Before You Love Again: Heal The Emotion. Honor the Value. Break The Pattern. - Paperback

Sankofa, Leon: - Leon Sankofa, PhD, LCSW, is a psychotherapist, author, clinical educator, and behavioral health entrepreneur whose work focuses on helping individuals understand the emotional patterns that shape their relationships, choices, and lives. With nearly two decades of experience in behavioral health, Dr. Sankofa has worked extensively with individuals, couples, families, and professionals navigating trauma, anxiety, relationship difficulties, emotional distress, and major life transitions.He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Certified Hypnotherapist, hypnosis instructor, and Board-Certified Clinical Sexologist with advanced training and experience in trauma-focused and transformational approaches to psychotherapy. His clinical work integrates insights from trauma treatment, emotional processing, relationship therapy, hypnosis, and other evidence-informed approaches to human change.Dr. Sankofa is the founder of Parallel Behavioral Health, where he has provided clinical leadership and therapeutic services while developing innovative approaches for helping people create meaningful and lasting emotional change. His years working directly with clients led him to examine a recurring question: Why do intelligent, successful, and self-aware people continue repeating relationship patterns they consciously want to change?That question became an important foundation for his work on emotional values-the deeply held internal priorities people develop around emotionally significant experiences. His writing explores how experiences involving rejection, abandonment, betrayal, acceptance, belonging, safety, and love can influence what people protect and how those protective patterns may later appear in intimate relationships.In Before You Love Again: Heal the Emotion. Honor the Value. Break the Pattern., Dr. Sankofa translates lessons developed from years in the therapist's chair into an accessible guide for people recovering from past relationships, preparing to love again, or seeking to strengthen and reset an existing relationship.His central message is both practical and hopeful: healthier relationships begin not simply with finding the right person, but with understanding what we carry into love.Dr. Sankofa continues to write, teach, develop clinical models, and advocate for deeper approaches to emotional healing and healthier relationships.