Giselle Bonilla identifies as Dominican Afro-Latina. Giselle is co-founder of Time Of Butterflies as well as the clinical director. Giselle and her sister Kat founded Time Of Butterflies together to create a space of healing for BIPOC women in Boston, MA and to provide needed resources. Giselle has always believed that the most healing happens within a community. Giselle is also the founder of Centro Bonilla in the Dominican Republic, which provides mental health services with a holistic approach for the communities in Bonao, DR as well as the surrounding communities. Giselle is certified in Reiki, Reflexology, Sound Healing and Trauma-Informed Yoga. She believes that the mind, the body and spirit are strongly connected and that they need each other in order to heal. She is currently running her online private practice as a Holistic Therapist at Holistic Wellbeing Counseling.
Giselle is the author of, "Healing the Body through Awareness, and Expression: The Polyvagal Theory and the Expressive Arts in Therapy with Women Who Have Been Abused."
Link of the article: https://digitalcommons.lesley.edu/expressive_theses/240/
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