Training
Practical, clinically-grounded learning experiences in cultural humility, global migration, EMDR, EFT, play therapy, supervision, and ethical practices.
Book Liliana For Your Next Training Workshop or Webinar
If you are looking for a trainer/speaker who can expand perspective, strengthen skills, and create an atmosphere where learning feels alive, Liliana brings a presence that resonates. Her workshops weave together clinical insight, storytelling, and cultural attunement, offering participants both practical tools and a deeper understanding of the worlds their clients carry.
For more than a decade, Liliana has trained therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, teachers, consultants, senior leadership teams, and organizational staff. Her work supports professionals across settings, mental health agencies, private practices, nonprofits, schools, and community organizations.
Liliana also provides accessible, empowering mental health education directly to immigrant communities, including refugees, asylum seekers, and DACA recipients. Her approach honors the lived experiences, cultural histories, and adaptive strengths of those navigating global migration.
With extensive experience delivering both in-person and virtual training, Liliana offers sessions that are immersive, practical, and tailored to each group's needs. She is available for single- or multi-day workshops in English or Spanish and is currently booking engagements for 2026 and 2027.
“If we allow ourselves to be curious about immigrant experiences, we can help immigrants better adjust by making sense of their reactions, their trauma responses, and their internal and external senses of safety.”- Liliana Baylon
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Expand Your Cultural Lens When Working with Immigrant and Refugee Clients
Being Understood as an Immigrant
Harmonizing Minds and Cultures: Exploring Cultural Considerations in Neuroscience Play Therapy
Working with LatinX (Latinos, Hispanics, LatinX, Latine)
Family Play Therapy & Cultural Perspectives
Embracing our Legacy: Culture and Multicultural Living
Navigating Acculturation and Grief
Cultural Considerations in Supervision
Couples: Family Roles & Expectations
Women in Transition
Acculturation: Children, Parents & Families
On Identity And Attachment
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and Cultural Adaptations
Synergetic Play Therapy (SPT) and Cultural Responsibility
Loss of Territory and Reconstruction of Identity in Adolescents
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Harmonizing Minds and Cultures: Exploring Cultural Considerations in Neuroscience Play Therapy.
Family Play Therapy & Cultural Perspective
Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) and Play Therapy
Family and Play Therapy
Ethical Issues in Play Therapy Supervision
Synergetic Play Therapy (SPT) and Cultural Responsability
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Diversity & Inclusion Across the Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) Tango
Working with LatinX and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT): Working with Hispanic Couples
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT): Latinx Couples & Addressing Cultural Adaptations
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) and Latinos
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EMDR with Culturally Complex Situations
EMDR and Cultural Adaptations
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Navigating Uncertainty in Life and in Parenting
Parenting & Acculturation
Embracing Our Legacy: Culture, and Multigenerational Living
Parenting Expectations
Acculturation: Children, Parents & Families
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Navigating the Intersection of Attachment, Trauma, and Migration: Understanding the Psychological Impact on Transnational Identities
Nurturing Roots and Wings: Understanding Attachment in the Context of Migration and Trauma
Crossing Borders, Carrying Memories: The Interplay of Trauma and Attachment in Migrant Journeys
Healing in Motion: Building Resilience through Attachment in the Wake of Migration Trauma
The Ripple Effects of Displacement: Trauma and Attachment in Migrant Populations
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Navigating the Intersection of Attachment, Trauma, and Migration: Understanding the Psychological Impact on Transnational Identities
Nurturing Roots and Wings: Understanding Attachment in the Context of Migration and Trauma
Crossing Borders, Carrying Memories: The Interplay of Trauma and Attachment in Migrant Journeys
Healing in Motion: Building Resilience through Attachment in the Wake of Migration Trauma
The Ripple Effects of Displacement: Trauma and Attachment in Migrant Populations
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Foundation of Clinical & Ethical practice
Effective & Ethical Supervision
Ethical Issues in Play Therapy Supervision
Training Expertise
Liliana’s expertise spans a broad range of subjects, and she enjoys collaborating with event co-ordinators to tailor custom workshops and webinars. Here are a selection of examples of commonly-requested topics that can be customized to your needs.
Contact Liliana for more detailed training descriptions and learning objectives.
