Rikki Garcia – Opening Doors to Safer and More Inclusive Schools

Author: Rikki Garcia

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Rikki Garcia

Rikki is a single mom, a Marriage and Family Therapist in Training, and an advocate. Rikki is a California native who moved to Wisconsin at the end of 2021. Rikki started working in community mental health settings serving underrepresented populations exposed to trauma. As a therapist, Rikki uses a feminist and liberation-based approach to provide a space where her clients can explore the impacts of systemic oppression on their mental health, identity, and well-being. Rikki hopes to help empower individuals who seek to challenge societal norms and expectations, especially those based on gender, race, class, sexuality, neurodiversity, and other intersecting identities. Advocacy and empowering others have been part of Rikki’s healing journey. Education and knowledge have helped Rikki push back against systems and people that otherwise seem too powerful to approach. Through knowledge, Rikki has been able to find their voice and confidence again and is able to give her son’s story a voice

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Education, Restraint

When a Field Trip Ends in Prone Restraint

by Rikki Garcia August 15, 2025 0

The most recent restraint occurred while on a field trip. My son was having an anxiety attack related to his aide leaving and his crush telling him that she did... Read more.