Sumu Sathi (BSc, BSW, MSW, PhD stud.) is a Registered Social Worker, psychotherapist, award-winning social advocate, and TEDx speaker whose work sits at the intersection of holistic healing, evidence-based research, and ancestral wisdom. As the founder of Shakti Empowerment and Counselling, she specializes in mental health, childhood trauma, grief, body image, and relationships, bringing an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed lens to everything she does.

Her psychotherapy practice is science led and spiritually grounded, incorporating both evidence-based modalities and ancestral wisdom. A doctoral student researching arts-based healing with marginalized women, Sumu draws on her lived experience to create spaces where people of all bodies and backgrounds feel genuinely seen and welcome. She is trained in EMDR, CBT, DBT, and pursuing a certificate in clinical hypnosis.