Bio
Rebecca Rogerson, aka Gogo Nomadlozi, M.A. (she/her), is an anti-oppression-based healer, counsellor, author and folk herbalist.
She trained in Soweto, South Africa as a Traditional South African Healer/Sangoma with Gogo J. Skosana, then in Gaborone, Botswana, with Rra Sebape, and was accepted as family by Ntate Drake Koka, Gauteng, and Cree Elder Vern Harper in so-called Canada.
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She has a deep respect for the spiritual and cultural heritage these teachings are rooted in and endeavours to carry the medicine in a good way, and to be responsible, respectful, accountable, reciprocal and interrelational.
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​​Rebecca was an international consultant specializing in HIV and AIDS and traditional healing in Southern Africa at community-based, medical, and national policy levels for over a decade.
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She has presented at various juried conferences worldwide and has earned international recognition for her work as a practitioner.
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Rebecca has contributed to various academic, public, and private sector publications and has authored multiple editions of the tertiary-level textbook HDEV (2017, 2021, 2024 & 2027), as well as published social-justice-informed poems.
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Rebecca taught in the Social Service Worker Program at Seneca College in Toronto for almost a decade. She has an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a thesis focus on Bungoma healing practices as a decolonization praxis.
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During her time at York University, Rebecca was a sole participant and co-author of a neuroscientific paper on changes in brain chemistry during a perceived trance.
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Rebecca lives with a disability and maintains her private practice on the tmxÊ·úlaÊ”xÊ· of the unceded Sinixt in so-called British Columbia, where she is establishing a liberatory healing space centring the care, support and healing needs of local and international BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+ folks and People of The Global Majority.
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She returns to South Africa as often as she can to visit family and offer consultations at a reduced/free cost, as well as to collect herbal medicine. She provides remote consultations for people all over the world.
(Picture from Makhosi Elliot Ndlovu's homestead, KZN, South Africa 2001).
