Amar Therapy

Amar Therapy Viridiana Rodriguez, LCSW
Creating space for self-love
Latina therapist
Accepting new clients!

Today I gave birth to a drum. What a powerful experience from stretching the skin to shaping and lacing every piece toge...
06/08/2026

Today I gave birth to a drum.

What a powerful experience from stretching the skin to shaping and lacing every piece together. It required patience, presence, and a surprising amount of strength. Every step deepened my respect for this ancient instrument and the traditions that have carried its medicine across generations.

The drum is one of humanity’s oldest instruments, used for thousands of years by cultures around the world in ceremony, celebration, communication, and healing. Its steady rhythm mirrors the heartbeat the first sound we hear in the womb and can help bring the nervous system into a state of regulation, grounding, and connection.

The vibrations of the drum are felt not only through the ears, but throughout the body, inviting us back into rhythm with ourselves, each other, and the Earth.

There is something deeply powerful about sitting with a drum you have made with your own hands. 🥹

Thank you to for having us and helping us in this process!

I am so grateful for this experience and excited to begin sharing this drum’s voice in circles, individual healing sessions, and especially at our Women’s Retreat this August here in Mexico.🇲🇽

May its rhythm call us home to ourselves. 🥁

Your Latina Therapist & Healer,

Viridiana Rodriguez

The retreat may last 4 days. The impact can last a lifetime when you have the support to integrate it. 💛Most retreats en...
06/02/2026

The retreat may last 4 days. The impact can last a lifetime when you have the support to integrate it. 💛

Most retreats end when you go home. But healing doesn’t.

One of the biggest misconceptions about personal growth is that transformation happens during the retreat itself. While breakthroughs are powerful, the real work begins when you return home and start applying what you’ve learned to your everyday life.

That’s why Sacred Heart: The Exhale Retreat includes a post-retreat virtual integration group call.

Because we know that after a deep healing experience, new insights emerge. Emotions surface. Your body may begin communicating in new ways. Relationships may feel different. You may start recognizing what no longer aligns.

And you shouldn’t have to navigate that alone.

Our integration call provides a supportive space to process your experience, understand what’s unfolding, and create sustainable next steps so your healing can continue long after the retreat ends.

This is what makes Sacred Heart more than a retreat.
It’s an investment in lasting transformation.

❤️ August 7–10, 2026
🌿 Riviera Maya, Mexico
✨ Integration support included
❤️ Only 4 shared-room spots remain

*Two month payment plans available.

Comment “EXHALE” or send a DM to learn more.

I love a new month energy feeling and it’s six months into the year! I often take a step back and give myself space for ...
06/01/2026

I love a new month energy feeling and it’s six months into the year! I often take a step back and give myself space for reflection, release and self connection.

I know many women are realizing how much they’ve been carrying because I witness it in therapy sessions. I want to offer a space in community for a mid-year nervous system reset.

The Soft Reset is an intimate in-person gathering created for women craving rest, reflection, connection, and nervous system restoration before burnout becomes the norm again.

Through guided breath-work, somatic tools, reflective journaling, and intentional community, this experience offers space to pause, soften, and reconnect with yourself in the presence of other women.

This is not about fixing yourself. It’s about giving your body permission to exhale.

Join us for an evening of grounding, reflection, and collective care as we gently reset for the second half of the year.

🤲🏼Sunday, June 14 | 5:30–7:00 PM
📍In Person | Orange, CA
👯‍♀️Limited spots available.

LINK in BIO to reserve your spot ✨

Your Latina Therapist & Healer,
Viridiana Rodriguez

You know exactly why you struggle.You’ve connected the dots.
You’ve made sense of your childhood.
You’ve talked through ...
05/31/2026

You know exactly why you struggle.
You’ve connected the dots.
You’ve made sense of your childhood.
You’ve talked through the trauma.
You’ve developed awareness.

And yet...

Your body still tenses.
Your anxiety still shows up.

You still find yourself people-pleasing, overthinking, shutting down, or feeling emotionally overwhelmed.

This is something many people discover after years of therapy:

Understanding your wounds is not always the same as healing them.
Trauma isn’t only stored in memories. It can also be held within the nervous system, showing up long after the experience has passed.

That’s why healing often requires more than insight alone. It may require helping the body process what it’s still carrying.

EMDR therapy can help bridge that gap between knowing and healing. ❤️‍🩹

If you’ve ever thought,
“I know where this comes from, so why am I still struggling?”
You’re not alone.
Healing isn’t about having more insight.

Sometimes it’s about helping your nervous system finally feel safe enough to let go.

✨ You deserve support that reaches both the mind and the body.

Reach out to us Amar Therapy Inc. is accepting new clients!

📍In-person in Orange, CA
💻 Telehealth throughout CA
📞 714-900-2657

Your Latinas Therapist,
Viridiana & Melissa

Healing looks different when the land beneath you feels familiar in your bones. For Norma and I, Mexico is not just a de...
05/25/2026

Healing looks different when the land beneath you feels familiar in your bones.

For Norma and I, Mexico is not just a destination it is a place we return to when we need to reset. Not only mentally, but within our bodies. A place where our roots remind us of who we are underneath everything life has asked them to carry.

That connection is woven into every part of Sacred Heart: The Exhale Retreat. The land, the ceremonies, the water, the stillness… every detail chosen with intention because the environment your nervous system heals in matters deeply.

