Lelaina Romero

Background

About Lelaina Romero

LeLaina is a singer / song leader/ songwriter, counseling psychologist, and community organizer working at the intersection of social justice and well-being. Her work particularly focuses on LGBTQ people of color, and on co-creating healing spaces for activists. She has also engaged in training and supervision of graduate students in social work, counseling and other clinical fields. At home in Durham, North Carolina, LeLaina leads the Beloved Community Chorus, a group that centers the music of people of color and engages worship at the intersections of music and social justice at the Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, and co-facilitates a healing justice collective working to create accessible and inclusive healing spaces for all bodies within and outside of institutions. LeLaina is a founding leader of The Clearing, an emerging community that is open to all and centers the voices, experience, and liberation of queer and trans people of color. LeLaina previously had a psychotherapy practice in Boston as part of The Meeting Point, a collective of independent body workers and mental health practitioners committed to meeting the needs of marginalized people, particularly in the LGBTQ community. She also developed a social justice seminar for interns at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design Counseling and Wellness Center. She served on the Implementation Collective of the Association of Women in Psychology, working to increase AWP’s welcome and inclusion of women with marginalized identities. As a queer multiracial/Latina community artist and healer, LeLaina believes that we grow and heal through connections—with ourselves, others, communities, and our surroundings. Through activism that centers relationships, she believes we have the ability to resist and dismantle oppression and create a more just world that can nurture growth, healing, and transformation for all of us.