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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/sixto-munoz</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Sixto Muñoz, LICSW (He/Him) - Program Director</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sixto Muñoz is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. Sixto earned his Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from The School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago and believes that collaboration is key in a therapeutic relationship. Sixto prioritizes creating a trusting and supportive environment for clients to explore and discuss their presenting concerns. Sixto has over 10 years of experience working with the LGBTQ+ community and was the Program Manager of Integrated Behavioral Health Services at Fenway Health, where he worked to develop and grow the integration of behavioral health and primary care services at Fenway Health. Sixto was also the Coordinator of Behavioral Health Training at Fenway Health and is invested in the training and development of new clinicians. Sixto completed training in Integration of Primary Care Behavioral Health from UMass Medical School, has been a certified HIV testing counselor, and has presented locally and nationally on a variety of topics including the importance of behavioral health integration for LGBTQ+ people. Sixto loves to travel and enjoys spending his time connecting with friends and family. Sixto is fluent in English and Spanish.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/natasha-holmes</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-01-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Dr. Natasha Holmes, Psy.D. (She/Her) - Executive Director</image:title>
      <image:caption>Dr. Holmes is a licensed psychologist, consultant, and life coach. Dr. Holmes is a psychoanalytically and trauma informed black feminist and womanist psychologist with training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and biofeedback-informed interventions. She works with adults providing both therapy and life coaching. Dr. Holmes has completed two Bachelor of Arts degrees from Seattle University, a Master of Science degree from Pacific University, and a Doctorate of Psychology degree from Pacific University in Oregon. Her pre-doctoral internship was at the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center and postdoctoral training was at the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy where she studied psychoanalytic theory. She then graduated from the Postgraduate Fellowship Program at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Holmes is licensed to practice psychology in Massachusetts and Washington state. Dr. Holmes is also a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program and the United States of Women Accelerator Program. Dr. Holmes serves on the steering committee for the Boston chapter of Reflective Spaces/Material Places. She has published and presented on the topics of race, class, gender, sexuality, intersectionality, intergenerational trauma, and engaging in difficult dialogues. Dr. Holmes is a recipient of the 2015 Pacific University Community Service Award and was a Multicultural Concerns Committee Scholar for the American Psychological Association’s Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (2019-2020). Her favorite past times include traveling to countries in the African diaspora, trying locally-owned restaurants, and spending time with her dog (Abebi). Dr. Holmes is fluent in English..</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/juliana-anderson</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-02-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Juliana Anderson, LCSW (She/They) - Fellow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Juliana holds a bachelor's in psychology and a master's in clinical social work from Simmons University. Juliana is dedicated to working with individuals facing life and identity-related challenges, such as navigating cultural and generational conflicts, immigration, gender and sexual identity, and emerging adulthood. She is especially passionate about supporting Queer and BIPOC clients, first- and second-generation immigrants, and young adults. Folks in consensual non-monogamous relationships, including polyamorous and open relationships are also welcome in her practice. As someone who has experienced transformative change in her own therapeutic work, Juliana believes in the power of therapy to foster transformation and healing, while also recognizing that the fields of psychology, social work, and mental health are steeped in colonialism and white supremacy, and have perpetrated great harm on many historically marginalized people. Juliana’s work is deeply rooted in liberation psychology – a framework that understands that oppressive social, political, and cultural conditions are often the primary causes of psychological suffering. Drawing heavily from psychodynamic and relational theories, Juliana aims to integrate social justice and intersectional feminist frameworks into her therapeutic work. Juliana uses narrative therapy to help her clients gain insight into the events that make up their life and believes that her role is to listen deeply and compassionately as clients (re)write their own stories. When not thinking about mental health, social work, and collective liberation, you can find her reading poetry, making lists, thinking about food, or where to travel next. She is currently learning and practicing how to read tarot cards. Juliana is bilingual and bicultural, fluent in Portuguese and English.