Therapists & Staff

Victoria Moon (She/Her/Jawn). In her undergraduate career, she received a degree in Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies from the West Chester University of PA. She holds a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Immaculata University. In her career, Victoria has worked to end the stigma surrounding substance abuse, housing insecurity, sexual education, and child welfare. Victoria has aspirations of being a licensed therapist that specializes in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders and normalizing the community needed for all birthers. Victoria hopes that her work can aid other community support in ending the Black Mortality Crisis. When she is not engaging in the work that she loves, she is rehearsing for car concerts with her son or playing the Sims. She has a passion for storytelling and highlighting the experiences of the children of the diaspora. Victoria utilizes multiple theoretical practices and real-world examples to aid clients in living in their most authentic purpose.

Khadijah is a therapist who is committed to culturally sensitive, client driven and accessible therapy for all couples, families and individuals. Her focus is on meeting clients where they are and creating safe spaces for change using a strengths based and trauma informed lens. Trained by leading figures in the field through Drexel’s MFT program, she has gained a thorough knowledge of clinical application of classic and post-modern therapy approaches. Khadijah has a wide range of experience in the mental health field including servicing inner city minority youth and families in the home, school and community settings. She also has experience working in the primary care setting at Drexel Medicine collaborating with health care providers to help clients cope with major health and life transitions. She approaches therapy with an integrative style, lending from CBT, Narrative, Contextual and Somatic therapy to help clients create and reshape their support systems to maintain narratives that continue to promote client growth and healing. Her belief is that healing can be achieved by telling our stories, witnessing our resilience and strengths and identifying and freeing ourselves from what is no longer serving us.

Jordan Garvin is a couples and family therapist committed to empowering people to live out healthy lives and relationships through expressing love and nurturing deep understanding. Jordan is DMW (PG County) native, a Towson University and Drexel University graduate, a certified PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator. Her clinical experience includes working with individuals, couples, and families through challenges such as reconciliation after infidelity, lack of sexual intimacy, miscarriages, abortions, body image, communication, anxiety and self esteem. Her experience working with expectant mothers and mothers of young children in active recovery from substance use disorders, Jordan adopted her emotion-focused and psychoeducational approach to therapy emphasizing the impact of social justice and body awareness. Jordan's favorite quote is “Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” - James Baldwin

Ebony DeBrest is a certified Full Spectrum Doula, serious about serving. She wholeheartedly believes that everyone is deserving of respectable supportive care on their unique journey to parenthood. As a Mama herself, who had two vastly different experiences, she “overstands” why present passionate support and care are necessary in the fight to Save Black Women and Black Children!

Some of Ebony’s educational enhancements, certifications, professional and community affiliations are; D.O.N.A., Inner Circle Midwifery, Ancient Song Doula Services, Maternity Care Coalition, Cocolife.Black, Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Birth Services, Our Baby Class, UNITE and P.A.I.L. (Perinatal and Infant Loss), Lutheran Settlement House, Temple and Temple University’s Center for Urban Bioethics,The University of Pennsylvania Hospital, and Drexel.

Samirah Brogdon is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and full spectrum doula. Her passion for birth advocacy and supporting birthing people was born in 2018 with her son. She is passionate about affecting change surrounding birth with in her community. She was born and raised in Philadelphia where she plans to continue her journey of birth work and advocacy. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her family and friends and crocheting anatomy models.

Sidnei Newman is a second year medical student at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. Newman received her undergraduate degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 2016. After graduating, she spent years working with older adults in various research studies. Newman intends to become an OB/GYN, specializing in Maternal Fetal Medicine. She hopes to learn first-hand what birthing parents and families need to make the birthing journey as seamless as possible while working with Oshun Family Center in a volunteer capacity. Newman is hopeful that collaboration efforts between hospitals and community birth networks will be the way of the future.