About Our Practice…

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Our Mission

The Space and Advocacy Project™ creates intentional spaces for people to deepen self-understanding, reconnect with their bodies, strengthen their voice, and exercise greater agency in their lives.

Through Mind • Body • Systems, we honor the whole person and the relationships, communities, cultures, healthcare experiences, and systems that shape how we live and heal.

Understand the mind. Honor the body. Navigate and transform systems.

Meet Tamina

  • Tamina A. Dixon-Pinkney, LMSW, LGSW, RN, CCM, MCPC (she/her)

    Founder & Integrative Practitioner

    Greetings, I am Tamina.

    I have always been drawn to spaces that make room for people to connect, heal, explore, rest, and become more fully themselves. In 2020, I founded The Space and Advocacy Project™ (S&A) from that vision. What began as an intentional space centering the well-being of Black and BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people navigating trauma and toxic stress has evolved alongside me into an interdisciplinary practice grounded in mind, body, and systems.

    My philosophy resists reducing human experiences to symptoms, diagnoses, or problems to be fixed. I believe in the fullness of our humanity and honor the wisdom people carry about their own lives. My work is relational, trauma-informed, pro-Black, LGBTQ+ affirming, and decolonial. Self-determination, dignity, and agency are central to my practice.

    S&A is my legacy project—a place where the many threads of my personal and professional life come together through Psychology-Informed Coaching, Embodied Healing, Healthcare Empowerment, and Clinical Consulting.

    I am a Licensed Social Worker, Psychotherapist, Registered Nurse, Certified Case Manager, Master-Certified Professional Coach, and Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Facilitator. I bring more than 20 years of healthcare experience across Nursing, Behavioral Health, Case Management, Healthcare Systems, Clinical Leadership, Patient Advocacy, and Quality Improvement. This interdisciplinary background shapes how I understand people within the bodies, relationships, communities, cultures, healthcare environments, and larger systems that influence their lives.

    My education includes graduate degrees in Social Work from Howard University and Health Services Leadership and Management from the University of Maryland School of Nursing, along with undergraduate degrees in Nursing and Global Business and Public Policy. My additional training spans coaching, trauma-informed and somatic practice, Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), health advocacy, case management, healthcare quality, and clinical leadership.

    And there is a life behind all those credentials.

    I live in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area with my wonderful wife, whose love grounds and affirms me, and my two amazing daughters, whose existence brings me immeasurable joy. I’m also the proud dog mom of a sassy mini Goldendoodle who keeps us all entertained. I belong to a tribe of siblings who encourage me to dream while keeping me humble, and a sisterhood whose voices, wisdom, and care helped shape the spirit of S&A.

    I love reading, writing, creating in the kitchen, practicing yoga, being with the people I love, and making room for joy.

    The Space and Advocacy Project™ is where all of these parts meet.

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Community Love Letter 

Dear Us,

I believe in the fullness of who we are.

We are more than what we have survived, more than what has happened to us, and more than the systems that have attempted to define, contain, or diminish us.

There is wisdom in our minds, knowledge in our bodies, strength in our relationships, and possibility in our capacity to choose. 

Our healing can include tending to wounds, but it can also be about discovery, pleasure, creativity, rest, connection, curiosity, joy, and becoming more deeply acquainted with ourselves.

We deserve spaces where our identities do not require explanation, where our humanity is not reduced to struggle, and where our lived experience is recognized as a source of knowledge.

We can question what we have inherited. We can decide what we want to carry forward. We can advocate for ourselves, care for one another, reconnect with our bodies, create new possibilities, and define well-being on our own terms.

We do not have to organize our lives around survival.

We can make room for wholeness.

We can make room for joy.

We can make room for ourselves.

To live fully, freely, and meaningfully is not something we must earn.

It is our birthright.

In Deep Gratitude,
Tamina

“ Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”

— Maya Angelou