Fatimah Finney, MA, LMHC is a serial goal-setter, lover of new ideas, and imaginative thinker. She is a skilled certified L3 trained IFS therapist and trainer at the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Institute. She is also the associate director of IFS Programs and a Senior Instructor at the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion at Cambridge Health Alliance, a Harvard Medical School(HMS) teaching hospital.
Fatimah is a highly sought after speaker, thought leader and author. She’s been featured on several podcasts, including IFS Talks, where she discusses the intersection between IFS and Intercultural Competence. Her chapter on using IFS with Black Clients is published in the upcoming book IFS Integration: A Comprehensive Guide to Applying IFS Across Modalities, Populations and Clinical Presentations and her chapter on Racism, Social Location and Trauma is in the upcoming book Releasing Our Burdens: A Guide to Healing Individual, Ancestral, and Collective Trauma.
As an Intercultural competence consultant, Fatimah helps people around the world build their capacity and skills in centering diversity, equity, inclusion, navigate differences successfully and behave strategically for better cross-cultural interactions. Fatimah is a firm believer in the power of collective healing through community care and seeks to eradicate the systems of oppression that block the possibility of it.