Tanya also serves as Senior Servant of Kingdom Encounter Assembly and hosts The Family Table Podcast and The Rememory Den where she speaks about Black life, politics, and Black-centered research and she engages in transformative conversations on faith, healing, and identity.
Currently residing in Greensboro, North Carolina, Tanya continues to build therapeutic programs, spiritual ecosystems, and academic platforms that inspire radical healing and cultural liberation. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing is not a trend; it is an act of resistance, reclamation, and revolutionary love.
If you feel like Tanya would be a good fit for you, please reach out to our office for scheduling!
Tanya Alkhaliq, M.S., LMFTA
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate | 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 intersections of mental health, decolonized theology, Black identity, and intergenerational healing. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Associate (LMFTA) in North Carolina and has successfully passed the National Marriage and Family Therapy Exam her first attempt.
Tanya holds a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from Capella University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Her clinical practice centers on culturally responsive, trauma-informed therapy for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and spiritually diverse populations. Her integrative therapeutic approach draws from Narrative, Experiential, IFS-informed, Collaborative, Structural, and African-centered healing traditions, supporting clients in reclaiming voice, restoring connection, and cultivating balance.
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 programming. The organization addresses the intersections of Blackness, religion, spirituality, sexuality, and mental health by dismantling stigma and expanding access to culturally anchored pathways for healing and wholeness.
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. A lifelong learner and scholar, Tanya plans to pursue a Ph.D. in African American Studies at Emory University, with a research focus titled: Reconstituting the Sacred: Black Queer Ontology, Ritual Memory, and Practices of Reclaiming Being in the African Diaspora.
Her research seeks to explore how ritual, memory, and spiritual cosmologies across the African Diaspora can inform therapeutic practice and the reclamation of Black queer being as sacred.
As an author, Tanya’s third book, Reimagining Women in the Bible, is a liberatory, womanist reexamination of biblical narratives written for 21st-century Black women reclaiming spiritual power and leadership.
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