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/tamara-maurice</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-02-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Tamara Maurice, LCSW (She/Her) - Fellow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Tamara Maurice is a Haitian, Black, woman who is dedicated to working with individuals seeking to heal. Tamara enters each session with curiosity, compassion, empathy, and without judgment. She values and prioritizes the importance of co-creating brave and safe spaces with clients to process their experiences. As an individual with multiple social identities, Tamara can understand the complexities of being a first-generation and a a person of color living in America. Tamara has a B.A in Criminal Justice from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and also studied Child Psychology during her time there. In addition to having her Master's in Social Work from Simmons University, Tamara is also certified in Trauma-informed practice. Tamara is passionate about providing BIPOC, Queer, and other marginalized folks a safe and supportive space to heal and process their lived experiences. She is especially determined to support clients navigating through cultural, generational, and racial identity conflicts. Tamara understands the importance of the therapeutic relationship, and respecting the dignity and worth of people. Her diverse and trauma-informed background plays a role in her practice.  When Tamara is not working, you can find her watching anime or scary movies, hanging out with loved ones, and traveling Tamara is bilingual and bicultural. She is fluent in English and intermediate in Haitian/Creole.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/j-casale</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2025-02-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - J Casale, LCSW (They/Them) - Fellow</image:title>
      <image:caption>J believes that therapy is a necessary part of emotional growth and healing. Mental health has always been a value of J's and they feel therapy is how someone can create pathways for navigating this growth. J holds a Master of Social Work from Bridgewater State University, as well as a License in Clinical Social Work from the state of Massachusetts. J has been trained in Youth Mental Health First Aid, as well as experience with Harm Reduction, Homelessness, and LGBTQ+ work. J draws from the theoretical frameworks of narrative, strengths-based, and cognitive behavioral, but is open to working with the individual and meeting them where they are at. J spends their free time drawing and painting, as well as hiking and playing video games. Their favorite movie is The Fantastic Mr. Fox and their favorite video games are Chicory and Night in the Woods. J is fluent in English.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/isha-desai</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-02-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Isha Desai, LICSW (She/Her) - Fellow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Isha Desai is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. She received her undergraduate degree in intensive psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and completed her master’s degree at Boston University, School of Social Work (BUSSW), with a trauma specialization. Ms. Desai is a Certified Trauma Research Foundation psychotherapist. Ms. Desai strongly believes in using a collaborative therapeutic approach that aims to ‘meet you where you are at,’ and focuses on curiosity, liberation, play, and healing. She strives to discuss the various components of life that impact individuals on a mental, physical, and spiritual level, including relationships, cultural identities, intersectional identities, inequity, and other interpersonal, institutional, and systemic factors. She adopts a Liberation, Queer lens, and Racial Equity lens framework for her practice style.  Ms. Desai provides individual psychotherapy for presenting concerns including life transitions/adjustments, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, disordered eating, ADHD, and complex trauma. She is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Liberation Health Model (LHM) certified clinician, that primarily uses intuitive approaches such as Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Narrative Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Components Based Psychotherapy (CBP), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and body-based healing. Ms. Desai is particularly passionate about addressing the role of cultural, systemic, and intergenerational trauma that impacts BIPOC, immigrant, and refugee populations, and is committed to reframing and de-stigmatizing mental health narratives within Asian communities.  Ms. Desai is fluent in English and Gujarati, and proficient in Hindi. She has experience working with ages as young as 5 years old to geriatric populations (65+ years old).  Ms. Desai enjoys cooking, traveling, dancing, and creating. She is a HUGE foodie!</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/red-samaniego</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-20</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Red Samaniego, LMSW (They/Them) - Fellow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Red Samaniego is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) offering relational, trauma-informed psychotherapy to adults. They believe everyone can benefit from support in tending to the more difficult, uncertain, and worry-inducing aspects of their lives. Red’s approach is warm, non-judgmental, and tailored to each client. They have experience working with clients with a wide variety of identities and experiences, including clients seeking support as they navigate depression and anxiety; migration/immigration experiences; trans identities and coming out; reproductive autonomy and PPD; grief and loss; and addressing painful ancestral/inherited patterns. Red uses interventions based on narrative therapy, parts work, liberation psychology, and psychodynamic theories. This can look like re-writing your story about yourself or a past event, untangling and finding compassion for your emotions, identifying how societal power structures affect your wellbeing, or working to change patterns of how you relate to and love yourself and others. Red received an MSW from Smith School of Social Work and an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. They have trained at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital’s Maternal and Child Health Department in Baltimore, MD and at the liberation-focused therapy practice We Rise Collective, in Boston, MA. In addition to being a postgraduate fellow at the We Rise Collective, they currently see adults and couples at the Greene Clinic in NYC and low-income Spanish-speaking adults through the BHEAM program in Baltimore, MD. Red is fluent in English and Spanish.