Don’t see the topic you’re looking for? Reach out to discuss if Liliana can curate a customized presentation to meet your needs.
Featured Projects
Culturally Responsive Practice & Training Needs Survey
Your responses will directly inform training curriculum, supervision programs, and published research on multicultural clinical practice.
Clinician Training Needs Assessment
Help me understand who you are, who you serve, and what training you need. This takes about 3–5 minutes, and your responses directly inform curriculum design and program development.
Upcoming Events & Workshops
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![Event flyer with a torn paper design featuring a hand on a laptop keyboard and text about a professional development event titled 'If it wasn't documented, It Never Happened.' scheduled for March 27th, 2026, from 9 am to 12 pm MST, online, costing $200 with CE's through NBCC. The flyer includes photos of three speakers and a QR code for registration.]()
If it Wasn't Documented, It Never Happend
Your notes are your best protection.
Join If It Wasn’t Documented, It Didn’t Happen, a training led by seasoned experts who will show you how to write clinical documentation that is clear, ethical, and defensible. Learn what to include (and what to avoid) so your records truly safeguard both you and your clients.
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![Promotional poster for a family play therapy workshop titled "Villains in Plain Sight: Cultural Shadows in Family Play Therapy" with Liliana Baylon, at Disneyland Resort, California, September 6-12, 2026. Featuring a round photo of Liliana Baylon, a colorful background resembling cracked stone, a Disney-themed logo, a QR code, and social media information.]()
Play Therapy: Disney Bound Conference 2026
I’m excited to present Villains in Plain Sight: Cultural Shadows in Family Play Therapy at the 2026 Play Therapy: Disney Bound Conference, where we will examine how cultural shadows and family dynamics emerge in play therapy and how greater awareness can deepen clinical attunement and healing
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![Flyer for online seminar titled 'Foundations of Ethical Clinical Practice' scheduled for September 18th, 2026, from 9 am to 12 pm MST, costing $200 with CE credits. The flyer includes a QR code for registration, a list of topics such as ethics, risk management, working with families, and challenging scenarios. It features three speakers: Jennifer Shivey, Liliana Baylon, and Julie Jacobs, each with their professional credentials and headshots.]()
Foundations of Ethical Clinical Practice
Therapists, are you ready to strengthen your ethical foundation?
Join Foundations of Ethical Clinical Practice, a powerful training led by a mental health lawyer, an MFT, and an LPC with decades of combined experience. Walk away with practical tools to navigate tough decisions, protect your clients, and protect your practice
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Holding Space in Hard Times
You are holding clients who are grieving losses that did not come from one event, but from living inside ongoing violence, injustice, political instability, and uncertainty.
And when the session ends, you step back into the same world.
Holding Space in Hard Times is a support circle for mental health therapists carrying collective trauma both professionally and personally. This is not about fixing, performing resilience, or pushing through. It is about slowing down, tending to your nervous system, and being held while you continue to hold others.
This space centers shared witnessing, regulation, and ethical presence during a time when the emotional load of clinical work has quietly intensified.
You do not have to do this alone.
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Bridging Play and Attachment in Family Therapy
Playful Healing is a two-day immersive workshop designed to help clinicians blend Attachment-Centered Play Therapy and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy, expand cultural responsiveness, and leave with practical interventions for working with children and families.
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Advanced Embodied Cultural Humility
This advanced two-part webinar helps Certified Synergetic Play Therapists/Providers integrate cultural humility, systemic awareness, and embodied clinical presence into the moment-to-moment attunement of their work
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Culturally Responsive Play Therapy Supervision
A training for supervisors ready to expand culturally responsive play therapy practice across in-person and virtual spaces.
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2026 Play Therapy Conference
I am presenting twice at the PESI 2026 Play Therapy Conference, June 3–5, live online.
One session on reimagining supervision as a space of co-regulation and community care. One session on using sandtray to access and heal intergenerational trauma.
Have Liliana Speak At Your Next Workshop or Webinar
If you would like to request Liliana to speak at your event, please submit the form below.
