Ntu is a pluralistic approach toward delivering therapeutic services and psycho-educational programs that is framed in an “Africentric” understanding of the world. Ntu is also a multifaceted continually evolving way of conceptualizing human behavior. The Ntu approach treats families by using ancient Eastern principles of healing, New Age conceptualizations of the mind-body relationship, an Africentric worldview, and methodologies that acknowledge and encourage the actualization of the highest expression of human potential.
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