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/eve-king</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Eve King, LICSW (She/Her) - Fellow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Eve believes in meeting people where they are and collaboratively preparing a future they desire. Pillars of her work are unconditional positive regard and growing powerful therapeutic alliances with her clients. She advocates alongside clients and emphasizes living in alignment with their values/goals. She also ensures safety in session for clients to show up, carve, and heal their authentic selves.   Eve is a recipient of the 2020 CHNA 17 award for Black/African American-identifying individuals in the mental health field. She is trained in Exposure Response and Prevention therapy. She is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis Fellowship Program. Eve graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Psychology from Lasell University. She has earned a Master's in Clinical Social Work from the Boston College School of Social Work with a Trauma certificate. Eve dedicates her spare time to gardening, being with loved ones, playing video games, and writing poetry. Eve is fluent in English and Proficient in ASL.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/gabby-samaripa</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Gabby Samaripa (She/They) - Graduate Student Trainee</image:title>
      <image:caption>Gabby believes that healing looks different for everyone and that the people we serve are worthy of being cared for and empathized with however they decide to show up to the work. Gabby has served on the board for Council for Students of Color as well as the Anti-Racist Planning Group at Smith College as a way to cultivate community for the queer BIPOC community she is dedicated to serving. Gabby has professionally worked with queer BIPOC communities surrounding sexual health and HIV/STI treatment and prevention, neurodivergent youth surrounding behavioral services, and within the Community Mental Health field to facilitate foundational relationship skills amongst some of the most vulnerable in our population. They are currently pursuing a Master’s degree of social work at Smith College and has acquired a Bachelor’s degree in Health Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin. In their free time, Gabby enjoys going to drag shows with her friends, psychoanalyzing reality TV, and taking her Pomeranian, Foxy, on adventures around the city.   Gabby is fluent in English.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/katherine-gomez</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Katherine Gomez (She/Her/Ella) - Doctoral Student Trainee</image:title>
      <image:caption>Katherine Gomez (she/her/ella) is a Doctoral Student Trainee for We Rise Collective. At the heart of Katherine’s work is a deep commitment to listening with care and compassion. She understands that our stories are shaped not only by personal experiences but also by the larger systems and relationships around us. Believing that healing happens in connection, Katherine strives to create a space where clients feel truly seen, heard, and supported. She is passionate about walking alongside people as they navigate trauma, identity, intimacy, and life’s many transitions. With warmth and curiosity, Katherine welcomes individuals, offering a space where growth and healing can unfold at a comfortable pace. Katherine holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology with a minor in Victimology from Stockton University. She completed a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the George Washington University. Katherine now pursues her doctoral studies in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Forensic Psychology at William James College. Katherine has four years of experience in the mental health field. She weaves together humanistic, relational, cultural, mindfulness, and trauma-informed practices to gently support clients in understanding old patterns and finding new ways forward. Outside of the therapy room, Katherine loves to fill life with creativity and joy. She can often be found experimenting in the kitchen with new baking recipes or winding down with arts and crafts projects that let her playful side shine. Music is another big part of her world—whether she’s singing, enjoying a night of karaoke, or dancing just for fun. She also cherishes quiet moments with a good book, getting lost in new stories and ideas. These hobbies bring balance, laughter, and inspiration to her life, and she enjoys sharing that same spirit of curiosity and creativity with her clients. Katherine is fluent in English and Spanish.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/amy-rodriguez</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Amy Rodriguez (She/They) - Graduate Student Trainee</image:title>
      <image:caption>Amy Rodriguez (she/they) is a Graduate Student Trainee for We Rise Collective. Amy believes that everyone deserves to feel they belong. She believes each person’s experience endows them with unique gifts and strengths to share with the world. Amy has experience working with young adults and especially loves working with neurodivergent, LGBTQ+ and mixed race clients, drawing on psychodynamic theory, liberation health, and dialectical materialist perspectives. Amy holds a BA in comparative literature from Yale University. She is a clinical MSW candidate at Smith School of Social Work. In her spare time, you can find her in the creek with her dog, thrifting plus clothing, and foraging edible &amp; medicinal mushrooms for restaurants. Amy is fluent in English.