Kalila Borghini

Kalila Borghini's non-linear career path spans more than 40 years. She began her journey at Queens College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics in 1969.

Her education continued at the CUNY Graduate Center from which she received a Master's Degree in Classics in 1976. While teaching at various colleges in the New York City metro area, she pursued a Doctorate at New York University.

For the next five years, she worked as the Administrator of the Center of Sports Medicine at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopaedic Institute. In addition to being responsible for community relations and marketing, she created a unique training program for students interested in Sports Medicine.

In 1985, after having made many contacts in the health field,  Ms. Borghini launched her business as a health care consultant. For the next 12 years, she became an award-winning copywriter, a trainer, a training materials developer, a fund raising consultant, a grant writer and a non-profit management specialist. Her clients included some of the largest and most prestigious nonprofit agencies and health care organizations in the country including the American Cancer Society, Unicef, the Greater New York Hospital Association and Beth Israel Medical Center, among many others.

In the mid-1990s, at the urging of her psychoanalyst and mentor Dr. Stephen Ohayon, Ms. Borghini enrolled in New York University's Silver School of Social Work, with the goal of becoming a psychotherapist. She graduated with a Masters in Social Work and shortly thereafter became an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) in New York State.

She launched her private practice in the late 1990s while pursuing advanced training. She holds a certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the New York Counseling and Guidance Center and a certificate in Object Relations Theory and Clinical Applications for Advanced Clinicians from The Object Relations Institute.

In April, 2001 Ms. Borghini was initiated in the Yoruba/Lucumi tradition as a Priest of Obatala by Barbara Bey (Ibaye). She received Obe (Knife) from Antonio Sanchez in April, 2007. That same year, Ms. Borghini obtained a Certificate of Ordination as a Yoruba/Lucumi Priest through Omo Orisa Ile Oshun, Inc. in Philadelphia, PA.  The Certificate of Ordination gives her the legal right to perform various clergy-related duties such as non-denominational marriages, funerals and naming ceremonies as well as Yoruba rituals and other activities.

In her private psychotherapy practice, Ms. Borghini is known for the diversity of her clients, her sense of humor and her interactive style.