Making Resilience as Contagious as Trauma

Healing That Meets You Where You Are

 At Centering Wholeness, we transform cultures from the inside out, making resilience as contagious as trauma.

For individuals, our Coming Home to Yourself Protocol™, grounded in EMDR therapy, helps adults navigate trauma, grief, depression, and the complex bonds of mother–daughter relationships.

For organizations, our Ecological Resilience Framework™, Resilience-Informed Practices™, and pioneering Therapist-in-Residence programs bring human-centered strategies into workplaces. We partner with venture capital firms, accelerators, incubators, and healthcare organizations to create cultures where retention, innovation, and well-being thrive, because the most successful organizations are, at their core, the most human.


Healing Beyond the Session

Growth doesn’t stop when therapy ends. Through journals, affirmation cards, and group coaching, we provide tools that help you stay grounded, inspired, and resilient in daily life.

Beyond individual support, Dr. Alice brings her expertise to keynote talks and global workshops on trauma recovery, identity-centered mental health, and workplace resilience—empowering communities and organizations with practical strategies that spark healing, reduce stigma, and inspire lasting action.

Dr. Alice Mills Mai

Dr. Alice is a trauma therapist, resilience researcher, and speaker passionate about creating spaces where healing feels possible. With a PhD focused on resilience and wellness, she combines clinical expertise with lived experience as an African immigrant and advocate for Black communities. Her approach to counseling is holistic and identity-centered, honoring the cultures, systems, and environments that shape mental health.

As Seen In

Stories of Growth & Transformation

  • “Boundaries, Balance, and Breakthroughs”

    I’ve been working with Alice at Centering Wholeness for a few years now and the experience has completely changed my life and had ripple effects on my close friends and family, even on my colleagues. Understanding myself more, my negative beliefs and triggers, and processing a lot of trauma has been hugely beneficial. I've been able to now put in place super clear boundaries, change my thinking patterns and get introduced to new therapy modalities like EMDR. Alice's trauma-informed approach and dual Ghanaian-American cultural heritage are two of the things that made me want to work with her, but she offers so much more. I'm forever grateful for the work we've done together and would recommend her to people who identify as immigrants, BIPOC or LGBTQ+  especially - she is super compassionate, knowledgeable, inclusive and just a very supportive therapist.

  • “An Interpersonal Style That Resonated Deeply”

    I loved the conversational style of this presenter; it was refreshing. She was so interpersonal, which, of course, went along with her topic. Thank you for providing this opportunity.

  • “Specific, Inclusive Insights Made the Difference”

    I would have appreciated having slides or handouts prior to the session. Speaker was well-informed, but took a while to get going, and was not a dynamic speaker. I appreciated inclusion of specifics of considerations, such as the example of a gay black male client.

  • “Informative, Transparent, and Truly Inspiring”

    Wow. Blown away. Alice did an amazing job with this presentation. Informative, non-biased, provided applicable information and interventions for counselors to utilize. Her honesty and transparency was amazing. Thank you for your time!

  • "A Great Presentation That Sparked My Passion to Serve"

    This was such a great presentation! This is actually a population that I have wanted to work with for a long time and as mentioned it is not covered in school at all. Thank you so much!

  • "Practical Insights for Working with Families Impacted by Incarceration"

    The information and content in this presentation was beneficial in the importance of unconditional positive regard and the non-judgmental approach of working with families impacted by incarceration and the individual. I appreciate the details and content of the presentation overall.

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