Healing

Justice

Clear the Path.

Reclaim Your Course.

Counseling for Liberation: Healing Conversations Rooted in Social Justice

Healing

Justice

Clear the Path.

Reclaim Your Course.

Counseling for Liberation: Healing Conversations Rooted in Social Justice

Specializing in

BIPOC,
LGBTQIA+
and

immigrants

Specializing in

BIPOC,
LGBTQIA+
and

immigrants

10+ years

of experience

10+ years

of experience
Sessions available in

English,

Spanish and

Portuguese

Sessions available in

English,

Spanish and

Portuguese

Cultivating care in a world marked by disconnection and systemic violence

Cultivating care in a world marked by disconnection and systemic violence

Cultivating care in a world marked by disconnection and systemic violence

A social justice–oriented approach to therapy that examines how oppression and historical forces shape our lives while fostering creativity, courage, and life-affirming ways of being.

ABOUT

It’s possible to find your way toward a more vibrant and connected life.

We come into the world with a profound capacity to love and to connect. Over time, adversity can wound us and pull us away from ourselves and from the world around us. But there is still a path toward our inherently open, aware, and creative nature.

Honoring Your Nature and Roots
Naming Wounds and Oppression
Releasing Pain and Tension
Building New Paths

Affirming your inherent goodness, intelligence, significance, and power, and the ancestral strength that permeates your story.

Grieving neglect, exploitation, and abuse while actively challenging beliefs that fuel insecurity, sadness, fear, and anger.

Making room for deeper emotional expression by focusing on the wisdom of the body, breath, and movement.

Expanding choices, resources, and relationships to cultivate a more flexible, engaged, human way of living.

ABOUT

It’s possible to find your way toward a more vibrant and connected life.

We come into the world with a profound capacity to love and to connect. Over time, adversity can wound us and pull us away from ourselves and from the world around us. But there is still a path toward our inherently open, aware, and creative nature.

Honoring Your Nature and Roots
Naming Wounds and Oppression
Releasing Pain and Tension
Building New Paths

Affirming your inherent goodness, intelligence, significance, and power, and the ancestral strength that permeates your story.

Grieving neglect, exploitation, and abuse while actively challenging beliefs that fuel insecurity, sadness, fear, and anger.

Making room for deeper emotional expression by focusing on the wisdom of the body, breath, and movement.

Expanding choices, resources, and relationships to cultivate a more flexible, engaged, human way of living.

ABOUT

It’s possible to find your way toward a more vibrant and connected life.

We come into the world with a profound capacity to love and to connect. Over time, adversity can wound us and pull us away from ourselves and from the world around us. But there is still a path toward our inherently open, aware, and creative nature.

Honoring Your Nature and Roots
Naming Wounds and Oppression
Releasing Pain and Tension
Building New Paths

Affirming your inherent goodness, intelligence, significance, and power, and the ancestral strength that permeates your story.

Grieving neglect, exploitation, and abuse while actively challenging beliefs that fuel insecurity, sadness, fear, and anger.

Making room for deeper emotional expression by focusing on the wisdom of the body, breath, and movement.

Expanding choices, resources, and relationships to cultivate a more flexible, engaged, human way of living.

WHAT WE OFFER

Our Services

Sharing our stories and feelings is central to reclaiming our humanness and deepening our care for one another. We are guided in this process by laughter, lightness, and a deep appreciation for life.

Individual Therapy

One-on-one support incorporating attentive listening, appreciation, and expressive practices to expand choice and sustain meaningful change.

Individual Therapy

One-on-one support incorporating attentive listening, appreciation, and expressive practices to expand choice and sustain meaningful change.

Individual Therapy

One-on-one support incorporating attentive listening, appreciation, and expressive practices to expand choice and sustain meaningful change.

Support Groups

Facilitated gatherings centered on shared experiences for people who want to build interpersonal connections, share their stories, and navigate challenges together.

Support Groups

Facilitated gatherings centered on shared experiences for people who want to build interpersonal connections, share their stories, and navigate challenges together.

Support Groups

Facilitated gatherings centered on shared experiences for people who want to build interpersonal connections, share their stories, and navigate challenges together.

Workshop Facilitation

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion workshops that combine a social justice perspective with participatory and relationship-building activities to strengthen teams and communities.

Workshop Facilitation

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion workshops that combine a social justice perspective with participatory and relationship-building activities to strengthen teams and communities.

Workshop Facilitation

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion workshops that combine a social justice perspective with participatory and relationship-building activities to strengthen teams and communities.

WHAT SETS US APART

An approach shaped by interdisciplinary training, an intercultural perspective, and lived experience.

01
Historical and Social Awareness

Your struggles extend beyond individual and family challenges. We explore how culture, language, ancestry, structural inequality, and oppression shape your mental health.

Historical and Social Awareness

Your struggles extend beyond individual and family challenges. We explore how culture, language, ancestry, structural inequality, and oppression shape your mental health.

02
Somatic and Emotional Liberation

Healing does not happen in the mind alone. Expressive practices build a deeper relationship with the body and catalyze lasting change.

Somatic and Emotional Liberation

Healing does not happen in the mind alone. Expressive practices build a deeper relationship with the body and catalyze lasting change.

03
A Regenerative, Connective Lens

Your existence is not defined by suffering. Our strengths-based framework nurtures enjoyment, wonder, and discovery.

A Regenerative, Connective Lens

Your existence is not defined by suffering. Our strengths-based framework nurtures enjoyment, wonder, and discovery.

WHAT SETS US APART

An approach shaped by interdisciplinary training, an intercultural perspective, and lived experience.

Historical and Social Awareness

Your struggles extend beyond individual and family challenges. We explore how culture, language, ancestry, structural inequality, and oppression shape your mental health.

Somatic and Emotional Liberation

Healing does not happen in the mind alone. Expressive practices build a deeper relationship with the body and catalyze lasting change.

A Regenerative, Connective Lens

Your existence is not defined by suffering. Our strengths-based framework nurtures enjoyment, wonder, and discovery.

  • Meaning

  • Appreciation

  • Belonging

"Healing is not only about less pain, but more life."

The loss and suppression of our histories and identities often leaves behind hopelessness and anguish that can be difficult to name or make sense of. Part of our emotional, intellectual, and physical healing involves reclaiming these identities, histories, and bonds, and with them, our sense of belonging, power, and hope.

Affirmative therapeutic space

You don’t have to face everything alone.

At Confluência, you can find the care to reconnect with yourself and the world around you.

Affirmative therapeutic space

You don't have to face it all alone.

At Confluência, you will find professional care to reconnect with your life and the world around you.