Sabrina N’Diaye, PhD
Dr. Sabrina N’Diaye is a therapist, storyteller, and peacebuilder, with over three decades of service to the underserved. Her approach to healing is a blend of wisdom, science, and ancient spiritual practices. She is affectionately known as “Sister Sabrina” in the communities that she serves.
Sister Sabrina is the founder of the Heart Nest Center for Peace and Healing in Baltimore, Maryland. There, she lovingly serves individuals, couples, other healers, and small groups. Since the summer of 2020, she and her team have hosted Project Big Mama, a multi-sensory event to honor the lost Black matriarch.
She is a proud senior faculty member of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine, where she has taught the art of self-care to leaders around the globe. As Center faculty, she has responded to community-wide trauma, natural disasters, acts of terror, and mass shootings across the United States. In 2018, Dr. Sabrina initiated the Big Mama Scholarship, a fund designed to increase the Center’s presence in underserved African American communities. She, along with two of her colleagues from the Center, co-launched, Embracing Buffalo, to address the aftermath of the May 14, 2022 massacre in East Buffalo.
In 2012, Sabrina N’Diaye became a student of Sidi Muhammad al-Jamal, a healer and peacebuilder from Jerusalem, who blessed her with the name, “Saarah” (the mother of us all). Saarah Sabrina has committed her life to embodying and sharing the sacred Sufi teachings of peace, love, justice, mercy, and freedom.
Dr. Sabrina is a highly respected member of the treatment community, and frequently lectures across the country on oppression, spirituality, stress management, self-care for healers, addictions, and the “magic” of connection. She is passionate about mentoring other mental health professionals in their desire to make a living while serving humanity.
Sabrina N’Diaye is a devoted wife, mother, daughter, and life-long learner, who remains humbled by the healing power of compassion, love, forgiveness, and the reality of imagination.
Big Mama Speaks – Love Lessons from a Harlem River Swan is her first book.