Contact details
Address
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom
About
Overview
Dr Ohemaa Nkansa-Dwamena is an Associate Professor on the Professional Doctorate (DPsych) in Counselling Psychology, and a practicing Counselling Psychologist. In her role on the DPsych, Ohemaa is module leader for the Year 1 Context, Diversity and Professional Standards module and Year 2 Cross Cultural and Anti-Discriminatory Practice. She supervises doctoral research, co-facilitates service user involvement on the programme and is lead and personal tutor for Year One of the programme.
Her research interests lie in the use of qualitative methods to study a range of applied counselling psychology topics, with experience predominantly in phenomenological approaches. Particular interests include multiple identity negotiation (including those pertaining to racial, sexual and gender identities), minority identities and intersectionality and issues related to race, African diasporan mental health, culture and mental health.
Dr Nkansa-Dwamena currently works in private practice. She has previously held psychologist and senior psychologist roles in the NHS, across primary and secondary care teams, higher education counselling services and positions in third sector organizations.
Dr Nkansa-Dwamena has a BA (Hons) degree in Applied Psychology from University of Sussex, completed her DPsych in Counselling Psychology at City, University of London, and has advanced certification in schema therapy.
Languages
Twi (can read, write, speak and understand spoken).
Publications
Featured publications
- Ade-Serrano, D.Y. and Nkansa-Dwamena, D.O. (2020). Applied Psychology and Allied Professions Working with Ethnic Minorities. ISBN 978-1-85433-780-1.
- McIntosh, M., Ade-Serrano, Y. and Nkansa-Dwamena, O. (2016). Race, Culture and Diversity: A collection of articles. Nkansa-Dwamena, O. (Ed.), British Psychological Society.
- Nkansa-Dwamena, O. and Ade-Serrano, Y. (2023). Race, culture and ethnicity – what is your story? In Hanley, T. and White, L. (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy (pp. 67–73). SAGE. ISBN 978-1-5297-8586-9.
- Nkansa-Dwamena, O. (2017). Contemporary Feminism and Counselling Psychology. In Ade-Serrano, Y. and McIntosh, M. (Eds.), Race, Culture and Diversity: A collection of articles (pp. 56–69). Leicester: The British Psychological Society. ISBN 978-1-85433-749-8.
- NKANSA‐DWAMENA, O. (2015). Issues of Race and Ethnicity in Counselling Psychology. (pp. 265–280). Wiley. ISBN 978-1-119-10685-2.
- Kumar, S., Fitzpatrick, R., Thorne, L. and Nkansa-Dwamena, O. (2014). Ethnic Inequalities in mental health: Promoting lasting and positive change..
Publications by category
Chapter
- Nkansa-Dwamena, O. (2023). Attending to self, attending to others: Racial trauma in the therapy room. In Cooke, R. and Zahid, N. (Eds.), THERAPISTS CHALLENGING RACISM AND OPPRESSION The Unheard Voices ISBN 978-1-915220-29-5.
Other
- Ade-Serrano, Y. and Nkansa-Dwamena, O. (2016). Black lives matter.