Featured Previous Events
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![Advert for Profectum 2023 Fall Conference with a mosaic of photos of children playing.]()
Profectum Fall DEI Conference
Expanding the I: Race, Culture, and Play Panel
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![Advert for webinar with 3 speaker photos of Robert Jason Grant, Liliana Bayllon, Marshall Lyles and Facilitator Lisa Dion.]()
Synergetic Play Therapy Institute Webinar
Cultivating an Inclusive & Culturally Sensitive Clinical Practice
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![Advert for webinar with photos of Marshall Lyles and Liliana Baylon.]()
EMDR with culturally complex situations
When felt safety isn’t easy option
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![Advert for 3-hour course on ethical issues in play therapy supervision with image of two professional women speaking, with one woman making notes in a notebook.]()
Synergetic Play Therapy Foundation
Ethical Issues in Play Therapy Supervision
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![A promotional digital graphic for the Minnesota Association for Play Therapy's Play Therapy Week DEI training featuring Liliana Baylon, smiling, with blue and white background, event details, and association logo.]()
Play Therapy & Acculturation: Children, Parents and Families
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![A digital graphic promoting a play therapy training session titled 'J.E.D.I. Track,' focusing on multigenerational families and play therapy for enhancing connection and communication, scheduled for March 15th from 10am to 1pm EST, featuring Liliana Baylon.]()
Multigenerational Families & Play Therapy: Enhancing Connection and Communication
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![Promotional poster for a play therapy event titled "Play Therapy: To Infinity and Beyond". Features a large, futuristic, space-themed sculpture at Disneyland, with a smiling woman and her name, Liliana Baylon, licensed play therapist, at the bottom. The event dates are March 5-10, 2024, at Disneyland, with a website link for more information.]()
Playfully Embracing Differences - Family Therapy Across Cultures
More Information
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![Flyer for PESI Play Therapy Summit 2024 featuring speaker Liliana Baylon, with a photo of her smiling, and illustrations of books. The event is on May 8th, 2024, from 10:15 to 11:45 am CT, focusing on transforming language in play therapy.]()
Play Therapy Summit 2024
Transformig Language: The Progressive Hourney of Words in Play Therapy
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![Event poster with photos of three speakers and details about a talk on addressing ableism and disability in play therapy scheduled for Friday, June 7, from 9:00 am to 10:30 am.]()
Mid-Atlantic Play Therapy Training Institute
Keynote: Addressing Ableism and Dynamic Disability in Play Therapy
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![Event poster for Centennial Peaks Hospital promoting a session on collaborative approaches to supporting the unhoused population with Liliana Baylon, featuring a photo of her, encouraging education, networking, and lunch.]()
Centennial Peaks Hospital
Collaborative Approaches to Supporting the Unhoused Population
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![A promotional graphic for a live webinar titled "Supervisory Skills Foundations & Insights" with presenter Liliana Baylon, scheduled for November 20 from 9 AM to 12 PM mountain time (Denver), with 7-day recording access. The graphic features a smiling woman with curly hair and glasses, holding a pink tablet, in a bright room with a large window, plants, and shelves in the background.]()
Supervisory Skills
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![Event flyer titled 'Playing Around with Art: The Cultural Importance of Art in Play Therapy,' scheduled for November 2nd, 2024, at 8:30 am MST, in-person with six APT CE credits, showing children's hands engaging with colored paper and art supplies.]()
Playing Around with Art
The Cultural Importance of Art in Play Therapy
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![Flyer promoting a mental health therapy event focusing on breaking language barriers and enhancing multilingual competence. It features a photo of a smiling woman with long curly blonde hair and details about the event, including the speaker and activities.]()
Breaking Language Barriers
Enhancing Multilingual Competence in Mental Health
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![Promotional graphic for a workshop or seminar titled "Playful Healing: Blending EFT & ACPT" featuring two women, Liliana Baylon and Clair Mellenthin, with their photos, names, and websites, and an APT approved provider badge.]()
Integrating EFFT & ACPT
Working with families? Want to learned how to integrate Emotionally Focused Family Therapy and Attachment Centered Play Therapy?
