The Trauma Therapist- Vanessa Pezo, LCSW

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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

12/31/2025

2025 has been a year of many complexities. I've celebrated the release of my first book and the birth of my son. I've enjoyed so many tender moments, safe and comfortable, rocking my baby while nurses or sleeps.
But never far from my mind are the other mothers, parents, people who do not get to live these same experiences. Gaza and Sudan continue to experience unimaginable violence and suffering while families here in my own community live in fear of being separated from loved ones by ICE.
The government treats us Latinxs like we aren't even human. Abducting people on their way to work and banishing them to torture camps like CECOT. No human being should be treated this way. We are up against a dark evil but we will survive it together, in community, and in recognition of the innate worth of every person. I hope living this reality in 2025 illuminates to everyone why you should never side with your oppressors. Your complicity will not protect you. In the end you'll always be the other. Our strength and protection is with eachother.

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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