Founder & CEO: 

Willishia Johnson​

Willishia Johnson, a native of South-Central Los Angeles, is the founder of Beautiful Butterfly Community Corp, also known as Beautiful Butterfly. Beautiful Butterfly Community Corp is a nonprofit mental health organization that focuses on helping individuals and families heal from trauma, addiction and mental illness, while also supporting their personal growth. 

Willishia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that has served individuals in underserved communities for over 15 years in multiple roles. Willishia has experience working with individuals of all ages and prides herself on being a well rounded therapist and a resource for her community.  Not only does Willishia provide the community with therapeutic services to assist clients with healing and growth but her organization also hosts community events with partnering agencies to provide families with a safe and healthy place to interact with one another in a healthy manner.

Willishia also supports individuals with creating financial stability by providing program development and consulting for individuals that wish to start their own business. Willishia believes that anyone that wants to have a Beautiful life can, but they must be willing to make healthier choices to do so. 

Our Board of Directors 

Mark Tyler II
​Co-Founder / Chief Financial Officer

Mark Tyler II better known as Anthony, is an Image Consultant and Entrepreneur, with a passion for improving relationship dynamics between men and women. Anthony has over 20 years of experience working in client centered companies in a variety of roles from laborer to dispatch to management. Throughout his personal life and professional career Anthony found himself mediating many conversations where there was a lack of understanding between individuals. Through these conversations Anthony began to see a divide between the way men and women communicate. Anthony’s passion for improving the dynamics between men and women has led him to perform extensive research on gender roles, family dynamics, parental influence on relationship dynamics and many other topics regarding the dynamics between men and women across different cultures. Over the years Anthony has found himself facilitating many group conversations amongst men and women discussing the relationship dynamics and healthy ways to improve them. 
 
Anthony believes the relationship dynamics between a man and a woman set the tone for their home and that everyone has the ability to create a healthy relationship that supports a healthy home. 

Nakuma Henderson, LMFT
Vice President

Nakuma Henderson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been counseling, facilitating and advising people through therapy since 2011. Her passion and enthusiasm in serving the mental health needs of all communities have helped guide her life’s work as a healer.
Nakuma utilizes a client centered multi model approach when working with clients. Nakuma specializes in working with children, adolescents, adults, and families experiencing stressors related to trauma, depression, anxiety, and self-esteem issues. Additionally, Nakuma works with families to help assist in creating strategies and developing new skills to assist with alleviating communication barriers. Nakuma began her career in mental health working with children and families in the foster care system with extensive trauma-related stressors. Nakuma has extensive training and experience in trauma and PTSD. Nakuma also has experience helping clients through crisis situations, including depression and suicidal ideation.
Nakuma has a passion as well for teaching and guiding pre-licensed mental health clinicians as a clinical supervisor. Her years of experience working in community mental health agencies helping LA County’s most vulnerable community members provides support, empathy, and extensive knowledge when guiding other therapists. 
 

Khiana Thomas, LPCC
Secretary

Khiana Thomas is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. Khiana holds a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Walden University. During her 7 years of post-graduate experience, she worked with adults, young adults, and teens who have experienced psychosis, depression, anxiety, PTSD, or sexual abuse. In her work she provided in-home services to families, worked in the community and many other settings to support her clients.
 
Throughout the years Khiana has practiced in many settings including outpatient, high schools, and Universities. In these settings Khiana provided anger management, cognitive behavioral therapy, and play therapy. As a clinical counselor, Khiana has facilitated individual and group therapy, provided case management, crisis de-escalation and have been able to provide support to many children, young adults, at-risk youth, and adults experiencing mental illness and homelessness of mild to moderate severity. 
 
Khiana believes every person no matter age, gender or sexual orientation deserves a chance to have support when it comes to their mental health.

Jerrell Lowery
Director of Community Outreach and Engagement

Jerrell Lowery is a Los Angeles native who has more than 20 years’ experience providing staging, marketing and promoting for all types of events. Jerrell has worked with musicians, artists, DJ’s and planners to provide people with a memorable experience. Jerrell specializes in personal events such as weddings, and parties, as well as corporate events such as holiday parties, and employee outings. Jerrell has extensive experience in organizing and promoting both intimate and large scale concerts and events, throughout Los Angeles County and the surrounding counties.
 
Jerrell takes pride in providing people with an amazing experience they will never forget.