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![Event poster with the title "Exploring the Internal and External Family Systems with a Cultural Opportunity Lens in Play Therapy," featuring photos of Liliana Baylon and Carmen Jimenez-Pride, and an illustration of children and adults assembling puzzle pieces, with a registration QR code.]()
Exploring the IFS through a Cultural Opportunity Lens in Play Therapy
Play therapists will explore the multifaceted realms of internal and external family systems through the lens of cultural opportunity
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![A person walking down a rural road surrounded by trees and wildflowers with mountains in the background, overlayed with text about bridging worlds through therapy, neuroscience, and culture.]()
Play Therapy, Neuroscience, and Embracing Culture with Newcomer Communities
Description goes hereNeuroscience of Play Therapy Summit in Cocoa Beach, Florida
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![A promotional flyer for an event called Momentum Builder, featuring photos of diverse women, with text describing the event as a connection opportunity for therapists with expert consultants, hosted by Liliana Baylon and Jessica Kruckeberg.]()
Momentum Builder
Get personalized guidance from experts in our community. Bring your questions—they have the answers!
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![Poster titled "Reimagining the Modern Therapist: Shedding Outdated Norms in Therapy." Features photos and names of five women including Khara Croswaite Brindle, Liliana Baylon, Dr. Jenny Hughes, and two other women. Contains a QR code on the lower left, with a list of outdated norms such as Hustle Culture and Overworked on the left side.]()
Reimagining the Modern Therapist: Shedding Outdated Norms in Therapy
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Ethical Perspectives in Cultural Supervision
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![Promotional flyer for an online workshop titled "El poder del juego y la emoción" about therapy through game lens, organized by Centro Mexicano EFT, scheduled for Wednesday, May 28, from 9 to 11 a.m., featuring a smiling woman with curly hair.]()
El Poder del Juego y La Emocion
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![Promotional flyer for a webinar series titled 'Community Conversations' with a focus on supporting immigrant clients. Features a photo of Liliana Baylon, a woman with curly blonde hair, smiling. The flyer mentions a live Q&A session with her, discussing cultural complexity and care in migrant communities, and includes her credentials as MBA, LMFT-S, RPT-S.]()
Psychotherapy.net
Conversation with Liliana Baylon About Cultural Complexity and Care in Migrant Communities
Testimonials
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Since 2009, I've had the honor of collaborating with Liliana Baylon, whose leadership and competence have been nothing short of remarkable. I am confident that her skills and experience will be invaluable assets in any arena. Liliana's ability to communicate complex ideas with clarity and to lead with both insight and empathy has consistently impressed me. I am certain they will excel in empowering and educating others just as they have in our collaborations and in every space we have shared.
Marisol Solarte-Erlacher
Trauma Expertise | Advocate for BIPOC & Latina Leadership | BIPOC & Latine/x Advocate, Trainer, Speaker
www.marisolerlacher.com
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Realistic Serenity Behavioral Health has been incredibly fortunate to have Liliana as our Cultural Consultant. Her expertise in guiding clinicians, both new and experienced in the field, is an asset to the mental health community! Liliana's knowledge of Play Therapy, Synergetic Play Therapy, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Supervision (and so much more) makes her point of view diverse and dynamic. She is approachable, supportive, and no-nonsense - precisely the kind of professional I want to be around personally and to have as a consultant for my team. I would endorse her a thousand times over!
Jennifer Shivey MA, LPC, RPT-S
Owner/Clinical Director at Realistic Serenity Behavioral Health
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![Smiling woman with pink hair sitting at a table with a tablet, a stack of children's books, LEGO figures, and a notebook in a wood-paneled room.]()
I wholeheartedly recommend Liliana Baylon as a beacon of excellence in the field of therapy. Liliana is an exceptional professional whose dedication to her craft and commitment to inclusivity and cultural understanding in our field is commendable. I have collaborated closely with Liliana and witnessed her unwavering passion for fostering progressive and inclusive therapeutic environments. Her profound understanding and appreciation of cultural nuances make her the go-to professional for addressing diverse cultural perspectives within our practice.
Maria Laquerre-Diego, LMFT-S, RPT-S
CEO/Owner
www.anewhopetc.org
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Liliana is an amazing speaker, trainer, therapist, and leader. Her presentations and trainings are crafted with detail and thought to inclusivity and cultural differences, making her a popular speaker and trainer worldwide. As a consultant, she is warm, friendly, and knowledgeable, contributing to her being a sought-after expert in cultural diversity, inclusion, generational trauma, immigrant families, and working with children from trauma-informed clinical competencies. I am honored to work alongside her in various projects as a colleague and friend, knowing she is making a difference in diverse communities she is passionate about and called to serve.
Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, CFT-I™
TEDx Speaker, Consultant | Mental Health Therapist | Certified Financial Therapist-Level I™ | Published Author
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Liliana is a true leader in the mental health field. A trainer and supervisor of several evidence-based modalities that are trauma-informed and attachment based, such as EMDR, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Synergetic Play Therapy. Liliana has taken her education and her lived experience to create a therapeutic environment that fosters safety, curiosity, and healing. Whether she is working with her clients or supporting other clinicians in their professional development, Liliana is an example of true empathy and a wealth of knowledge. I've had the pleasure of speaking with her personally and professionally on several occasions. She was a guest on my podcast, The Turtle Shell Therapy Institute, where she shared her expertise in working with family and children as well as what to expect in a play therapy or family therapy session. I learn something new and helpful every time I listen to Liliana speak!
James Nee Hundley, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker | Founder of Turtle Shell Therapy Institute
www.turtleshelltherapy.com
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Liliana is an extremely knowledgeable and articulate speaker and presenter. I have had the pleasure of collaborating with her on multiple workshop presentations and I find her to be not only a competent, experienced, and responsive partner in presentations, but also a kind and compassionate colleague with a great sense of humor and a genuine warmth about her. I don’t partner with other professionals often and I have admittedly high standards when I do so – Liliana exceeds those standards consistently and I look forward to continued collaboration with her on an ongoing basis.
Julie A. Jacobs, Psy.D., J.D. P.C.
Licensed Psychologist in Colorado | Attorney
www.julieajacobspc.com
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Through her brilliant use of storytelling, her authentic use of self, and her deep knowledge of culture, Liliana Baylon is able to provide a learning experience that is not only psychologically safe but deeply intellectually stimulating. As a teacher, she creates an environment in which curiosity is welcomed, and your life experiences are honored in a way that celebrates people from all different places. Liliana has the unique gift of being able to simultaneously accept you for who you are and what you do not know while also challenging you to become the best version of yourself.
Jen Taylor, LCSW-C, RPT-S
Therapist | Teacher | Writer
www.jentaylorplaytherapy.com
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I have collaborated with Liliana on two projects involving supervision and training therapists in the Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) model. In every encounter and conversation we have had, I have learned something new from her. Liliana offers informed and sensitive views that always invite reflection and integration. The course participants where we collaborated expressed feeling safe and supported and appreciated their didactic style, with simple and clarifying explanations. Personally, I appreciate her transparency, humor, and warmth, and I highly recommend her work.
Ali Barbosa, LMFT
ICEEFT Certified Emotionally Focused Therapy Trainer | Supervisor | Therapist
Director of EFT México
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Liliana Baylon is one of those rare people who doesn’t just teach; she transforms. I’ve learned so much from her, not only through her wisdom in play therapy, EMDR, neuroscience, and cultural experiences but in the way she moves through the world with such authenticity and heart. She is a true change agent, creating ripples of impact wherever she goes. Getting to learn from her and truly know her has been an incredible gift.
Jackie Flynn, EdS, LMHC-S, RPT-S™ | EMDRIA Approved Consultant & Training Provider
Owner of Counseling in Brevard | Founder of EMDR and Play Therapy Integration Support
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Liliana offers a fresh, bold, and much-needed perspective on how to navigate culturally complex therapeutic spaces with compassion and humility. We are lucky to have access to her honesty and wisdom.
Marshall Lyles, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S, TBRI-trained, & EMDRIA Approved Consultant
Owner of Marshall Miniatures & The Workshop
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Liliana Baylon is a vibrant and fearless guide who leads with honesty, authenticity, and heart. She embodies grace and truth in every space she enters, offering a presence that is both grounding and empowering. With a deep dedication to supporting others on their journeys of self-discovery and healing, Liliana brings a wealth of wisdom, compassion, and insight to her work. Her many gifts create a safe and transformative space where individuals can explore their true selves and step into their fullest potential.
Ana M. Gomez, MC, LPC
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