Liberation Advocate | Educator | Consultant
Dr. L. Xochitl Vallejos
I believe in the radical possibility of a better world
My Journey
It was the crucible of motherhood that forged my revolutionary consciousness. When my child was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart defect, I was thrust into direct confrontation with systems designed to fail us. As I fought for my child’s survival, I witnessed firsthand how the healthcare industrial complex prioritizes profit over healing, how educational systems discard children with medical complexities, and how professional “experts” dismissed my knowledge as a mother and person of color.
This struggle didn’t merely educate me; it set my previous understanding of the world ablaze and transformed me into a radical advocate determined to dismantle these systems of oppression at their roots.
My academic journey culminated in my Ph.D. from Saybrook University, where my dissertation “SHATTERED: A HEURISTIC SELF-SEARCH INQUIRY OF ONE MOTHER’S JOURNEY TO WHOLENESS AFTER A CHILD’S DIAGNOSIS OF A POTENTIALLY FATAL CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT” was awarded the Dissertation with Distinction. This research, born from personal experience, established my commitment to methodology that honors lived experience as a source of profound knowledge.
As a psychologist, counselor educator, and revolutionary, my work exists at the intersection of mental health, liberation, and social transformation.
Health
Transformation
My Approach
My practice emerges from living a full human life. While I bring professional expertise to our work together, I also bring my authentic self—a mother of two children, a practitioner of yoga in the tradition of my South Asian teachers, and a community member committed to collective liberation.
I see psychology not as a neutral practice but as a pathway toward wholeness and transformation. My work is inherently political because I reject the false neutrality of traditional psychological models that reinforce colonial and capitalist structures.
What Guides My Work
My revolutionary approach integrates:
- Critical consciousness that analyzes the sociopolitical roots of personal suffering
- Alternative healing modalities often dismissed by the mainstream as “woo woo”
- Relationship liberation principles that challenge hierarchical and possessive constructs
- Spirituality as resistance against materialist paradigms that fragment our being
- Collective healing practices that build community power and resilience
Working Together
I create spaces where you can:
- Explore your authentic self without judgment
- Connect personal challenges to broader systemic contexts
- Discover holistic practices that support your wellbeing
- Build relationships that nurture rather than constrain
- Imagine and create the world you wish to see
By centering the experiences of people of the global majority, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and those practicing non-traditional relationships, our work together becomes a site of resistance and healing.
Education
- Ph.D. in Psychology, Saybrook University (2015)
- M.A., Regis University (2004)
- B.A., Metro State University (2001)
