Raven brings more than a decade of clinical expertise, ancestral wisdom, and lived Indigenous experience to the work of nervous system healing. She creates environments where children, adults, and whole communities can regulate, remember, and return to themselves — moving beyond survival patterns and toward safety, connection, and belonging.
At the Jambalaya Center she sits on the Igbimo Ijinle as Oludari of Egbe Ogun Aiye — carrying the aspect of Ogun that clears paths through the world.
Raven is Indigenous and neurodivergent, and both are foundational to her practice. Her work is guided by Indigenous elders and teachers, and it is grounded in the belief that difference is never a deficit — that every nervous system holds wisdom, and that the paths of healing must honor how bodies have actually adapted to survive.
Her Egbe at the Jambalaya Center is Egbe Ogun Aiye — Ogun of the world. Ogun is the Orisha of iron, tool-making, path-clearing, and the sovereign work of cutting through what obstructs. In Raven's work — clearing trauma patterns from bodies, opening space in schools and systems that pathologize difference, forging new possibilities for the neurodivergent and the traumatized — Ogun's craft is already the daily practice. The Center's role formalizes what her nervous system was already carrying.
Raven is a licensed occupational therapist (OTR/L) with over ten years of clinical experience. She is a certified Brainspotting practitioner, trained in the Safe & Sound Protocol, and works from a polyvagal-informed, sensory-integration foundation.
Her integrative approach weaves together holistic occupational therapy, brain-based trauma modalities, sound-based nervous system regulation, and Indigenous ways of knowing — bridging clinical science with ancestral wisdom. This makes her one of the rare practitioners whose work moves fluently between the research literature and the ritual room.
Her practice supports three populations: adults working through stored stress, chronic pain, burnout, and disconnection; children and families navigating pediatric OT, IEP advocacy, and school systems; and organizations building trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming environments from the inside out.
Raven is the founder of Building Pathways Transformation Center, based in the East Bay Area of California and practicing on the ancestral lands of the Ohlone people. The practice offers neuroaffirming, trauma-informed care for individuals, families, and the schools and agencies that shape their environments.
The three service streams — Adults: Nervous System Support, Families: Pediatric OT & Advocacy, and Agencies & Schools: Consultation & Training — are threaded together by a single conviction: that the nervous system is where change begins, that healing happens in relationship rather than isolation, and that transformation opens the moment someone starts building a new pathway.
At the Jambalaya Center of Ancient Mysteries & Sacred Arts, Raven sits on the Igbimo Ijinle — the Inner Council that stewards the sacred and institutional life of the Center alongside Chief Iyanifa Yeye Luisah Teish, Shylah Hamilton-Touré, and Iya Sobande Greer.
As Oludari of Egbe Ogun Aiye she holds the Center's work with Ogun in his aspect as the clearer of paths — the sovereign of tools, of the forge, of every action that cuts through what would otherwise obstruct sacred movement. In practice: the trauma-informed protocols that make it possible for participants to arrive in ceremony safely; the systems work that clears the path for the Center to function as a nervous-system-safe institution; and the framework work that translates ancestral wisdom into modalities the coming generations can meet.
Raven describes her work as guided by a single mission that threads through every population she serves and every modality she practices: transforming lives, one nervous system at a time. Every session, every consultation, every training, every ceremony she supports at the Ile is in service to that same premise.
“When one nervous system finds safety, entire communities shift.”
— Jamie “Raven” McGill
Raven's clinical and consultation practice lives at Building Pathways Transformation Center, serving the East Bay Area and remote clients across California.
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