This is more than a getaway. It is a return to yourself. 🤲🏼

August 7–10 · Riviera Maya, Mexico🇲🇽

Only 4 shared room spots remain and are ideal for two friends, primas, sisters, or women who feel called to experience this together.

This shared room includes a queen bed + one single bed. 🛏️

Once these final shared spaces are filled, enrollment for the retreat closes. If your body has been craving rest, connection, and a space to finally exhale… this is your sign to stop waiting. ✨

Reserve your spot through the link in bio before it sells out. Give yourself this space to reset in nature 🌿

Your Latina Therapist & Healing Guide,
Viridiana Rodriguez

Yesterday was a full circle moment for me.I had the honor of being invited by one of my former students to celebrate suc...
05/22/2026

Yesterday was a full circle moment for me.

I had the honor of being invited by one of my former students to celebrate such a meaningful milestone. I taught at California State University, Los Angeles for two years, and the last cohort I taught is now graduating this year. Watching students I once knew as first-year MSW students walk across that stage as Master of Social Work professionals filled me with so much pride.

What made the day even more emotional was realizing that I was sitting in the exact same theater where I graduated from University of Southern California in 2013. To return years later as a professor, supporting and showing up for her students, felt incredibly sacred.

I was invited by another Latina, and being there for her felt like I was also showing up for the younger version of myself the 25-year-old me who once crossed that same stage carrying doubt, fear, and hope all at once.

As someone who struggled academically and was once told by a professor that I was not “grad school material,” yesterday felt deeply healing. It reminded me that our stories do not end where someone else places limitations on us.

This field calls all of us for a reason. And one thing I always shared with my students is this: representation matters, to be the change you want to see in this world and your own healing matters too. The work we do on ourselves is just as important as the work we do for others after graduate school.

To my students I am so proud of you. Thank you for reminding me why this work matters so much. 😭

Congratulations Class of 2026 🎓👏🏼

P.S Last picture is Me in 2013 🥰

Professor Rodriguez 🫶🏼

There is something no one talks about in the narrative of the strong woman. How hard it is to receive.🥹 To let someone e...
05/19/2026

There is something no one talks about in the narrative of the strong woman.

How hard it is to receive.🥹

To let someone else carry something for you. To ask for help without immediately feeling like a burden. To be in a room and actually let yourself be held instead of being the one doing the holding.

If you have spent your whole life being the one others lean on… receiving can feel foreign. Uncomfortable. Even unsafe. But your nervous system was never meant to do this alone.

Sacred Heart: The Exhale Retreat is a space designed specifically for the woman who has mastered giving and is ready to finally practice receiving.

Four days to soften. To be held. To exhale. 😮‍💨

August 7–10 · Riviera Maya, Mexico 5 spots remaining in shared rooms.

Visit the link in bio to give yourself permission to receive. 🌹

Your Latina Therapist & Healer,
Viridiana Rodriguez

This is for the woman who has spent her whole life being needed…and is just now beginning to realize she has needs too.I...
05/16/2026

This is for the woman who has spent her whole life being needed…and is just now beginning to realize she has needs too.

It was built for the woman who has been holding it together since she was old enough to understand that someone had to. The one who learned early that her needs came last… and has been living that way ever since.

If you grew up as the strong one, the responsible one, the one everyone leaned on your nervous system has been working overtime for a very long time.

Sacred Heart: The Exhale Retreat is four days in Riviera Maya, Mexico designed specifically for you. To rest. To release. To remember what it feels like to be held instead of holding.

5 spots remaining in shared rooms. August 7–10
Riviera Maya, Mexico

Visit the link in bio to say yes to yourself. 🤍

I came to Panama thinking I was just checking a box for continued education.But being here reminded me of something deep...
05/11/2026

I came to Panama thinking I was just checking a box for continued education.

But being here reminded me of something deeper…
How easy it is to live in constant output.
To be the strong one.
To care for everyone else…and slowly disconnect from yourself.

This space gave me something I didn’t even realize I was craving: room to feel, to soften, to not be “on.”
And it reaffirmed everything behind why I created

Sacred Heart: The Exhale Retreat.
Because healing doesn’t always happen in survival mode. Sometimes it happens when you finally step away from it.
If you’ve been feeling the weight of always holding it together…this is your invitation to put it down.

August 7–10 · Riviera Maya, Mexico
5 spots left (shared rooms)
Payment plans available.

This isn’t random timing.
Your body knows.

🔗 Link in bio for more details

Your Latina Therapist & Healer,
Viridiana Rodriguez

You’re the daughter who learned to hold everything…and now you’re finally ready to exhale.Some partnerships aren’t plann...
05/04/2026

You’re the daughter who learned to hold everything…
and now you’re finally ready to exhale.

Some partnerships aren’t planned they’re aligned.
Norma and I?
Both Mexicanas. Both therapists.
Both carrying the stories of being the strong ones…the ones who don’t fall apart.

So when I created Sacred Heart: The Exhale Retreat…I didn’t choose her it felt destined.

Because this space?
It’s not surface-level healing.

It’s for the woman who is tired of:
✨being the strong one
✨holding it all together
✨putting herself last
✨and calling that “normal”

Norma brings a kind of grounding you don’t have to question. The kind of space where your body finally realizes…I don’t have to be in survival mode anymore.

August 7–10 · Riviera Maya, Mexico
Only 5 spots left

DM me “EXHALE” to learn more or secure your spot through the link in bio 🤲🏼

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