Summary

Revolución interviews Adriana Alejandre a Licensed Trauma Therapist and Speaker from Los Angeles, California. Adriana owns her own bilingual, multicultural practice, EMDR and Trauma Therapy. She specializes in adults who struggle with anxiety, PTSD and traumas like mass shootings, homicide attempts, violent assaults, & other crimes. She has done disaster relief work for Hurricane Harvey, Woolsey Fire and Las Vegas shooting providing Psychological First Aid to survivors in shelters. Adriana’s work and expertise has been featured in USA Today, Buzzfeed, New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among others.

Adriana Alejandre

Adriana Alejandre is a Licensed Trauma Therapist and Speaker from Los Angeles, California. Adriana owns her own bilingual, multicultural practice, EMDR and Trauma Therapy. She specializes in adults who struggle with anxiety, PTSD and traumas like mass shootings, homicide attempts, violent assaults, & other crimes. She has done disaster relief work for Hurricane Harvey, Woolsey Fire and Las Vegas shooting providing Psychological First Aid to survivors in shelters. Adriana’s work and expertise has been featured in USA Today, Buzzfeed, New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among others.

She is also the founder of internationally recognized, Latinx Therapy, the first directory and bilingual podcast that destigmatizes mental health myths & provides education to combat the stigma through technology and in-person services. The inspiration to create Latinx Therapy in 2018 derived from her experience as a single, teen mom with postpartum depression, and her later frustration in finding relatable, relevant resources for her Latinx clients as a therapist. Her podcast has been featured in iTunes’ Top 200, Spotify’s Top 30 Latin shows, Apple Podcasts’, HipLatina and has been heard in over 112 countries. In 2019, she won Hispanizice’s TECLA award for Best Social Good Content award, and in 2020 she won the #YoSoy Instagram and Hispanic Hertiage Foundation Award as one of 5 Latinx influencers of the year creating social change.

Adriana was born and raised in a lower socioeconomic area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. She was raised by a strict Guatemalan mother and a Mexican father who both had many side-hustles since they immigrated from their countries. Adriana looked up to them and grew up knowing that she, too, wanted to be an entrepreneur. Adriana’s mission in the spaces she has established is to create spaces in the real world, and virtual world to spark dialogue about mental health struggled and strengths in the Latinx community. Adriana currently lives in the San Fernando Valley with her husband, 12-year old son, 14-year old step-son and their two dogs.

Latinx Therapy

Latinx Therapy is a multimedia community that destigmatizes mental health myths, provides education to eliminate taboos of therapy, and advocates to combat mental health stigmas on the ground, and in digital spaces. Through values rooted in cultural humility and accessibility, Latinx Therapy provides a national directory of Latinx Therapists, a bilingual podcast, global support groups, and a club for mental health professionals of color to receive support. Founded in 2018 by Adriana Alejandre, trauma therapist & activist, to create more spaces for Latinx Therapists and resources for communities of color. Find more about our work on www.latinxtherapy.com and through our channels @latinxtherapy.