About Santa

Santa Molina-Marshall is a Clinical Licensed Holistic Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, who has been in the field of trauma and sexual violence since 1990. In April 2014, she was awarded the National Sexual Violence Resource Centers, 2014 Visionary Voice Award, for her outstanding work in the field of anti-sexual violence within her community.

For eight years she held the position of Director of Counseling and Advocacy at the DC Rape Crisis Center, where she directed the Center’s counseling program; provided individual and group counseling; and supervised all clinical staff and graduate social work students.  Prior to her employment with the Center Ms. Molina; served as “Lifeline for Kids” Project Coordinator for the Center for Adoption Support and Education, Inc.; she worked as an Adoptions/Subsidy Social Worker for the Child and Family Services Agency, in Washington, DC; and served as Clinical Director at Sanctuary for Families, Inc., a domestic violence organization in New York City.

Presently, she manages her private practice in Washington, DC and is a national and international speaker on Women, Trauma, Mindfulness, Grief and Loss, Compassion Fatigue, Neurobiology of Trauma, and other topics. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.  Santa specializes on issues of loss and grief, bereavement, and adult and childhood sexual abuse.  She has been providing services to the community for the last 26 years.  She has developed a holistic approach to addressing the needs of survivors of trauma that encompass addressing the body, mind, and spirit.  Ms. Molina-Marshall is a compassionate, dedicated clinician and administrator.

Her new book, Running Through Darkness: Memoir of a Spiritual Warrior serves as healing manual, guiding reader to move from trauma to triumph, and reclaim our divine birthright to be whole, happy, joyous and free!