Mentorship, workshops, and community programs.
Mentorship, community healing, professional growth, and student support. Here is how MAABPsi turns African-centered psychology into working programs for Metro Atlanta.
The Baobab Tree Mentorship Program
The baobab is called the tree of life. It survives harsh seasons and shelters whole communities. Our mentorship program is built in its image: a professional family tree where wisdom moves between generations and no one grows alone.
Experienced psychologists who carry the qualities of a Jegna (courage, excellence, and dedication to advancing our people and culture) are paired with students and early-career professionals based on shared interests, goals, and expertise.
Monthly mentorship meetings
Structured conversations on career development, real challenges in the field, and strategies for advancement.
Quarterly skill workshops
Focused sessions on clinical skills, research methods, and community engagement strategies.
Cultural and ethical guidance
Ethics and cultural grounding woven through every pairing, not added as an afterthought.
Programs that keep the community strong.
Community gatherings
From our Sankofa Celebration each December to the summer chapter cookout, we gather to eat, connect, honor our history, and welcome new faces. Good food and familiar faces keep a fifty-year-old chapter alive.
Professional development
Workshops, trainings, and continuing education built around culturally responsive care and African-centered practice, led by and for practitioners in the field.
Student engagement
Atlanta holds one of the richest concentrations of Black scholarship in the country. We build bridges to campuses across the metro, support psychology students, and connect them to the national ABPsi Student Circle.
Community outreach
Partnerships and service projects that bring culturally grounded psychological insight to schools, churches, and community organizations across Metro Atlanta.
Healing and wellness spaces
Programming from our Health, Wellness, and Healing Committee: spaces for rest, restoration, and community care, because healers need healing too.
Advocacy
A credible professional voice on issues affecting Black mental health in Georgia, carrying forward a chapter tradition that includes public statements and community summits on racial trauma.
On campus, in person.
Student engagement is not a committee name to us. Members show up on Atlanta campuses to speak, mentor, and recruit the next generation of Black psychologists into the field.
Membership here connects you to a national body of work.
As a MAABPsi member you stand inside the national Association of Black Psychologists, with programs that extend well beyond Atlanta:
Sawubona Healing Circles
Virtual healing circles for people of African ancestry, using culturally affirming strategies to address racial stress. Sawubona means "we see you."
Certification in African/Black Psychology
The national standard of proficiency for African-centered psychology, open to ABPsi members in good standing.
Annual International Convention
Each year ABPsi convenes psychologists from across the world for scholarship, ceremony, and community, including a free public Community Day.