A consultancy and a community, built together
Nawiri Akili-Care Africa
A professional mental health consultancy delivering evidence-based therapy, psychological consultation, and organisational wellness rooted in local understanding and global best practice.
Nawiri Akili Initiative
Our community impact arm, extending our mission into schools and neighborhoods through education, awareness, and subsidised or complimentary care for those who require support.
One ecosystem
Together they form one ecosystem of professional excellence and community access, connected by a shared belief that mental wellness belongs to everyone.
What we’re building toward
Our Vision
A future where mental wellness is understood, accessible, and actively supported across Africa and beyond, ensuring that blooming is not the exception but the expectation.
Our Mission
To provide professional, evidence-based mental health care, and to extend that care into communities through education, subsidised or cost-free support, and lasting partnerships for a mentally flourishing community.
Our Approach
Evidence-based, community-centered, and culturally grounded. We build care that belongs here, rooted in African reality, informed by global best practice, and committed to access above all else.
What guides us
Dignity
Every person who reaches out is met with full humanity, free of judgment and conditions.
Access
Care that cannot be reached is not care. We actively remove every barrier we can.
Community
Healing happens in relationships. We believe in the collective capacity to hold and uplift one another.
Evidence
Our practice is grounded in psychological science and thoughtfully adapted to real local contexts.
Rootedness
African in understanding, language, and approach. We build mental health care that belongs here.
Openness
We actively break the silence around mental health through dedicated education and trust.
How We Work: Profit for Purpose
Nawiri operates as a hybrid social enterprise. Nawiri Akili-Care Africa, our registered consultancy, generates professional revenue through therapy and organisational wellness services. That revenue directly supports the Nawiri Akili Initiative, which serves as our community impact arm.
Community sponsorships and corporate partnerships are received and managed through the consultancy while the Initiative’s formal CBO registration is being finalised. Every contribution is tracked independently to ensure community-first sponsorships go directly toward subsidised care, school programs, and free community sessions.
We believe professional expertise should fuel social change. Thank you for partnering with us to help communities bloom.
Built from experience. Driven by purpose.
Nawiri was born from a professional understanding, a caring heart, and a mind that has firsthand known the weight of struggling without support.
Peris Gichuki is a licensed psychologist with over five years of clinical and community experience spanning psychotherapy, psychosocial counselling, trauma-informed care, addiction rehabilitation, GBV-integrated support, clinical supervision, and community outreach.
She grew up wishing she had the language to name what she felt, the guidance to make sense of it, and a safe space to speak it without fear.
Built for the generation coming up, built for communities that have been waiting too long, and built on the belief that professional care and open, barrier-free access are not two separate goals. They are two halves of the same commitment.