.png)
About KARIMA
KARIMA embodies a fusion of art, therapy, and community. Drawing inspiration from rhythm and ancestry, we weave storytelling, healing relationships, and fostering accessibility. Our essence is earthy, soulful, and poetic, offering a sanctuary where words hold healing powers and movement sparks transformation.
How We Work
Three Movements. One Rhythm.
KARIMA works where art, healing, and access meet.
We move through three connected rhythms — each one a doorway into transformation. Together, these movements create a single pulse — art that heals, therapy that moves, and community that rises.
We turn art into medicine. Through poetry, film, and performance, our stories awaken empathy, reflection, and belonging — reminding us that every voice carries healing power.
We practice therapy as rhythm work. Rooted in culture and science, our sessions help people in relationships, families, and individuals find harmony between the emotional, spiritual, and practical.
We believe healing should be reachable. The Foundation funds free or truly affordable therapy, turning creativity and compassion into tangible impact.
Our Creative Mission
Mission
To restore rhythm to the human story —
helping people, families, and communities reconnect to the pulse of their own healing through story, therapy, and social impact.
We believe that what we voice, we create.
That the stories we tell ourselves shape our bodies, our relationships, and our world.
KARIMA exists to make that healing accessible —
through artistry that inspires, therapy that transforms,
and philanthropy that funds both.
Our mission: to make rhythm a resource.
To help every person find their sound — and live by it.
Vision
A world in rhythm.
A world where healing is cultural, communal, and creative —
where therapy sounds like music, where stories become medicine, and where access to care isn’t a privilege, it’s a pulse.
We imagine a movement that blurs the line between art and wellness —
where therapists, poets, and changemakers move to the same beat:
a collective rhythm of healing, restoration, and liberation.
Our vision: that every voice finds its frequency again.
Values
Rhythm — The heartbeat of everything we do. Healing happens in tempo.
Story — We honor the narratives that shape identity and create change.
Access — Healing belongs to everyone. We fund it, share it, and protect it.
Collaboration — Collective impact is our compass. We move together.
Ancestry & Innovation — We draw from ancient wisdom to build modern systems of care.
Integrity of Soul — We move with intention, depth, and grace — always rooted in truth.
.png)
.png)
The KARIMA Way
KARIMA is more than an organization — it’s a practice.
It’s how we remember that healing isn’t found in perfection, but in pulse.
Every poem, every session, every story we tell carries the same rhythm:
a rhythm that reminds us who we are,
where we come from,
and who we’re still becoming.
KARIMA Collective — A rhythm for healers. A home for change.
Upcoming Events
Spoken-Word Performance: Nonprofit GalaThu, Nov 06UPS _ Wheeler Student Center
Spoken-Word Performance: BNM Holidaze MarketSat, Dec 06Tacoma Armory
Poetry After DarkSat, Dec 27Tacoma Armory