The Girasol Counseling, PLLC

The Girasol Counseling, PLLC Girasol Counseling is committed to healing practices rooted in liberation, culture, and spirituality.

We have heard/witnessed from BIPOC service providers/politicized healers that they are experiencing/are at the verge of ...
11/14/2025

We have heard/witnessed from BIPOC service providers/politicized healers that they are experiencing/are at the verge of burnout due to rising community needs and the lack of support for their own well-being.

That is why I’ve started the People’s Free Therapy Fund with the support of micro grant. This initiative is providing free, culturally responsive therapy for local BIPOC service providers/ politicized healers. The purpose of The People’s Free Therapy fund is to increase the well-being of historically harmed and excluded communities by caring for the caregivers—ensuring that those who sustain our community’s resilience have access to the healing they need.

If this work speaks to you, please share and encourage people to stay tuned. We’ll be sharing how to support our work soon! *currently full*

Hemos escuchado/presenciado testimonios de profesionales de servicios y sanadores politizados BIPOC que experimentan o están al borde del agotamiento debido a las crecientes necesidades de la comunidad y la falta de apoyo para su propio bienestar.

Por eso creé el Fondo de Terapia Gratis para el Pueblo Con el apoyo de la microbeca de la Fundación . Esta iniciativa ofrece terapia gratuita y cultural me te apropiada para profesionales de servicios y sanadores politizados BIPOC locales. El propósito del Fondo de Terapia Gratuita para la Comunidad es mejorar el bienestar de las comunidades históricamente marginadas y excluidas, apoyando a quienes cuidan, y asegurando que quienes sostienen la resiliencia de nuestra comunidad tengan acceso a la sanación que necesitan.

Si este trabajo te resuena, compártelo e invita a otros a mantenerse al tanto. ¡Pronto compartiremos cómo apoyar nuestro trabajo! *Actualmente lleno*

More pics to come— but, here’s a first! On Thursday, Girasol Counseling was among the 20 organizations that were awarded...
11/08/2025

More pics to come— but, here’s a first! On Thursday, Girasol Counseling was among the 20 organizations that were awarded a community impact microgrant by !

During our meet and mingle, I ran into some Latinas who already knew and followed Girasol. It is such a gift to know that the right people are finding us. Thank you community for uplifting our practice.

Let’s keep healing mi gente 💛🌻✨🙏🏽

ALSO! I got to run into one of my favorite people’s who has supported Girasol since day 1 💛 gracias Roxana 💛 Roxana does a lot of amazing work— she co-founded the first and only Latinx food bank in the country! Learn more and support

¡Más fotos próximamente! Pero, ¡aquí va una primicia! El jueves, Girasol Counseling fue una de las 20 organizaciones que recibieron una microbeca de impacto comunitario de la .

Durante nuestro encuentro, me encontré con algunas latinas que ya conocían y seguían a Girasol. Es una gran alegría saber que las personas adecuadas nos encuentran. Gracias a la comunidad por apoyar nuestra práctica.

Sigamos sanando, mi gente 💛🌻✨🙏🏽

¡Además! Me encontré con una de mis personas favoritas que ha apoyado a Girasol desde el primer día 💛 ¡Gracias, Roxana! 💛 Roxana hace un trabajo increíble: ¡es cofundadora del primer y único banco de alimentos latino del país! Conoce más y apoya a

🌀 if know me closely, you know about my mother wound. You’ve probably experienced me in one of my turns. Healing the mot...
10/31/2025

🌀 if know me closely, you know about my mother wound. You’ve probably experienced me in one of my turns. Healing the mother wound has been a spiral of space and return… sadness, codependency, anger, distance, understanding, boundaries, self love, compassion, anger, sadness, return…

Having gone the ceremony of birthing, I have experienced yet another spiral of healing.

I am grateful that I can hold the duality of deep gratitude and love for myself and my mom, while also holding tenderly my grief for my younger and adult self for what I can give to my children that my mom could not give to me.

If you’re going through your mother wound healing. You’re not alone. It’s such a natural healthy path of adulthood and parenting. There’s also the not so normal and challenging aspects of it when there’s been violence’s abuse and trauma in the mix.

Hold yourself tenderly.

I know now that boundaries are love and it’s okay for me to take space away so that I may return differently and sometimes it’s also okay to not return. Every situation is different.


This is a poem I wrote and preformed in 2022 when I was experiencing another spiral of my healing.

