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The Trauma Therapist- Vanessa Pezo, LCSW

Vanessa Pezo, LCSW is a licensed therapist, trauma specialist, and master trainer providing online mental health services in CA

10/07/2025

✨ LATINX/E HERITAGE MONTH BOOK GIVEAWAY✨️

In honor of Latinx/e Heritage Month one winner will win one copy of The Latinx Guide to Liberation AND one copy of Q***r Latine Heroes: 25 Changemakers from Latin America and the U.S. from History and Today.

To enter the giveaway:

🔸️Follow and

🔸️Comment your own Latinx/e Hero

🔸️Must be 18+ and live in the US

Winner will be announced on the last day of Latinx/e Heritage Month, October 15th, at 6pm PST

The Latinx Guide to Liberation, written by Vanessa Pezo, LCSW is a pioneering guide on trauma within the Latinx community that challenges stereotypes, unravels the shame-based narratives around Latinx mental health, and refocuses the conversation around cultural empowerment, awareness, and transformation.

Q***r Latine Heroes: 25 Changemakers from Latin America and the U.S. from History and Today, written by Sofia Aguilar, highlights the creativity and activism of q***r Latine heroes that have changed the world. This beautifully illustrated book will help children ages 5+ discover the beauty and richness of Latine history - and inspire them to live and love as they choose!

10/01/2025

If you would like to go on the sacred journey of trauma recovery, I have some availability opening up in my practice this month. I specialize in complex trauma, and am EMDR certified. Contact me to schedule a free consultation. You don't have to do this alone.

https://www.longbeachtraumatherapy.com/contact

09/25/2025

Latinx Heritage Month is a time to come together and celebrate our rich and vibrant culture, honor our history, and acknowledge the contributions that Latinx individuals have made to this country. It's a month to reflect on our heritage, our traditions, and our values that have been passed down from generation to generation. It is also a time to recognize all that we have survived as a community from conquest to on-going colonization and neocolonization, discrimination and exploitation. I invite you to join me in this recognition by checking out some of the books that have opened my eyes to what it means to be Latino/a/x in the United States. These books show how our place in this current society came to be, how social factors influence our psyches, and how that has impacted our emotional and spiritual well-being over the generations. Please join in me in learning this history by checking out some of these books.

08/23/2025

I've heard many clients come into session recently being self-critical about feeling dysregulated, activated, hypervigilant, or disconnected. Sometimes we have an expectation that we should be calm and regulated all of the time, but this isn't how a healthy nervous system works. Our nervous systems shift us into states of activation or deactivation based on what it perceives from our environment. Today the threats against marginalized people are increasing and real. Its normal to feel a response to that. This is our nervous system trying to keep us safe and protect us.

07/01/2025

Thank you to Anaiah Davis with for including my book The Latinx Guide to Liberation: Healing from Historical, Generational, and Individual Trauma in their Three to Read showcase. It is an honor to be chosen, and to have the book shared as one of three Profound and Informative Self-Help Books for BIPOC Healing.

If you haven't already make sure to get your copy wherever books are sold including at the link in my bio.

If you have already purchased Mil Gracias Por Tu Apoyo! If you found this book to be helpful or healing make sure to leave a five star review wherever you purchased so others who can benefit from this book. Now more than ever we need to learn the truth of the Latinx experience and gain tools for healing.

https://bookstr.com/list/3-profound-and-informative-self-help-books-for-bipoc-healing/

06/14/2025

No Kings.
No Dictators.
No ICE.
No Trump.

06/12/2025

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Updated info on how to support immigrant communities at this time.

06/08/2025

LA is not going to back down.
We belong here. ICE doesn't.

05/26/2025

The United States practice of militarism and imperialism has created generation after generation of trauma here in the U.S. and around the world. This Memorial Day, let us remember and mourn all victims of the United States and call for an end to war, occupation, and genocide. Violence will never create a peaceful and just world. It merely creates an endless ripple effect that eventually comes back home.

05/10/2025

Feliz Dia de las Madres
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Happy Mother's Day
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To everyone who loves, nurtures, supports, grows, and pours into others.

05/02/2025

Some personal news- my baby arrived safely last week. I am enjoying my first week of motherhood, and all the wonders of newborn life. I'm trying to be present and soak it all in because I know this phase will pass in the blink of an eye.

I will be taking time off to enjoy this new life phase although I'm sure I'll pop in to social media here and there. This leave will be the longest I've gone without seeing clients in about 12 years. I miss it a lot already but I'm so grateful to all of the people I work with who were so understanding and supportive. Also a huge thank you to my fellow therapists and who have made themselves available to my clients while I'm away.

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04/28/2025

Toxic shame was important to share about considering April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Please check out my new article on Hip Latina to learn more about the connection between sexual violence, toxic shame, and how to begin to heal. ❤️

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Sexual abuse in the Latinx community is more pervasive than we are usually willing to talk about. This silence leaves Latina survivors to navigate the complicated impacts of sexual violence alone. Research studies show that sexual abuse, assault, and harassment are common experiences for women in the United States. 81 percent of women in the U.S. report experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime. For Latinas, 1 in 5 reported being r***d in their lifetime and 1 in 3 reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact. One study on childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among Latinas found that the average age Latinas experienced CSA was at only 11 years old. If you have experienced sexual abuse or violence, you are not alone. It was not your fault, and you are not damaged.⁠
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Story by Vanessa Pezo ⁠
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