Jihan Eley, LCSW-C, is a mental health consultant, trainer, and grief-informed clinician who helps organizations build sustainable cultures of care. Her work is grounded in over a decade of direct clinical practice — including EMDR, somatic approaches, and grief-informed frameworks — and shaped by her own experience navigating burnout and personal loss.

Before founding her practice, Jihan worked across community mental health settings, including foster care, youth development, substance use treatment, and family court — work that deepened her understanding of systemic trauma and the resilience required to navigate structural barriers to care.

Today, Jihan brings that clinical grounding to organizations, universities, and mental health practices, helping teams build capacity around burnout, grief, and cultural humility through workshops, trainings, and consulting engagements. Her approach blends nervous-system education, grief theory, somatic practice, and lived experience.

Jihan earned her Master's in Social Work from Howard University and continues to see clients through her private practice, True Other Wellness. Whether she's facilitating a training for clinicians, guiding an organizational retreat, or consulting on burnout recovery, her work rests on one belief:

Care is not a luxury. It's a human need.