liberatory care

At Calamansi Counseling, our work is guided by our social justice values and anchored in healing that is liberatory, culturally integrative, and LGBTQIA2S+ affirming. Our practice is located on the ancestral homelands of the Piscataway Conoy Tribe. We are in gratitude to the Indigenous people who have been stewards of these lands for generations before us, and we reckon with what it means to settle upon and occupy stolen lands. Each month, our practice actionably returns wealth to the Piscataway Land Trust in support of Indigenous-led efforts to rematriate ancestral land and sovereignty to the Indigenous peoples of the Chesapeake region and/or the NDN Collective, dedicated to building Indigenous power.

We also redistribute a portion of our capital each month to mutual aid efforts supporting unhoused and low- or no-income individuals and families in Baltimore. We are continually developing awareness of the interconnecting systems that maintain imbalances in power, privilege, and opportunity, and we seek to position our work as healers in pursuit of social justice and collective liberation. We strive to engage with an anti-oppressive lens in both consciousness and embodied practice, intentionally moving toward resisting eurocentrism and americentrism as dominant norms, while acknowledging and working to dismantle the ways these values may be internalized and reproduced in clinical work.

Calamansi Counseling is committed to the dignity, safety, and liberation of all oppressed peoples, including Palestinian, Black, queer, and trans communities. Grounded in anti-oppressive, human rights–oriented care, our work recognizes the mental health impacts of war, displacement, apartheid, occupation, forced migration, intergenerational trauma, and systemic violence, and remains responsive to the effects of political violence and structural harm.