Andrea Cole
Andrea Cole is the founder of Honor Your Presence, PLLC where she serves as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Yoga Instructor, and Reiki Practitioner. From Greensboro, NC, she received her Bachelor of Art in Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill and received her Master’s in Social Work from UNC-Charlotte. Andrea is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), licensed in the state of North Carolina. She is a 500-hour Certified Yoga Instructor (CYT-500) and completed both 200 and 300-hour yoga teacher trainings with I AM YOGA, under the teachings of Kiesha Battles and Candace Jennings. As a Reiki Practitioner, Andrea serves through the Kemetic tradition of Ra Sekhi Kemetic Reiki, founded by Rekhit Kajara Nebthet.
Within her holistic clinical practice of Honor Your Presence, PLLC, Andrea specializes in Black wellness and provides accessibility to healing services through communal presence, financial bartering, and community service. Andrea currently studies the interconnection between holistic health and Black women’s wellness, the space in which she’s a ruthless advocate. As a healer, nurturer, confidant, forever-learner and space-holder, Andrea utilizes evidence-based and natural modalities, as well as lived-experience, to teach community members how to heal individually and collectively.