Anthonia Otunla is a graduate of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria, and of the University of Keele, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. She specialised in traumatic stress at the Trauma Research Foundation in the United States. She is a trauma specialist, mental health counselor, and nonviolent communication practitioner with more than 17 years of experience in neurobiology, neuropsychology, community health, leadership, and volunteer work. Anthonia’s mission is to help people who have experienced trauma recover. She is particularly interested in treating men and women suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosomatic symptoms caused by childhood trauma using evidence-based methods and strategies that affect embodiment, self-regulation, modulation, and traumatic experience integration, allowing them to live as self-actualised individuals and joyful thrivers. She is an analytical, efficient, and empathetic leader, team builder, and collaborator with a passion to promote healing and peace around the world through empathy, trauma recovery, and nonviolent communication methods. She credits the Mandela Washington Fellowship with inspiring her to bring wellness and healing to Nigerians suffering from trauma symptoms and disorders.
