About Rafaelle

I've spent my career asking one question. What helps people heal? I've come at it from the therapy room and from research on social support and therapeutic alliance, and the answer keeps coming back to relationship.

I've worked in hospital behavioral health, wilderness therapy programs, somatic-focused clinics, and clinical research. The same thing kept showing up. People get better in connection, not in isolation, and it's the most consistent finding I've come across.

Therapy should make room for all of it. Your body, your relationships, where you come from, and the systems you've had to live inside. I bring experience and presence to meet that. I'm not going to perform certainty I don't have. I'll get things wrong sometimes, and I want to hear about it when I do, because working through those moments is often where the most durable change happens.

Some of what we do looks different from talk therapy. Working with sensations or feelings in your body, or with the parts of you that want different things at once, can feel unfamiliar and more exposed than talking something through.

Some of what I bring is training and some of it is life experience. I'm Cuban, a heritage Spanish speaker, non-binary transfemme, polyamorous, and neurodivergent.