womanist reexamination of biblical narratives written specifically for 21st-century Black women reclaiming spiritual power and leadership. The book will be available for purchase in October 2025.

Tanya is also the President and a Professor at Lighthouse Theological Institute and Seminary, where she teaches courses in liberation theology, African-centered pastoral care, and community leadership. She remains deeply committed to higher education and is preparing to enter a Ph.D. program in African American Studies at Emory University in Fall 2026, with a research focus on cultural mistrust, religious trauma, and mental health equity in Black communities and aims to create a culturally-responsive therapeutic modality specific for this community as her dissertation project.