This work is ancestral.
And it’s time
O U R S T O R Y
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.
T H E C O L L E C T I V E
Meet the People
holding this Space
FOUNDER & LEAD PRACTITIONER
Alexmi Polanco, LMHC-D
Alexmi is the founder and visionary of Poder Healing, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Psychospiritual Mentor, and healer devoted to bridging evidence-based mental health care with soul-rooted healing.
Her work is rooted in the understanding that our lives are shaped not only by our personal experiences, but also by our families, communities, histories, and ancestral lineages. She believes that meaningful healing happens when we honor the whole person and address the emotional, cultural, spiritual, and systemic forces that influence our well-being. Through this integrative approach, Poder Healing helps it’s community reconnect with themselves & each other, reclaim their power, and create lasting liberation.
Adriano Casimiro
Mental Health Counselor-LP
Ivelisse Dyson
Mental Health Counselor-LP
Mirtha Brea
Mental Health Counselor-LP
Katerina Rojas
Mental Health Counselor-Intern
O U R F R A M E W O R K
We are a liberation-centered healing collective
This is not a one-size-fits-all space. It never was.
01
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.
02
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.
03
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.
04
Community as Medicine
Healing is not a solitary act. Many of the wounds we carry were created through community, systems, culture, and generations of isolation. They deserve to be healed in community, too. That is why we create spaces where people can be seen, supported, and transformed together.
05
Empowerment Through Knowing
We equip our clients with the understanding and tools to continue their healing long after our sessions end. Our goal is not to create dependency. It is to help cultivate a regulated nervous system, deepen self-trust, and empower each person to keep becoming who they are meant to be.
06
You Are a Sacred Being
We refuse to reduce any person to a diagnosis, a symptom, or a problem to be solved. We believe you arrived here whole, even if life has buried parts of who you are. Our work is to help you remember your wholeness, embody it, and live from that place every day.
Two Pillars,
One Integrated Path
Our work lives at the intersection of evidence-based clinical care and ancestral, spiritual wisdom. Neither is secondary. Both are necessary, yet optional.
PILLAR ONE
Integrative Mental Health
Our clinicians provide trauma-informed, culturally responsive mental health care that honors you as a whole human being, not a collection of symptoms. We integrate evidence-based therapeutic approaches with a decolonizing lens, recognizing the ways culture, identity, history, and lived experience shape the healing process.
Trauma-informed therapy that explores and heals the root causes, not just the symptoms.
Culturally responsive care where your identity, experiences, and values are understood without explanation.
An understanding of systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma, and the ways they become embedded in the nervous system.
Coaching, education, and practical tools that help you build lasting change beyond the therapy room.
PILLAR TWO
Ancestral & Spiritual Integration
We come from people who knew the language of the land, the rhythm of the stars, and the medicine found in silence. Our spiritual practitioners & Coach help you reconnect with that wisdom and reclaim what generations of colonization attempted to disconnect. This work is an invitation to remember who you have always been and to bring that wisdom into your everyday life.
Soul healing, energy work, and intuitive spiritual guidance.
Past life regression and ancestral healing to explore inherited patterns and deepen self-understanding.
Crystal Reiki, sound healing, and other energy-based practices that support balance and restoration.
Practical integration that bridges spiritual insight with grounded, embodied living.
W H O T H I S I S F O R
Built for Bipoc &
Allied people ready to come home
If you are ready to break free from inherited patterns, reclaim your power, and embark on a transformative healing journey, Poder Healing is a place where you can be fully seen, supported, and restored.
This work has always been bigger than any one person. When you heal, your lineage heals. Your children inherit something different. Your relationships transform. Your community benefits. The cycle shifts. That is the power of healing rooted in intention and community.
Whether you identify as Bipoc, or as an ally committed to equity and collective liberation, you are welcome here. We invite you to join us in rewriting the story of wellness, one that honors our ancestors, acknowledges our lived experiences, and celebrates our resilience, wisdom, and innate capacity to heal.
