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Phoenix Rising Centers provides trauma-informed, identity-affirming therapy across Virginia for LGBTQIA2S+, trans, neurodivergent, disabled, immigrant, Black and Brown communities.

09/01/2026

𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚, 𝐰𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞! 💚

Phoenix Rising Centers is proud to announce the opening of our 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌-𝒂𝒏𝒅-𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝑵𝒆𝒘,𝑽𝑨

We’re excited to introduce the clinicians leading our Virginia team:

✨ 𝑲𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒔 (𝑺𝒉𝒆/𝑯𝒆𝒓)
Specializing in relational therapy, LGBTQIA+ care, couples & families, religious trauma, and maternal mental health.

✨ 𝑨𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝑪. 𝑺𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒓 (𝑯𝒆/𝑯𝒊𝒎)
Specializing in trans-centered therapy, neurodivergent adults, LGBTQIA+ care, identity exploration, and life transitions.

𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 Both Katrina and Aaron are currently accepting new clients out of pocket while their insurance credentialing processes are underway. Aaron is already credentialed with 𝐀𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚, and we’ll share additional insurance panels as they become available.

𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞: www.phoenixrisingcenters.org/client-eligibility-form
📍 700 Tech Center Pkwy, Suite 200-150, Newport News, VA
📞 (757) 765-210

Whether you’re seeking support for yourself, your relationships, identity, or life transitions, Phoenix Rising Centers is here to provide affirming, compassionate, and trauma-informed care. 💛

🌱 A new space for healing. A new chapter for PRC. Welcome to Virginia!

08/28/2026

𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐑𝐂 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧!

We’re excited to welcome 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒚𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 Spencer Payton Shanks to the 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐏𝐑𝐂) team!

As an MSW Intern, Spencer is dedicated to expanding their education, gaining meaningful hands-on experience, and growing as a compassionate social work professional. Their passion for learning and commitment to personal and professional growth make them a wonderful addition to the PRC family.

We’re excited to support Spencer throughout this journey and can’t wait to see the positive impact they’ll make along the way!

Welcome to PRC, Spencer! We’re so glad to have you here!

08/27/2026

𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐑𝐂 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧!

Please join us in welcoming 𝑺𝒐𝒉𝒊𝒍 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒉 to 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 (𝐏𝐑𝐂) team!

We’re excited to welcome Sohil as an intern and bring his fresh perspective, enthusiasm, and dedication to our team. We look forward to supporting his professional growth while giving him opportunities to learn, contribute, and make a meaningful impact.

Welcome to PRC, Sohil! We’re so glad to have you with us and can’t wait to see all that you accomplish!

07/14/2026

Some of the most important forms of care were never written in textbooks.

They were passed from hand to hand, kitchen to kitchen, and relationship to relationship.

Community cookbooks remind us that knowledge doesn't only live in institutions or professional expertise. It also lives in recipes, rituals, stories, and the everyday ways people have learned to care for one another across generations.

What kinds of wisdom were you taught around a kitchen table, at a family gathering, or in your community that still shape how you care for yourself or others today? 💚

07/10/2026

One thing I've noticed in mission-driven organizations is that people learn culture less from policies than from what they see around them.

They notice who gets trusted with more responsibility, who gets recognized, and who is willing to absorb the extra work when resources are stretched thin.

Over time, sacrifice can become woven into the definition of commitment. Not through formal expectations, but through repetition. The behaviours that keep an organization functioning during difficult seasons often become the behaviours people feel they should emulate.

A question I often ask leaders is:
What does someone have to give up here to be considered successful?

The answer usually reveals more about culture than any mission statement.

07/06/2026

We often imagine knowledge flowing in one direction: from institutions to communities.

But history tells a different story.

Long before many people could find themselves in textbooks, research, or healthcare systems, communities were documenting their own lives, sharing what worked, and leaving maps for those who came after them.

Zines remind us that lived experience is also a form of knowledge, and that care has always been something people create together.

What are some of the communities, books, zines, forums, or people that helped you feel a little less alone?

07/03/2026

College is more than classes and grades. It's also identity, relationships, independence, stress, and figuring out where you belong.

Join The Summer Between, a 6-week virtual therapy group for undergraduate students (ages 18–25), designed to support you through the realities of college life in a space where you don't have to navigate it alone.

Registration is now open!

07/02/2026

Disability Pride Month is often understood as a celebration of identity. It is also an invitation to rethink the assumptions many of us inherit about independence, productivity, and whose needs are allowed to shape the world around us.

Disability justice reminds us that care has never been about helping people fit existing systems. It asks how systems, relationships, and communities might change when we begin with the reality that bodies move through the world differently.

For many people, disability intersects with q***rness, trans identity, race, migration, poverty, caregiving, chronic illness, and trauma. These experiences cannot always be separated into neat categories. Research continues to show that disabled LGBTQ+ communities experience significantly higher rates of discrimination across healthcare, employment, housing, education, and public life than many of their peers.

This month can also be an opportunity to practice accessibility in everyday ways.
• Ask what support someone needs instead of assuming.
• Build flexibility into meetings, conversations, and expectations.
• Normalize rest without requiring people to justify it.
• Learn from disabled writers, organizers, and artists.
• Notice where "normal" has become the standard everyone else is expected to fit.

Disability justice reminds us that belonging is not something people should have to earn. It is something communities choose to create.

07/01/2026

Many people grow up being taught that intuition is something you're either born with or you aren't.

But what if intuition isn't a mysterious gift at all?

What if it's something we develop by paying closer attention to ourselves, our relationships, our bodies, our histories, and the patterns that emerge over time?

For some people, practices like tarot, oracle cards, journaling, prayer, meditation, or time in nature can become ways of slowing down enough to notice what has been there all along.

Not because the cards tell us what to do.

But because they create space for questions we may not have otherwise asked.

06/05/2026

I've been thinking about Pride as a trans woman from Malaysia, where many q***r and trans people, especially q***r Muslims, still navigate criminalization, surveillance, and exclusion.

This year, Pride feels less like a conversation about visibility and more like a conversation about responsibility.

How do we respond to a world shaped by war, displacement, anti-trans violence, climate collapse, and growing inequality without collapsing into hopelessness ourselves?

For me, Pride is a reminder that q***r communities have always known something about survival: none of us make it alone.

Long before recognition, there was mutual aid.

Before institutions responded, there were people caring for one another anyway.

Maybe that's what Pride is asking of us now.

Not to save the world by ourselves.

But to strengthen the relationships, communities, and networks of care that make a different world possible.

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Providence, RI
02906

Telephone

+14014415834

Website

https://www.phoenixrisingcenters.org/

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