Rita Molestina, LICSW (she/they)
Burien, WA
Rita is a licensed clinical social worker and has worked at the intersections of community wellness, education, and healthcare equity for 20 years. As a facilitator, consultant, and healer, she strives to uphold a healing justice framework, recognizing and addressing the impact of individual, collective, and systemic trauma on our bodies, minds, and hearts. Rita believes that by centering the body in liberation work, we welcome in wholeness and are better equipped to move with integrity and in alignment with our values. Through sharing accessible practices and frameworks that bring us into relationship with our bodies, Rita supports individuals and groups in drawing from this innate wisdom and leaning into transformative change. She draws from her own healing journey to facilitate embodied liberation for all and is passionate about somatics, meditation and movement, reproductive justice, intergroup dialogue, and ethical nonprofit management.
“I love Dr. Sará King’s definition: ‘The social being, like, presence with me and you at the same time, right. And then justice being, um, that, like, a act of love.’ Can I, can I hold both of us and also practice love? How can I be social, be with myself and you, at the same time, holding my own-self and my boundaries, recognizing you as another? And then, there’s a practice of love, holding both of our integrity at the same time. So what does, what does that love look like?
