• Liberation Advocate | Educator | Consultant

    Dr. Vallejos

    Dr. Vallejos
  • Liberation Advocate | Educator | Consultant

    Dr. Vallejos

    Dr. Vallejos
  • Liberation Advocate | Educator | Consultant

    Dr. Vallejos

    Dr. Vallejos

I believe in the radical possibility of a better world

My work exists at the intersection of mental health, liberation, and social transformation.

I believe in a better world one where our individual healing connects to collective liberation.

Lisa
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.

Fighting for my child's survival

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.

The transformation

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

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.