Hello. My name is Paloma Andazola-Reza.

I am a cis-queer Xicana (she/they pronouns) who lives with invisible disability. My own journey of healing and seeking a place of wholeness at all my intersections has brought me to this work. I do this work in honor of knowing what it takes to find grace, empowerment, and self-love 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 my ancestors and communities who have found healing in so many brilliant and important ways. I do this work in honor of the generations that follow us.

I am a licensed clinical social worker (associate) who works from a somatic-psychotherapy perspective, integrating expressive arts, narrative, psychodynamic, somatic, sensorimotor, and culturally responsive healing approaches. I specialize in healing complex trauma, grief and loss, traumatic loss and complicated grief, chronic stress, vicarious trauma, and burnout, experiences of disability across the spectrum and neurodiversity, chronic illness and pain, terminal illness and end of life transitions, LGBTQQIA+ responsive, two-spirit and diverse gender identities affirmative, multiethnic/bi-racial, cross-cultural, and intersectional identity experiences, and transformation and somatic liberation within the impacts of oppression, racism, historical and intergenerational trauma, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, fatphobia, body policing, and navigating all the other stressors and transitions that life presents us. I work with adults and youth (ages 16+).