Hello.
My name is Paloma Andazola-Reza.

I am a cis-queer Xicana/Mestiza (she/her pronouns). I am a trauma survivor and live with invisible disability. My own journey of healing and seeking a place of wholeness at my intersections has brought me to this work. I do this work in honor of my ancestors and my communities who have found healing in so many different, brilliant, and important ways. I do this work in honor of knowing what it takes to find grace and empowerment in the process of healing, in honor of messiness and complexity, and in honor of living at the center of our unique, creative, and expressive beings. I do this work with the understanding that this journey is not linear, it often does not have a clear and definitive place to land, and requires us to unlearn and relearn how to honor ourselves as whole, fierce, resilient, connected, and interdependent. I do this work in honor of the generations that follow us. I am a licensed clinical social worker (associate) who works as a psychotherapist using expressive arts, cognitive, narrative, psychodynamic, culturally responsive, integrative, and somatic healing approaches. I specialize in complex trauma, grief and loss, intimate partner, caregiver, systemic, and institutional violence and abuse, traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and burnout with direct service providers, caregivers and other healers, experiences of disability and neurodiversity, chronic illness and pain, LGBTQQIA2+ responsive and gender identities affirmative, multiethnic/bi-racial, cross-cultural, and intersectional identity experiences, and transforming the impacts of oppression, racism, historical, intergenerational, complex trauma, ableism, homophobia, fatphobia, and body policing. I enjoy working with adults and youth (ages 16+) in healing, transformation, and navigating the stressors and transitions life presents.