Journey Forward Wellness

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Journey Forward Wellness Hi, I’m Sheli. As a bilingual therapist and BIPOC advocate, I provide care that honors culture, language, and lived experience. Healing is possible.

Journey Forward offers Coaching, Somatic Therapy, and EMDR Intensives for professional women who are stuck, and ready to find relief from anxiety, burnout, adhd, and old patterns. My practice is grounded in cultural humility and body-based healing. I created this practice for people like you—people who are holding a lot, quietly. Professionals, caregivers, helpers. People who show up for others, even when they’re struggling themselves. My team is here to help you slow down, breathe, and come back into your body. We use somatic practices, EMDR, and mind-body techniques to help you heal from the root—not just cope. And you don’t have to do it alone.

Today is National Latina Day.I’m wearing Taíno-inspired pieces — the symbols of the Indigenous people of the Caribbean, ...
08/21/2026

Today is National Latina Day.

I’m wearing Taíno-inspired pieces — the symbols of the Indigenous people of the Caribbean, the ones history books tried to file away as extinct.

I think about that a lot in this work.

So much of what I see in my clients isn’t a disorder. It’s inheritance. The nervous system of a woman who learned early that her job was to “aguantar” — to endure, quietly, and not make it anyone else’s problem. Who is capable and competent and exhausted, and who feels so much shame even reading a sentence like this one.

Your body has been running a survival program that was handed to you. It worked. It kept your family going.

And it is costing you something now.

Somatic therapy is how we let the body finish the sentence it never got to finish. Not by talking you out of it — by working with the nervous system directly, so rest stops feeling like failure.

To the Latinas holding everything together today: this is your reminder that you are allowed to be a person, not a service.

Get out of your head. Into your body.

Xoxo
-Sheli

08/17/2026

Here to support you and your Frenemies. Just saying.

Sooo…which frenemy do you want to send our way?

Somatic Therapy & EMDR, Intensives, and Coaching in Tampa bay in person, and virtual therapy in Florida, New York, and Washington.

What if your nervous system also practiced hope?What if relief became familiar?What if support found you?What if rest di...
07/16/2026

What if your nervous system also practiced hope?

What if relief became familiar?

What if support found you?

What if rest didn’t have to be earned?

You don’t have to force yourself to believe every possibility.

Just be willing to leave the door cracked open.

Which “what if” do you need today?

07/03/2026

POV: You refuse to wait for the perfect hair day to hire the right therapist. 😂

So… we’re hiring.

Reminder to myself:

Don’t wait until everything is perfect.

We’re growing!!!

I’m looking for a licensed EMDR therapist who believes healing happens through relationship, curiosity, and nervous system-informed care.

If you’re looking for a collaborative practice where growth matters more than perfection, I’d love to connect.

📍Hybrid in Brandon, FL + Telehealth

EMDR training required

Couples experience is a bonus.

Apply through Indeed (or DM me if you’d like to learn more).

05/23/2026

More on how we celebrated awareness month with sound healing and an intro to sound bowls from

05/11/2026

MH awareness month

05/11/2026

Try this now.

05/08/2026

Sound Bath & Tutorial from for Mental Health Awareness Month + Meditation Awareness Month!

Giving back to our practitioners to fill their cups! Because our Healers, Providers, and Healthcare workers are at the highest risk of burnout.

Hoping to bring a taste of Sound Healing to our clients at Journey Forward ~ Somatic Therapy and partner with Pro’s like Deanna for more in depth healing journeys ❤️

More from Deanna: A sound bath is a deeply relaxing, meditative experience where you’ll be “bathed” in sound waves from instruments like crystal singing bowls, chimes, and gongs. There’s nothing you need to do - simply lie down, get comfortable, and allow the sounds to support your nervous system, guiding you into a state of rest, restoration, and gentle awareness. Some people feel deeply relaxed, others notice subtle sensations, imagery, or emotional release - every experience is unique.

Eight 8️⃣ things I whisper to the UNIVERSE as a Somatic Therapist.We experience life thru our bodies. Ie sensations we c...
04/22/2026

Eight 8️⃣ things I whisper to the UNIVERSE as a Somatic Therapist.

We experience life thru our bodies. Ie sensations we correlate with satisfaction, frustration and the like.

So when I was recently manifesting on my therapy couch, considering my own bad-assery and that of my clients...

These phrases became my mantras.
We know words have power, but when we FEEL into them they transform into an embodied power.

A felt sense of a new reality, a new experience.

If one of these hit different, that’s your nervous system telling you something.

If ‘co-regulate with me’ made you curious — that’s literally what we do. Link in bio.

Rooting for you,
-Sheli

04/20/2026

Not every wellness practice is about “calming down”. Side note… please don’t ever say those words to a woman. Back to this: Sometimes MY body needs to be activated — lifted, energized, shaken loose! 😛 Red light therapy with full-body vibration is one of the tools I use to start my day or get out of a funk.

Truthfully…THIS is what somatic care actually looks like outside the therapy room. Shhh….Healing happens everywhere.

20% happens in the therapy room, 80% outside of it.

So how are You carrying what you glean in therapy into your everyday life? maybe it’s not red light, maybe it’s a pause, maybe it’s literally shaking it off.

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1218 Millennium Parkway, Ste 218
Brandon, FL
33511

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 2pm

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