Arches Healing and Growth

12/24/2025

The holidays don’t feel the same for everyone.🤍💛❄️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤🤎❄️
For many in the LGBTQ+ community, this season can bring up grief, distance, and longing,especially when family relationships feel complicated or unavailable.
If you’re navigating the holidays alone,
🤍you’re not broken.
💛You’re human.
This reflection is part of a collaboration between Project Rainbow Utah × Arches Healing & Growth, where community conversation meets therapeutic care. Together, we’re creating space for honest, grounded reflections that honor lived experience while holding it with gentleness.
You don’t have to do the holidays the “right” way.
You get to do them your way. 🤍
-Joselyn Romero, LCSW (they/she)
🌈 Held with care. Rooted in community.💫

12/23/2025

💛You don’t need to be ready.
💛You don’t need the right words.
💛You don’t need to explain yourself.
This Adult Trans & Non-Binary Support Group exists to offer what so many spaces don’t:
✨ safety
✨ consent
✨ low pressure
✨ real community
Come as you are, quietly, curiously, tenderly, joyfully.When we say all parts of you are welcome, we truly mean it.
🗓 Weekly on Wednesdays | 5–6 PM
💻 Virtual 💕link to register in bio
&
🗓 First Wednesday of each month
📍 FREE & in-person

Facilitated with care by CJ (they/them), CSW
at Arches Healing and Growth.

12/16/2025

Some hills aren’t up for debate.
These are a few truths Sneha stands by as a BIPOC therapist, grounded in trauma-informed care, accountability, and context.

Healing isn’t about “fixing” yourself.
It’s about understanding what shaped you, naming harm (personal and systemic), and creating space for repair. ✨🫂✨

✨ Therapy tools matter, and so does the world we’re surviving in.
✨ Your voice belongs in the room.

If this resonates, you don’t have to navigate it alone.
💛Care that honors your lived experience starts here.
Discover Arches Healing team and purpose.💛
Link in Bio.

12/13/2025

The holidays aren’t always joyful and that doesn’t mean you’re doing them wrong.
For many of us, this season brings more than celebration. 💫
🫂It can bring grief, tension, pressure, and a lot of expectations about how we’re “supposed” to feel.
In this reflection, CJ Michalec, CSW, invites us to slow down, notice what’s happening in our bodies, and practice self-compassion, not to fix or push through, but to be present with what’s real.
Across cultures, traditions, and celebrations, one thing remains true:
✨ You deserve care, gentleness, and support.
📖 Read the full blog Navigating the Holidays - link in bio.
💛 And if this season feels heavy, you don’t have to carry it alone.

11/27/2025

💛If today feels warm and connected, beautiful.
💛If it feels tender or overwhelming, you’re not alone. 🫂
Make space for the version of you who needs care, not what others expect 🌈💫
Wishing YOU softness today. 🙏🏽

11/25/2025

The holidays can be joyful and they can also be overwhelming. 🫥🤗
If this season feels heavy, I want you to remember: 👉🏽you’re allowed to protect your peace.✨
You’re not alone, and nothing is “wrong” with you for needing space, boundaries, or gentler connection.
🌵You’re allowed to decide how long you stay.
🌵You’re allowed to redirect conversations that don’t feel good.
🌵You’re allowed to step outside, take a breath, or leave early.
🌵You’re allowed to choose what supports your peace, even when others don’t understand.
💛
And if you need words to lean on, borrow mine.
💛
You deserve to feel safe, grounded, and held this season.
With care,
Joselyn.
💌🪻💛

11/19/2025

Salt Lake City is moving with intention this week, people showing up for trans safety, joy, and liberation. When community rises, healing feels possible. 💛🏳️‍⚧️
At Arches, we know advocacy isn’t just loud moments t’s the quiet ones too. Sitting together. Being witnessed. Feeling less alone. 🫂✨
Our Trans & Gender Diverse Group Therapy is here for that. 🧍🧍‍♀️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️
A space to exhale, connect, and be held in community. ⬇️
Wednesdays, 5–6 PM
Virtual 💻💕
Your visibility matters. Your healing matters.

Explore Group Therapy → archeshealing.com/group-therapy

11/14/2025

Health care is a right, not a privilege.
And when care is affirming, trans lives thrive. 🌈🙌🏽✨
Today we’re honoring the truth that trans bodies are sacred not because of how they look, but because of the people who live in them. There’s no single way to be trans. No single timeline. No “before” or “after.” Only you, in your power and autonomy.
At Arches, we hold space for the whole you 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈your body story, your mental health, your identity. And it’s beautiful to remember there are community clinics like UAF Legacy Health offering affirming primary care, HRT support, and sexual health services for our LGBTQIA+ community here in Utah.
Your mind and body deserve care that sees you, hears you, and honors you.
You are sacred. You belong.
Your care should reflect that.
💛 Find care that sees you 💛

11/13/2025

AWARENESS is care. 💛
This week, we honor trans lives past and present creating space for reflection, compassion, and collective healing.🏳️‍⚧️💖
Stay tuned 🏹each day, we’ll share ways to connect, learn, and take action in honor of our trans community. 🫶🏼

11/11/2025

Between social gatherings, shifting light, and the quiet grief of change it’s okay to need grounding.💫
Calm doesn’t mean silence.
It means returning to yourself again and again, even when the world feels loud.📢💥
🌿 Come back to your grounding. 🧘Come back to YOU! 🫂
+Wellness

09/30/2025

I am so proud of my heritage and it was incredibly empowering to reflect back on my ancestors and family lineage as we enter Hispanic heritage month. Thank you to Lisette at the Utah Pride Center for your support and for sharing my story!

Meet Joselyn Romero (they/them)! They are the owner of Arches Healing and Growth, where they provide affirming mental health care for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. As a therapist, they are committed to breaking cycles of silence and creating spaces of healing, resilience, and authenticity. Outside of work, they stay grounded through cooking, music, and spending time with their two cats.

When asked, how have your family history, cultural traditions, or ancestral roots shaped your identity or path, especially as an LGBTQ+ Latinx/Hispanic the transgender Ecuadorian from New York City said, ""My family history and cultural traditions as a Latinx person have shaped both the challenges and the strengths of my identity. Growing up, I often felt the tension between traditional expectations and my own truth as a Transgeder person. Family values like loyalty, community, and resilience were deeply instilled in me, but so were rigid gender roles and ideas about what love and family should look like. That conflict pushed me to do a lot of inner work and learn how to honor my roots while also creating space for authenticity.

Cooking has always been one of the ways I connect back to my roots and to my ancestors - like the smell of rice and lentils simmering. Food has always been a bridge for me even when words were hard to find, sharing a meal was a way to show love and care. As a Trans person, cooking has become a way to create my chosen family, to gather people around a table, and to carry forward the parts of my culture that nourish rather than wound.

Ecuadorian traditions, like honoring my ancestors and family lineage and holding on to joy even in times of struggle, have taught me to move through the world with resilience. At the same time, my queerness has challenged me to reimagine what family and love can look like, to break cycles of silence, and to live authentically. My path is both an honoring and a rewriting: I carry my ancestors’ strength, but I also create new traditions rooted in being open, healing, and owning my truth.

09/11/2025

You are not alone.