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/maihnia-lee</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Maihnia Lee, LICSW (She/Her) - Fellow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Maihnia graduated with a Masters of Social Work at Boston College and earned certificates in Trauma and Neuroscience in Social Work. During her final year, Maihnia was a fellow through the Council of Social Work Education Minority Fellowship Program and the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Behavioral Health Internship Pipeline Program. For her undergraduate degree, Maihnia studied at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) earning a Bachelor's of Art degree in Anthropology. As a Hmong-American, Southeast Asian, daughter of refugees, and LGBTQ-identified, and bilingual clinician, Maihnia's work is grounded in intersectionality. Guided by a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and health liberation framework, Maihnia aims to center her work on working alongside and empowering her clients. Maihnia's clinical work is relational-based, client-centered, and culturally aware by following the client's lead of what is most important and valuable to them. She draws from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, and Psychodynamic Theory to inform her clinical work, weaving in concepts related to mindfulness, grounding, and psychoeducation. Maihnia specializes in working with adults and couples and is open to working with youth/adolescents. Issues that Maihnia has experience engaging with include trauma, attachment ruptures, systemic oppression, and displacement due to war and other atrocities. When not in the office, you can find Maihnia taking long walks in nature, biking, practicing yoga, reading a book or two, and snuggling up to her cat, Monday. Maihnia is fluent in English and conversationally fluent in Hmong.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/catie-crandell</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Catie Crandell, LCSW (She/Her) - Fellow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Catie believes in the inherent wisdom and insight that all individuals carry, approaching the therapeutic relationship as a deeply collaborative one in which clients are the foremost experts of their own experience. She is passionate about working with anyone from the LGBTQIA+ community,  “justice system”-impacted people, sexually marginalized folks, as well as anyone seeking to disrupt how systems of power influence their mental health. She grounds herself in an anti-oppressive framework that draws from intersectional, abolitionist, transfeminist, and decolonial models. Catie’s clinical work is rooted in relational, narrative, structural, and psychodynamic practices, and she fosters healing through care, curiosity, and humor. Catie holds an MSW from the Smith College for Social Work. Before pivoting to the mental health field, she studied and taught English literature for many years. As a result, she is highly attuned to how we are all (often unconsciously) guided and shaped by the words and stories that we use to describe ourselves, as well as those which are bestowed upon us by others. Metaphors and restorying are, in Catie’s opinion, therapeutic super-tools. Catie has four beloved cats, multitudinous house plants, and high hopes for growing her own vegetables when the seasons allow. She wears dungarees on most days and identifies as a cheese enthusiast who also loves a good tomato. Catie is fluent in English.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/erin-moraga-raber</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-12</lastmod>
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      <image:title>The Team- - Erin Moraga Raber, MA, LMHC, MT-BC (They/She) - Fellow</image:title>
      <image:caption>Erin Moraga Raber, MA, LMHC, MT-BC (they/she), is a licensed mental health counselor and board-certified music therapist whose approach centers decolonial and liberatory frameworks. Erin’s therapeutic style is relational, resource-oriented, holistic, trauma-informed, and collaborative—grounded in an awareness of the societal, cultural, political, environmental, spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects that shape each client’s experience and well-being. They believe in co-creating a culturally affirming therapeutic space where clients can connect with their own power and agency in their healing process, and deepen their understanding of self and their inner world. Erin values the wisdom of the body and honors each client’s personal strengths, inner resources, practices, and knowledges that contribute to their healing and liberation. As a queer, non-binary, mixed-race white Chicanx, Erin is rooted in community and guided by the belief systems and spiritual practices of their ancestors, along with Indigenous worldviews. Their clinical work draws on a range of methodologies, including music therapy, somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), transpersonal psychology, and psychodynamic approaches. Erin’s unique voice-based music therapy method challenges dominant Eurocentric paradigms in the music therapy field by incorporating ancient and modern sound healing practices, as well as Indigenous and non-Western models of healing with sound and music. Erin has experience supporting BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals, couples, and groups seeking support around anxiety, gender and sexuality identity development, life transitions, depression, PTSD, and complex trauma. They also work with clients navigating cancer or chronic illness, caregiving, end-of-life experiences, and grief and loss. Erin holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Music Therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA. They have received additional training and accreditation through the California Institute of Integral Studies in Sound, Voice, and Music Healing and the Vox Mundi School of Sound and the Voice. Erin is also certified in Hospice and Palliative Care Music Therapy through The Center for Music Therapy in End-of-Life Care and trained in resource-oriented music and imagery through the Institute for Music and Consciousness. Erin is fluent in English and speaks Spanglish.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.werisecollective.us/the-team-wrc/brittney-carrigan-laquidara</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-12</lastmod>
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