O U R S T O R Y

This work is ancestral.

And it’s time

Poder Healing was created because the mental health system, as it exists, was never designed with our wholeness in mind. We chose a different path.

Guided by Spirit ✦

Grounded in remembering ✦

Mind. Body. Soul. Lineage. ✦

Mental health meets soul work ✦

Liberation is the practice ✦

Rooted in ancestral truth ✦

Guided by Spirit ✦ Grounded in remembering ✦ Mind. Body. Soul. Lineage. ✦ Mental health meets soul work ✦ Liberation is the practice ✦ Rooted in ancestral truth ✦

W H Y W E E X I S T

The system wasn’t built for our wholeness

For too long, wellness and healing have been filtered through a colonial lens: one that pathologizes our survival responses, dismisses our spiritual knowing, and asks us to separate our pain from its source.

It told us healing was individual, clinical, and quiet. It asked us to show up without our lineage, without our grief, without the full weight of what we carry as Black, Brown and marginalized people navigating systems that were built at our expense.

"We recognized that true healing can only occur when we reclaim our heritage, honor our ancestors, and understand the patterns that were handed to us long before we arrived."

Poder Healing was born from that recognition, and from a commitment to building something different. A space where the clinical and the sacred are not separate. Where your diagnosis does not define you. Where your lineage is an asset, not a liability.

O U R F R A M E W O R K

We are a liberation-centered healing collective

A gathering of clinicians, spiritual practitioners, and guides who believe healing requires tending to the whole person: mind, body, soul, lineage, and the systems that shaped you.

This is not a one-size-fits-all space. It never was.

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Ancestral Wisdom

Our ancestors held knowledge that colonization tried to erase. We center that wisdom, not as supplementary to healing, but as foundational to it. Your lineage is a source of power, not just pain.

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Holistic Integration

True wellness cannot be separated into parts. We hold the mind, body, and spirit together, bringing clinical rigor and spiritual depth into the same container, for the same person, at the same time.

Decolonizing &
Ancestral
Framework

As people of color and children of immigrants, we recognize the impact that colonization & capitalism has had on our lineages and communities.

Utilizing a decolonizing framework supports you in getting to the root of your symptoms, patterns and behaviors. We understand that healing can occur when you are reconnected to all your parts and not left as fragmented pieces. You begin to thrive when you are treated as a sacred being and connected to your sacred roots.

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Decolonized Practice

We understand that many of the wounds our clients carry were created by systems, not by personal failure. Our practice names those systems honestly and works toward liberation from them, not just management of symptoms.