Behind every reel is a real person.
Social media shows fragments. Behind the Reels creates space for the emotions, pressure, family stories, identity questions, and healing journeys behind those fragments.
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Behind the Reels exists for the stories people hide behind being fine.
We are building a youth-led mental health community for Africans through storytelling, dialogues, and outreaches.
Storytelling, dialogues, outreaches.
The website turns the Instagram movement into a deeper home for stories, practical resources, partner work, and community action.
Team
The people behind the movement.
Keren Agbonika
Founder
Keren Agbonika is a psychologist, keynote speaker, and mental health workshop facilitator who designs psychosocial interventions for young people, with a focus on young women. She provides counselling services, conducts independent research on human behaviour, and applies monitoring and evaluation frameworks to mental health programmes. Keren works at the intersection of psychology, storytelling, and youth engagement, using language and lived-experience narrative to open conversations that culture too often closes.