✨Our healing is interconnected and interdependent. May we all find ways to heal together. With love 🙏🏽💛✨Nuestra sanación...
10/25/2025

✨Our healing is interconnected and interdependent. May we all find ways to heal together. With love 🙏🏽💛✨Nuestra sanación está interconectada y es interdependiente. Que todxs encontremos maneras de sanar juntxs. Con amor 🙏🏽💛

Healing is many things! As communal folks, we need to make sure we understand that healing extends outside of (and beyon...
10/25/2025

Healing is many things! As communal folks, we need to make sure we understand that healing extends outside of (and beyond) us. As people committed to liberation work, healing is essential (and a result) of liberation work.

¡Sanar es muchas cosas! Como personas comunitarias, debemos asegurarnos de comprender que la sanación se extiende más allá de nosotros. Como personas comprometidas con el trabajo de liberación, la sanación es esencial (y un resultado) del mismo.

Grateful for  .us  for putting together the Healing Justice Summit where we got to tend to our grief collectively. I am ...
10/20/2025

Grateful for .us for putting together the Healing Justice Summit where we got to tend to our grief collectively.

I am taking with me new rituals and knowledge on how to tend to my beautiful grief, and what’s it’s been protecting.

Many thanks to ancestors, Creator, Mother Earth and all the elements for the medicine of today.

Agradecida con .us por organizar la Cumbre de Justicia Sanadora, donde pudimos atender nuestro duelo colectivamente.

Llevo conmigo nuevos rituales y conocimientos sobre cómo atender mi hermoso duelo y lo que ha estado protegiendo.

Muchas gracias a los ancestros, al Creador, a la Madre Tierra y a todos los elementos por la medicina de hoy.

The knowledge we consume and the knowledge we share can be a tool of oppression or a tool of liberation. 🤔 Ask yourself ...
10/18/2025

The knowledge we consume and the knowledge we share can be a tool of oppression or a tool of liberation.

🤔 Ask yourself what am I consuming in books, podcasts, tv, social media, conversations, friendships, etc… your awareness of choice can also be a radical act towards liberation and collective healing.

Paulo Freire talks about this process of coming into awareness as consciousness or conscientização in his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

💛 I love how Bad Bunny opens up here saying an applause to mom and dad because they really broke [generational oppression]. Be that for your children and future generations. For liberation based parenting follow

El conocimiento que consumimos y compartimos puede ser una herramienta de opresión o de liberación.

🤔Pregúntate qué consumo en libros, podcasts, televisión, redes sociales, conversaciones, amistades, etc. Tu elección también puede ser un acto radical hacia la liberación y la sanación colectiva.

Paulo Freire habla de este proceso de toma de conciencia como consciencia o concientización en su libro Pedagogía del oprimido.

💛 Me encanta cómo Bad Bunny empieza aquí aplaudiendo a mamá y papá porque realmente rompieron [la opresión generacional]. Sé ese para tus hijos y las futuras generaciones. Para una crianza basada en la liberación, sigue a

Does anyone else struggle with this? 🙋🏻‍♀️   can keep us in a people pleasing/   survival   response if not addressed. 🙏...
10/10/2025

Does anyone else struggle with this? 🙋🏻‍♀️

can keep us in a people pleasing/ survival response if not addressed.

🙏🏽 In the process of healing— Give yourself love, compassion, and patience. It is difficult to name and know our needs/feelings when so much of our survival was built around being whomever others needed/wanted us to be. We did this for survival not because we are dishonest or clueless.

🌻 Please know, I am NOT saying that if you people please you don’t actually love your people. What I am saying is- if you avoid/deny your feelings/needs, you are not being loving towards yourself AND you are missing out on the opportunity to be loved by someone else in that moment. If you look deeply into that action you might find fear of rejection, abandonment, humiliation …

💛 If this resonates with you, know that you’re not alone. So many helpers (like me) struggle with this. Healing is possible. It was/is for me and it is for you too.



¿Alguien más lucha con esto? 🙋🏻‍♀️

El puede mantenernos en una respuesta de supervivencia de complacer a los demás/adular a los demás si no se aborda.

🙏🏽 En este proceso de sanación, dense amor, compasión y paciencia. Es difícil identificar y comprender nuestras necesidades/sentimientos cuando gran parte de nuestra supervivencia se basó en ser quienes los demás necesitaban/querían que fuéramos. Hicimos esto por supervivencia, no por ser deshonestos o despistados.

