Cages to Wings Wellness envisions a future where care is liberating, not limiting.

We imagine a world where healing is rooted in relationship, shaped by cultural truth, and guided by self-determination. A world where no one has to perform wholeness to receive support, and where systems of care are transformed to honor lived experience, repair harm, and make collective healing possible.

Cages to Wings Wellness is a liberation-focused practice offering therapy, mentorship, and community-based education that supports emotional wellbeing, self-determination, and collective transformation.

Through trauma-informed and culturally responsive care, we support people in unlearning internalized oppression, building self-trust, and practicing ways of living that move them from survival into sovereignty.

Our work creates space for people to reconnect with themselves and each other, while challenging the systems that have kept so many in silence, fragmentation, or exhaustion. Healing here is not just possible—it is liberating, relational, and deeply intentional.

We heal by dismantling the cage and building W.I.N.G.S. These values guide that flight:

• Wonder: Healing includes joy, curiosity, and imagination. You get to dream, not just survive.

• Integrity: You get to be real. No masks, no perfection. Just truth, and a life aligned with your values.

• Nourishment: Rest, pleasure, and presence matter. You deserve to feel fueled, not just functional.

• Grit: You’re strong, and you don’t have to carry it alone. Your voice matters here.

• Safety: Safety makes healing possible. We build brave spaces where all of you is welcome.

I live and work on the unceded ancestral lands of the Kanaka ʻŌiwi, the Native Hawaiian people. Honolulu is part of a living, breathing pae ʻāina that has been protected and cared for long before colonization.

As a therapist of Ilokano Filipino descent, I come from a history of movement across islands and oceans, shaped by migration and the entangled histories of the Philippines, Hawai‘i, and the United States. My family traces its roots to Sanchez Mira, Cagayan; Balungao; and Santa Maria, Pangasinan. These places were carried forward by the hands of teachers, barangay leaders, community organizers, entrepreneurs, farmers, healthcare workers, trade workers, garment workers, and quiet caretakers. Their histories remind me that healing is never separate from land, lineage, or liberation.

This practice exists because of the care, survival, and resistance of those who came before. I honor my kuleana as a guest on this ʻāina and as a private practice owner—to care for the land, to respect its people, and to create a space where healing can take flight.