Blanca is a licensed mental health clinician who has worked extensively with children, adults, and families for over 25 years in a variety of roles and settings. Blanca’s work focuses on the treatment of trauma, grief and loss, and generational/intergenerational trauma. Though the application of restorative processes, healing circles, and mindfulness, Blanca is committed to the healing of communities of color. Blanca is engaged in several organizations and causes that are committed to decriminalization, decolonization, and freedom of communities of color: As a member of Latinx Therapist Action Network, a national organization of Latinx therapists committed to honoring and affirming the human dignity of Latinx immigrants in ICE detention. Blanca’s work in the Network has centered around education and support to front line workers/community activists in the migrant’s rights movement. Has co-created webinars to educate and support about impact of mental health to frontline workers and the implications of Intergenerational trauma in BIPOC communities. Blanca served as a trainer and Board President of Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition; an organization that supports indigenous and communities of color, to prevent and address domestic and sexual violence, through training, education and use of Transformative Circle process.
Along with other healers of color in Boston, Blanca is a member of the Stinging Nettle Brujxs Healing Collective; a group committed to the liberation and healing justice of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, POC communities, and supporting allies. Several times a year the collective offers skill-shares, workshops, pop-up clinics, community events, herbal walks, conferences, and retreats to co-create spaces for medicine to transcend into wellness-some that are BIPOC exclusive.