Palabra Counseling & Training Center, LLC

10/21/2025

Need more spirituality in your psychotherapy practice? Please join PESI's 2-Day conference where I have the honor to present.

2-Day Spirituality in Psychotherapy Virtual Conference: Clinically Grounded Tools for Working with Faith, Meaning, Identity, and the Sacred

10/17/2025

La Niña

Una niña camina asustada por estas líneas.
El día es una bolsa amniótica que cuelga de sus ojos.
Veo la oscuridad bajo su párpado inferior,
En la precaria voluntad de los sin nombres
el progreso se encostra como un caldo insípido,
baja impertérrito por la espalda seca de la cordillera.

10/12/2025

Now, more than ever, we must remember Kimberlé Crenshaw's call to action:

Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms...

10/10/2025

So happy to return to PESI's Summit this coming December:

10/10/2025

“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead, patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.”
― bell hooks

02/18/2025

mindfulness # healing #

01/15/2025

Un verdadero honor y privilegio conversar con Damcho, para la comunidad Dharmadatta, sobre la psicología budista y el pensamiento indígena.

Acompaña a Damcho en esta profunda y enriquecedora conversación con la Dra. Marianela Medrano, una destacada poeta, psicóloga y maestra budista afro-taína. J...

01/15/2025

mindfulness # healing #