AS WE ARE, LLC
A Care-Centered Creative Ecosystem
AS WE ARE is a human-centered creative, therapeutic, and strategic well-being organization addressing disconnection, stress, overwhelm, and the complexities of the human experience at both the individual and systems level. We build spaces where people can feel, connect, and make meaning. We partner with organizations to ensure those spaces where people are holistically well are not the exception, but the standard. Our work lives at the intersection of care, creativity, and structure. Not as separate offerings, but as a connected practice.
OUR STRUCTURE
AS WE ARE: Community Care
Direct service. Human to human.
Creative, therapeutic, and relational spaces designed for individuals and communities navigating stress, isolation, and systemic impact. These offerings center access, dignity, and culturally responsive care.
Empathic Creative Consultancy (ECC)
Systems work. Organization to people.
A strategy and facilitation practice that helps organizations design environments rooted in care, connection, and sustainable human engagement.
Meet
Our Team
Our Founder
Imani Shanklin Roberts, MS, MPS, ATR
Program Development & Community Support
Debbie Ola
My therapeutic coaching practice weaves together my background in art therapy, psychotherapy, and liberatory healing practices to support individuals navigating life’s complexities. I work with clients experiencing anxiety, depression, stress, relationship challenges, transitions, and questions of identity and meaning.This coaching practice is an integrative and collaborative process focused on growth, clarity, and resilience. I use creative practices, reflective dialogue, and holistic strategies to help clients deepen their self-awareness, expand their coping tools, and live with greater alignment.
Debbie is a warm and dedicated presence behind the scenes of As We Are, supporting the growth of the organization’s wellness programming with a special focus on group art therapy and maternal wellness offerings. With a background in public health and operations, she loves helping build the structure that lets these programs thrive, from shaping program frameworks and crafting outreach materials to organizing day to day workflows and helping form the partnerships that keep the work growing. At the heart of it all, she is driven by a belief in creating spaces where healing and community can flourish.
OFFERINGS
From 50 US dollars
"I appreciated the way the facilitator set the tone for the therapeutic container. Participating in this experience gave me the space to explore myself and think deeper about how I share space with others."
"...we are all vulnerable and we all are capable of producing valuable forms of expression to share."
"I am so thankful for this experience. I'm more vulnerable and more empathetic and I've become a more loving and soft person and have noticed the improvement in my current relationships."
"Thank you Imani for your authentic and warm facilitators embrace. You were a model for me in many ways and I'm very grateful that had were able to cross paths. Your display of vulnerability and service is something I will continue to meditate on in the future. Ase'."
AS WE ARE OPEN ART MAKING GROUP
A monthly donation based community offering.
As We Are is an open financially accessible art-making group with a therapeutic intention that gives BIPOC individuals an opportunity to be a community while engaging in art therapy interventions in a therapeutically held safe space. Hosted by Art Therapist Imani Shanklin Roberts, this open group will be an opportunity to establish a deeper sense of awareness, build inner and group harmony, and ultimately move toward individual and collective healing. Using a variety of mediums, participants will utilize creative pathways to externalize, transgress, and transmute issues related to stress, isolation, fear, anxiety, safety, love, and so much more within communion with others.