🌻 Por favor, sepan que NO digo que si complacen a los demás, no los amen. Lo que digo es que si evitan/niegan sus sentimientos/necesidades, no se están amando a sí mismos y están perdiendo la oportunidad de ser amados por alguien más en ese momento. Si analizas a fondo esa acción, podrías encontrar miedo al rechazo, al abandono, a la humillación…

💛 Si esto te resuena, debes saber que no estás soles. Muchas personas que ayudan (como yo) luchan con esto. Sanar es posible. Lo fue/es para mí y lo es para ti también.

Muchisimas gracias a Témo with  for delivering an amazing De-Escalation Training! Témo developed this training with and ...
10/08/2025

Muchisimas gracias a Témo with for delivering an amazing De-Escalation Training! Témo developed this training with and while at the University of Washington. Currently he serves as Ryan White Part A Program Manager and
Interim Eastern WA Services Director.

We all left feeling empowered to know how to better address tense situations. These kinds of trainings are especially important and needed during these difficult times. We are immensely grateful for Témo’s knowledge sharing and generosity!

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Muchísimas gracias a Témo de por impartir una increíble capacitación sobre desescalada. Témo desarrolló esta capacitación con y mientras estuvo en la Universidad de Washington. Actualmente se desempeña como Gerente del Programa Ryan White Parte A y Director Interino de Servicios para el Este de Washington.

Todos nos fuimos sintiéndonos empoderados para saber cómo abordar mejor las situaciones tensas. Este tipo de capacitaciones son especialmente importantes y necesarias en estos tiempos difíciles. ¡Estamos inmensamente agradecidos por el conocimiento y la generosidad de Témo!

👀 wait till the last slide. 💕 Thank you to all those who held space for me during this sacred transition. With love,Clau...
10/03/2025

👀 wait till the last slide.

💕 Thank you to all those who held space for me during this sacred transition.

With love,
Claudia

👀 Espera la última diapositiva.

💕 Gracias a todos los que me brindaron espacio durante esta transición sagrada.

Con cariño,
Claudia

As a daughter of immigrants and descendant of survivors of institutionalized violence in El Salvador, my heart has felt ...
09/27/2025

As a daughter of immigrants and descendant of survivors of institutionalized violence in El Salvador, my heart has felt heavy with the news—to say the least. It is easy to feel a sense of despair and forget about the ways we—our community— are making change and resisting.

I am extremely privileged that as politicized healer I write psychosocial immigrations that are centered around justice and care. This role is one of the ways we create a new vision that is inclusive, welcoming, and centered in collective care.

Grateful for the new partnerships we have with organizations doing transformational work to keep immigrant families together.

I encourage you to notice the goodness, even if it’s hard to believe it exists. It does! The fatsh*t (you know what I’m saying lol) 3mpire benefits from your despair. Stay hopeful. Stay joyful. This is how we survive and thrive.

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Como hija de inmigrantes y descendiente de sobrevivientes de la violencia institucionalizada en El Salvador, la noticia me ha pesado mucho, como mínimo. Es fácil sentir desesperación y olvidar cómo nosotros, nuestra comunidad, estamos generando cambios y resistiendo.

Tengo el enorme privilegio de escribir, como sanadora politizada, sobre inmigración psicosocial centrada en la justicia y el cuidado. Este rol es una de las formas en que creamos una nueva visión que sea inclusiva, acogedora y centrada en el cuidado colectivo.

Agradecida por las nuevas alianzas que tenemos con organizaciones que realizan trabajo transformador para mantener unidas a las familias inmigrantes.

Les animo a reconocer la bondad, aunque cueste creer que exista. ¡Existe! El imperi0, el im***il (ya saben a qué me refiero, jajaja), se beneficia de su desesperación. Manténganse esperanzades. Manténganse alegres. Así es como sobrevivimos y prosperamos.

This summer, Leslie and Cynthia attended the Reclaiming Wellness Conference put on by . It was “a transformative experie...
09/05/2025

This summer, Leslie and Cynthia attended the Reclaiming Wellness Conference put on by . It was “a transformative experience dedicated to decolonizing therapy and reclaiming healing on our own terms. Together, we’ll explore culturally rooted practices, challenge colonial frameworks in mental health, and reimagine wellness for our communities. This is more than a conference; it’s a movement toward liberation and healing that honors ancestral wisdom and collective growth.” -taken from the reclaiming wellness conference website

If you’re not following these movement makers, I highly encourage you to.

— Keynote Speaker and author of Decolonizing Therapy

— the founder of this amazing conference among many other radical roles

— my friend and guest speaker on healing money trauma

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