Dr. Makungu Akinyela, Ph.D.

Dr. Makungu M. Akinyela, is a Marriage and Family therapist and a much sought after scholar / activist consultant on Black family life as well as an Associate Professor in the African American Studies Department at Georgia State University.  He is a co-founder of the Family Center of South DeKalb, a private practice family therapy center where he specializes in couple and relationship therapy. 

Dr. Akinyela is a Clinical member and an Approved Supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and past chairperson of the Metro-Atlanta Chapter of the Georgia Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.  He has presented and lectured at numerous conferences both nationally and internationally in such places as Adelaide, Australia; Durban, South Africa; Toronto, Canada; Vancouver, BC; Montreal, Canada; Manchester, England, Havana, Cuba and Hong Kong.

Dr. Akinyela serves of the editorial advisory boards of the International Journal of Narrative Therapy and Community Work, the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; and the Journal of Systemic Therapy.  Dr. Akinyela has written and published several journal articles, book chapters and commissioned monographs on issues related to Black families, mental health, African Centered family therapy and critical pedagogy.