Hello. My name is Paloma Andazola-Reza.

I am a cis-queer Xicana (she/her 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, sacred, 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, intuitive beings and find ourselves in deeper connection and interdependence. I do this work in honor of my ancestors and communities, who have traditionally and continually known and found healing in all the brilliant and important ways that have often gone unseen, unknown, or unrecognized. I do this work in honor of the generations that are following us.

I am a licensed clinical social worker (associate) who works from a somatic-psychotherapeutic perspective. My approach integrates expressive arts, narrative/plática, psychodynamic, somatic, sensorimotor, and culturally integrative healing approaches. I specialize in healing complex trauma, PTSD, grief and loss, traumatic loss and complicated grief, chronic stress, vicarious trauma and burnout. I specialize working with people who live with experiences of disAbility and neurodiversity, chronic illness and pain, terminal illness, and end of life transitions, from a Disability Justice perspective. I am fiercely honoring and affirming of all LGBTQQIA+, two spirit, gender identities and fluidities. I specialize in working with Latinx/Xicanx/Hispañx and Indigenous/Native/Aboriginal peoples and people with multiethnic, bi-racial, cross-cultural, and intersectional identity experiences. My work is aimed at transformative healing in wholeness and somatic liberation within the context of acknowledging the ways oppression, racism, colonization, historical and intergenerational trauma, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism, fatphobia and body policing impact and compound how other stressors, wounds, traumas, and life transitions are experienced and how we navigate and find healing.