Lisa Ndejuru

Dr Lisa Ndejuru is a psychotherapist, researcher, artist, and community organizer whose work sits at the intersection of healing, culture, and knowledge creation. She is the founder of Omora Healing, a Canadian nonprofit that holds her clinical, research, cultural, and training work across three continents.
She currently serves as Senior KAP Clinician and co-lead on model development at the Ketamine-Assisted Treatment and Research Centre (KTRC) at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda, and as Clinical Director of the Black Healing Centre in Montreal. She is an affiliate faculty researcher at Concordia University, where she was a primary researcher on Community-Centred Knowledges (CCK): Fostering Black Wellness in Montreal, an SSHRC-funded community-university research project.
Her transnational project Waking Our Stories explores wellness, precolonial oral tradition, storytelling, knowledge creation and transmission, identities, research-creation, and future imaginaries. In June 2025, she presented Mort mémoires amour, a sortie de résidence at Théâtre Espace Go drawing on texts from the Rwandan precolonial oral tradition woven into the oral history and performance work of the Seedings Collective.
A skilled practitioner of Playback Theatre and Moreno psychodrama, she co-founded the Montreal-based Living Histories Ensemble and has experimented extensively with storytelling, play, and improvised theatre. Her dissertation, Oral History and Performance in the Aftermath of Organized Violence: An Epistemological Contribution, won the Concordia University Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Prize in the social sciences.
Born in Rwanda, she has served the Rwandan diaspora in North America for more than 25 years as an organizer, researcher, and activist. Her work is focused on individual and collective meaning-making and empowerment for Black communities in the aftermath of large-scale political violence and the dislocations of our lives.
She holds a PhD from Concordia University, is a licensed psychotherapist (Ordre des psychologues du Québec), and holds certifications in Moreno psychodrama and third-party neutral conflict resolution. She is the 2023 recipient of the AMI-Québec Ella Amir Award for Innovations in Mental Health and was recognized by CBC as a Black Changemaker.