Background
Vee is a bilingual Spanish-speaking queer, trans, Indigenous, and neurodiverse licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) who is currently receiving supervision toward their clinical licensure (LCSW). They are a child of immigrant parents who belong to the indigenous communities Pame (Huasteca Region in San Luis Potosi, Mexico) and Tepehuan (Durango, Mexico). They were raised by their grandparents, tias y tios in their Pame community in Mexico through early childhood. They grew up and live in Houston, TX, and understand carrying multiple identities while assimilating to and challenging American culture, expectations, and norms.Vee received their master's degree from the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and completed a macro concentration and focused learning opportunity in Abolition. Working with Vee, you'll aim to co-create a space rooted in authenticity, curiosity, creativity, collectivism, and compassion while integrating cognitive and somatic modalities. Vee believes in meeting clients where they are, that our mental health is not isolated, and that a deeper understanding of the self, community, and environmental systems can empower us all in navigating life.
Training
Vee's social work practice is anti-oppressive, sex-positive, liberatory, and polyamorous-affirming. It includes supporting youth and adults from immigrant and refugee communities, LGBTQIA+ folks, those previously trafficked and or incarcerated, victims of religious trauma, domestic and partner violence survivors, and sex workers.
Vee uses ancestral practices and wisdom to offer a holistic therapeutic style that includes; somatic experiencing, mindfulness-based, ecotherapy (connecting with nature), story-telling, Internal Family Systems (IFS) "Parts Work", strengths-based, cognitive behavioral therapy, and therapeutic art & sound facilitation. Vee is available for individual therapy for youth (15+) and young adults (24-35) who are experiencing LGBTQIA+ Issues, generational & family trauma, immigration barriers, depression, and anxiety; and finds joy in supporting those who are reconnecting with their Indigenous roots, exploring or questioning intersections of gender & sexuality, in the kink community, navigating relationship boundaries & styles, and divesting from white supremacy culture.