My Story
Dr. Omileye
“Omi”
Writer, storyteller, artist, Cultural Alchemist, and Fifth Generation African-Caribbean Vision Keeper, Seer and Healer. Born in London to a Trinidadian father and a Jamaican mother, she carries the living threads of the African diaspora in her blood and in her work — weaving stories across continents, traditions and hearts.
Trained as a psychotherapist and Doctor of Classical Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, and Herbs, she is also a former journalist with the UK's The Voice newspaper, an initiated Priestess of the Ifá and Osun Oracular and healing traditions, and a student of indigenous elders across the globe. This rare constellation of knowledge informs her life's work: the healing of individual and collective epigenetic and ancestral trauma — tracing the wounds of transatlantic slavery, colonization, and holocaust back to their roots, and finding the way home.
At the heart of her practice is what she calls Cultural Alchemy — the art of entering different spiritual traditions deeply enough to distill their hidden essence, and discovering in that meeting something new, universal, and alive. Through writing, storytelling, art, and Daoist and indigenous healing technologies, she guides individuals to unearth the stories buried within themselves and, in doing so, begin to heal.
She currently teaches at the Center for Sacred Studies and serves as a CEU instructor in ancient Daoist acupuncture protocols and the role of Wu Shamans in Daoist medicine. At her Daoist-based clinic, she holds space for deep personal transformation, while simultaneously conducting research for her forthcoming book and undertaking her own profound healing journey across Africa — most recently in Rwanda.
Dr. Omi is recognized for the accuracy and depth of her visions and insights. She is a founding member of the UN's Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA) and has been invited to address the United Nations on the sacred importance of Water — work she sees as inseparable from her broader mission. For Dr. Omi, the Waters are not metaphor alone; they carry ancient wisdom capable of guiding humanity toward what she calls a cooler existence.
Ultimately, she holds no separation between the healing of Self, lineage, and environment. She believes that true healing does not belong to medicine alone, but to the realm of creative imagination — to the grammar of animacy, the language through which the living world speaks, and through which we finally learn to listen.
Ancestors in tall grass waiting
for your return
- Omi
Studies and Accomplishments
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BA, African Studies
University of London — SOAS
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BSc, Ayurvedic Medicine
Ayurvedic College (UK)
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M.Ed Counseling
Winthrop University
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Doctor Chinese Medicine-Acupuncture
Daoist Traditions College
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Reiki Master
Teacher Will Daddario
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Master Chinese Medicine
Daoist Traditions College
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Licensure & Certifications
Licensure & certifications
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) & School Counselor
Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac)
Doctor of Acupuncture and Classical Chinese Medicine (DACM)
NCCAOM Board Certified in Oriental Medicine, Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine
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Accomplishments
Kirkus Starred Review for My Heart Flies Open
TAPAS Artist-in-Residence, Asheville City Schools Foundation
Invited by the United Nations to help form the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance (GIWA)
Teacher at the Center for Sacred Studies
Creator of Trauma-Focused Mindfulness Skills programs for schools
Former journalist for The Voice newspaper (UK)
Published books
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North Atlantic Books (with Penguin Random House)
Kirkus Starred Review
“Achikeobi-Lewis' lyrical prose and visual art combine to offer a beautiful experience of mindfulness and movement perfect for meaningful time between children and caregivers that will feed the spirits of both."
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X Press Publishers
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Naked Truth Publisher
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Naked Truth Publishers