Founder / Executive Director
Giselle Bonilla is Afro-Taína Arawak. Giselle is co-founder of Time Of Butterflies as well as the executive director. Giselle and her sister Kat founded Time Of Butterflies together to create a space of healing for BIPOC women in Boston, MA to provide resources, workshops, events, and community gatherings. Giselle has always believed that the most healing happens within a community. Giselle is also the founder of a non-profit called Centro Bonilla in the Dominican Republic, which provides mental health services with a holistic approach for the communities in Bonao, DR as well as others. She is currently running her online private practice as a trauma-informed holistic therapist and healer at Pure Medicine | Holistic Therapies (Holistic Wellbeing Counseling). Giselle works in a way that focuses on her own rich family, cultural and ancestral wisdom, experiences, knowledge, strengths, and spirituality. She believes that the mind, the body and soul are strongly connected and that they work together to heal.​