Dr. Andrea Salazar-Nuñez is a psychologist committed to social justice and providing psychotherapy from a liberation lens. She identifies as a Liberation Psychotherapist and a Somatic Abolitionist practitioner. Much of her work centers on racial/systemic trauma and utilizing somatic abolitionism to foster a holistic healing space. She is a first-generation college graduate and the first in her family to complete a graduate level degree. She identifies as Chicana/Mexican-American and embraces her indigenous roots on her journey to reclaim her ancestral wisdom and become a good relative.

Dr. Salazar-Nuñez approaches her work acknowledging and embracing the multicultural/multiracial values that have been taught and modeled for her in her family and community. She has worked in a psychiatric setting, multiple university counseling centers, a community mental health facility, and in private practice. She approaches her work from a multicultural Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) orientation and integrates interpersonal processing and cultural somatics in her work.

Dr. Salazar-Nuñez is a generalist in training and can work with a variety of presenting concerns including anxiety, stress, inter-generational/family conflict, life transitions, trauma (PTSD, sexual assault), grief/loss, relationship concerns, identity exploration, self-esteem, imposter syndrome, or burnout. However, specialties include working with women, people of color/BIPOC, and individuals with marginalized identities (including undocumented). Clinical specialties include racial trauma and fatigue, emotion focused work, women issues, systemic oppression, Chicano/a/x Affirmative Therapy, and incorporating a racial conscious, social justice lens.