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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.

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.

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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.

08/24/2025

Standing with Sudan and Congo is how we honour the truth that no one is free until all are free.

08/13/2025

We cannot separate our work as therapists from the reality of genocide.

What is happening in Gaza is not conflict. It is systemic violence, collective trauma, and an assault on our shared humanity.

Many of our clients come to us every week carrying grief, rage, and fear. This moment asks us to speak, act, and stand alongside those whose lives and dignity are under attack.

Silence does not protect neutrality. It protects the status quo. Our liberation as therapists, clients, and communities is connected. Trauma-informed care must also be genocide-informed. 🇵🇸🍉

08/04/2025

Many autistic adults burn out not because they are weak, but because they have spent years masking to survive. Especially in communities where traits are misread, diagnosis is delayed and support comes late.

07/30/2025

What if healing is not about fixing the body, but about listening to it?
For many marginalized communities, trauma is not just personal. It is political, historical, and ongoing.

This post explores how collective healing asks us to honor the body’s wisdom, resist pathologizing survival, and reshape the conditions that harm.

07/28/2025

Immigrant mental health is not an individual crisis. It is a systemic failure shaped by fear, exclusion, and unmet care.

Distress is rising. Services are inaccessible. But healing is still possible through culture, language, and community.

We need more than access. We need safety, dignity, and care rooted in solidarity.

07/23/2025

Who gets to rest without consequence?

Who gets to say, “I need space,” and be heard, without losing safety, housing, or belonging?

Rest has always been political. It reflects who’s expected to hold the weight of the world, and who’s allowed to set it down.

When we talk about care, we have to talk about power.
And when we talk about rest, we have to name who’s never been given the chance to stop.

07/21/2025

You don’t have to like everyone you organize with.

Movements are not built on personal compatibility. They are built on shared purpose, accountability, and collective refusal of harm. Staying in the work means learning to hold tension without collapsing into silence or self-erasure.
Let’s stop confusing harmony with justice.

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Providence, RI
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+14014415834

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https://www.phoenixrisingcenters.org/

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