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Phoenix Rising Centers

We break barriers in mental health care for BIPOC, QTPoC, and LGBTQIA2S+ communities.

Through trauma-informed, anti-racist, and culturally rooted practices, we empower healing, growth, and resilience while confronting systemic inequities.

02/24/2026

I think a lot of us want community but were never shown what it actually takes to keep one going. So when things get hard, we assume it’s failing instead of realizing we were never taught the skills.

02/18/2026

Delilah Milagros Santos-Kane offers trauma-informed therapy for people navigating stress, identity, transitions, and lived experiences shaped by systems and history. Her work centers care, collaboration, and respect for the ways people have learned to survive.

Now accepting new clients in Rhode Island and online.

02/17/2026

Religious trauma forms in places where care is conditional and belonging can be withdrawn. It grows in systems that sort people into who is protected, who is corrected, and who is treated as expendable. Naming that harm is not a rejection of faith. It is a way of telling the truth about what was done and what should have never been required for someone to be loved.

02/10/2026

There’s a common myth that healing from religious harm means leaving religion entirely.

For many people, that framing is inaccurate and damaging.

01/28/2026

“Trauma-informed” at work becomes real when it changes process design, support pathways, and how escalation functions under pressure.

This is the lens behind Inclusive Minds, Thriving Workplace. Link in bio.

01/26/2026

Policies play an important role in organizational life.

They are most effective when paired with support structures that allow people to navigate complexity without fear or overcorrection.

Inclusive Minds, Thriving Workplace works with HR and People teams to strengthen these supporting systems, so policy does not become the only tool available when people challenges arise.

Want to learn more about Inclusive Minds, Thriving Workplace? Link in bio.

01/20/2026

Risk is not reduced by watching people more closely.

It is reduced when organizations create support structures that people feel safe using before issues escalate.

Inclusive Minds, Thriving Workplace works with HR and People teams to design support pathways that are practical, humane, and appropriate to real workplace constraints.

Want to learn more about Inclusive Minds, Thriving Workplace? Link in bio.

11/10/2025

What if healing in s*x therapy begins with asking who taught us to be ashamed of wanting, and who benefits when we rush past our own pace?

We sit with what the body remembers. Numbness, pulling away, going quiet. Not problems to erase, but signals with a story.

We look at desire alongside power. Purity rules, gender policing, medical authority, and survival strategies that kept people safe. Context changes the meaning.

Consent becomes something we build from the inside. Choice grows when urgency softens and language is allowed to be imperfect.

Accountability stays with all of us. We name the power in the room, listen more than we label, and let belonging be the measure of progress.

11/04/2025

Many of us were taught that recovery means getting back to 'normal' - whatever that means.

But often it begins with learning to stay present without abandoning yourself again.

Abolition-aligned care asks a different question:

Not, "How do I change fast enough to be acceptable?"

But, "What would become possible if I did not have to abandon myself to feel safe?"

Our approach tries to honor the intelligence in your survival responses and the history that shaped them. You do not need to hurry or justify how you learned to cope.

09/01/2025

Many of the words we use to signal inclusion are shaped by histories we rarely name, histories of empire, racial categorisation, and colonial systems that marked whose lives were worth naming in the first place. Terms like “ethnic food,” “diverse candidates,” or “non-white” might seem harmless or even progressive, but they often reinforce whiteness as the unspoken norm.

It's important to ask:

"Whose reality is being centered here?"

"Who is being described from the outside in?"

If we want to build truly inclusive communities, we need to move beyond performative swaps and toward a deeper commitment to naming with care, complexity, and intention.

08/28/2025

We’re proud to help amplify the 2025 Trans Health Survey by , a vital effort to improve and advocate for affirming healthcare for trans communities.

🏳️‍⚧️ For trans people. By trans people.
⌛ 25 minutes of your time.
🔒 Completely confidential.

Your voice can shape the future of trans healthcare. Take the survey today and share it forward.

Take the survey now! Link in bio!

08/26/2025

Collective healing isn’t new.

It didn’t begin in therapy offices or self-help circles. For generations, communities have turned toward each other to grieve, remember, and survive. Long before formal psychology, healing happened in rituals, stories, mutual aid, and song.

But even cultural practices come with histories of exclusion.

This post explores what it means to honor the past without romanticizing it, and how collective healing can be reimagined, led by those who have long been left out.

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Providence, RI
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+14014415834

Website

https://www.phoenixrisingcenters.org/

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