02/24/2026
Come with me as a private practice owner facilitating a leadership training under Azalea Coast Counseling.
This weekend, I was invited by Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice to facilitate portions of their leadership training cohort in Montgomery, Alabama, following an immersion experience at The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the The National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
Hard history and current history activate emotion. That is expected — and it should be respected.
After the immersion, I facilitated a structured, trauma-informed debrief centered on psychological safety, grief processing, and constructive anger regulation within leadership spaces.
The following day, we delivered Your Pause Is Power — Tu Pausa Es Poder — a bilingual presentation focused on anger literacy, emotional regulation, and the power of intentional pause in personal and organizational leadership.
Spaces that engage complex history and social justice education require more than inspiration.
They require structure.
They require containment.
They require trauma-informed facilitation.
I want to extend a sincere thank you to the staff of ACIJ for making this leadership cohort possible.
A special thank you to Yolanda Carreras — for inviting me to collaborate on this portion of the curriculum, for taking the time to meet with me, answer my questions, and align me with ACIJ’s mission, and for presenting alongside me in Spanish while I presented in English. Your collaboration and support were instrumental to this experience.
Thank you to Mr. Steve at Sambri Designs embroidering my shirt so I could represent Azalea Coast Counseling with intention.
And thank you to the cohort for being such a thoughtful and engaged group of leaders.
