Healing Education and Research Center
Healing Educational and Research Center (HER- Center)
HER Center is dedicated to helping individuals and communities achieve greater emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. We provide mental health counseling, therapeutic education, and transformative healing services through an integrative psycho-neuro-spiritual approach that recognizes the deep connection between the mind, brain, body, and spirit.
Research shows that the brain and nervous system can change throughout life. By learning new skills, practicing healthy patterns, and embracing transformative experiences, we can create new neural pathways that support emotional well-being, healthier behaviors, and lasting personal growth. This process fosters greater harmony, wholeness, and a deeper sense of healing from within.
Living in harmony with our fundamental nature allows us to access a shared reservoir of wisdom, helping us fulfill our life’s purpose.
Healing is a collective and community affair, experienced and shared by all for we all are interconnected. Thus, the Center provides pathways to collective wellbeing and healing.
The Unified Field of Healing – A leading- edge Biopsychospiritual Perspective
Drawing on leading-edge, energy-based healing methods alongside evidence-informed therapeutic practices, we help clients cultivate resilience, restore balance, and unlock their innate capacity for healing.
HER-Center partners with healthcare organizations, nonprofit agencies, educational institutions, and community leaders to develop trauma-informed substance use disorders in a humanistic centered programs.
- Services – Research & Education-Training workshops – mental health, addiction, trauma counseling, couching, consultation, DUI, SAP-DOT counseling training,
- The Unified Field- a neuroscience and energy framework, where mind-body-spirit healing in unison,
- Research & Education – Training & workshops – teaching for healing, research on trauma, and substance use disorders and biosocial and environmental stressors impact.
The Founder- Dr Abeba Fekade
Dr. Abeba Fekade is Founder and Executive Director of the Healing Education and Research Center based in Alexandria Va. She holds a doctorate in neuropsychology and a master’s in cognitive developmental psychology from Howard University along with two undergraduate degrees in biology and psychology from Metro State University. She has taught psychology for over 20 years at various universities and colleges. Her research at the National Institute of Mental Health focuses on cognition and memory functions in individuals with severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia. She has extensive knowledge and clinical experiences understanding the relationship between traumatic experiences, mental health and substance use disorders. She is a certified MAC, Master addiction counselor, Substance Abuse Professionl, and certified in neuro-linguistic programming, certified energy-based therapies such as quantum touch, and auricular acupuncture for addiction treatment and trauma as well as mental health and wellness couching.
Her academic and clinical work has evolved into a broad vision for healing that integrates science, psychology, cultural identity, and energetic awakening, spirituality. It is embodied by her model for the Unified Field of Healing-Tewahedo-, a framework that brings together body, spirit, energy, and community as one field of life. Her work is grounded in compassion, depth, and the belief that true wellbeing emerges when the whole person is restored to harmony and alignment with self and others.
Dr. Abeba Fekade’s life has been shaped by struggle, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to human dignity. Her journey continues through the work she does, the people she serves, and the belief that healing is both a personal and collective path toward authenticity and liberation.
She holds the understanding that human beings are not passive recipients of circumstance, but active participants in shaping and reshaping their lived reality. Central to her principle is that the human spirit is inherently resilient, its capacity to endure, to grow, to heal and to transform is quite remarkable. She approaches her work as both science and a calling — where knowledge meets compassion, and transformation becomes not only possible, but sustainable and thriving.
She is grounded and guided by the principle, that states:
‘In the absence of unnecessary fear and in the presence of unconditional love, all is possible’.