meet the team
Rebecca Woodward, MSW, RMT | Founder + Executive Director
Rebecca holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from Salisbury University and a Bachelor’s degree in Child Development and Family Studies from West Virginia University. She has spent over a decade working in health and human services primarily with underserved and marginalized populations.
Six years into her career as a clinical social worker, Rebecca began to notice a plateau in symptom relief for many clients experiencing trauma. This prompted her to explore somatic and energetic approaches to healing. She became a certified Zumba instructor, a Reiki Master Teacher, and a Biofield Energy Healer.
Through her training in energy healing, Rebecca experienced relief from her own trauma-related symptoms that had persisted despite engagement in clinical therapy. This transformation motivated her to share and study these modalities, with the goal of expanding access to integrative, body- and biofield-based healing approaches bringing them into clinical healthcare.
Oriyomi Oshundare, MPH, RMT | Founding Research Collaborator
Oriyomi is a graduate of The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, where she earned a Master of Public Health, and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Health, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Behavioral and Community Health.
Across her academic training and career, Oriyomi developed a focused interest in behavioral and mental health outcomes, with particular attention to disparities impacting underserved and minority communities. She recently served as a Senior Health Specialist with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy’s PATIENTS Program contributing to research supporting efforts to improve health outcomes for underserved populations.
Oriyomi is also the founder of The Odyssey Holistic Health & Wellness, a healing practice informed by her training in Reiki, sound healing, and African spiritual traditions. Oriyomi brings essential skill and perspective to the work through her education and training in public health, her experience as a healer and her lived experience as a survivor.