Meet Rosa

‘Roxy’

(She/her/hers)

A young woman with curly hair wearing a green dress, smiling, standing in front of a wall of pink and white roses, with a sign that says 'You're beautiful' above her.

Rosa ‘Roxy’ Shadrin-Toledo does not believe any individual is a blank canvas. She believes we are all a work of art in progress and that we have all been influenced by the brush sizes, brush shapes, and colors the canvas has experienced. No one lives in a vacuum. Therefore, Rosa believes it can be helpful for clients to know some background information about their therapist. A client may find they connect with Rosa due to components of their shared identities or shared lived experiences and that’s beautiful.

A coastal scene featuring a view of the ocean, rocky cliffs, and a few white buildings on the hillside. In the foreground, there are pink bougainvillaea flowers climbing a green railing.

A woman (Rosa) sitting on a white marble bench in a decorative gazebo structure, smiling, with a rural landscape and cloudy sky in the background.

Rosa (nickname Roxy) identifies as a Latina of Peruvian heritage with Quechua ancestry. She also identifies as a neurodivergent and queer therapist. Rosa grew up brown in the South and knows what it’s like to navigate a world where people who look like her, are often not represented. Born in Queens, New York, and raised in Apex, North Carolina, she brings both her lived experience and professional training to support clients on their healing journey. Rosa attended undergraduate school at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro (2011) and went on to graduate from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work (2016).

In Rosa’s free time, she can be somewhat of a couch potato who loves to watch YouTube, documentaries, cartoons, scary movies, and comedies. Rosa also enjoys being out in nature, playing with and loving on her three fur babies, and spending time with friends and family. She loves listening to all kinds of music from hip hop to punk rock to reggaeton, going to concerts, practicing yoga, traveling, and trying new restaurants. She especially enjoys engaging in spiritual practices such as ancestral work, using oracle decks, tarot, altar building, and candle workings.