About Diana Anzaldúa, LCSW-S
Transforming Trauma, Reclaiming Power, and Healing Generations
Diana Anzaldúa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Board Approved Supervisor, Doctoral Candidate (2027), Trauma-Informed Psychosomatics Therapist, and Social Change Activist based in Austin, Texas. As the Founder and Owner of Austin Trauma Therapy Center, Diana integrates decolonial healing practices, trauma-informed yoga, and ancestral wisdom to guide survivors toward deep, embodied healing and transformation.
With 16+ years of experience and lived wisdom as a trauma survivor, Diana has helped thousands of individuals reconnect with their authentic selves, heal core wounds, and step into the thriving life they deserve. Her approach blends scientific research, somatic therapy, spiritual integration, and social justice, ensuring that healing is not just individual, but collective.
Decolonizing Mental Health & Centering Healing Justice
Diana is an advocate for trauma-resilient, anti-oppressive, and culturally responsive mental health care. As a First Gen Mestiza, she deeply understands the historical and generational traumas that marginalized communities endure. She is committed to dismantling colonial narratives in therapy and creating healing spaces that are rooted in justice, liberation, and empowerment.
Diana teaches clients practical tools for coping, self-regulation, and resilience while also guiding them to:
Heal generational wounds and break cycles of trauma.
Reclaim their narratives and reconnect with their ancestral wisdom.
Transform suffering into strength through psycho-spiritual trauma alchemy.
Leadership, Advocacy & Community Impact
Beyond her therapeutic practice, Diana is a leader in community mental health reform and equity. She has received numerous awards for her work in healing justice, public service, and leadership and currently serves on multiple boards dedicated to social change, including:
- National Board of the Clinical Social Work Association – Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Ethics Committee focusing on advancement and equity for Social Workers Nationally.
- Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities (2021-2024) – Advocating for accessible mental health care.
- Local Boards for Jolt Action and Pease Park Conservancy – Supporting civic engagement and nature-based healing initiatives.
- National LaRaza Unida Party – Treasurer and Trauma Informed Teaching for Organizational Activism & Grassroots Leadership
- 2021 Leadership Austin & We Thrive Fellow – Advancing public policy and mental health accessibility.
Her clinical expertise and thought leadership have been featured in Bustle, Allure, Hello Giggles, PBS, The BBC, NASW, Social Work Advocacy, Yahoo, and The Atlantic Journal.
The Vision Behind Austin Trauma Therapy Center
Diana founded Austin Trauma Therapy Center in 2019 after recognizing a major gap in trauma-informed outpatient care. Many survivors struggle to find a space that integrates multiple trauma treatments under one roof, rather than seeking disconnected therapies from different providers.
Drawing from her own experiences as a trauma survivor, Diana envisioned a center where people could heal deeply—with access to diverse, evidence-based treatments, all in one place.
“What if there was a place where trauma survivors could receive holistic, integrated care tailored to their unique experiences—one center, one safe space, designed entirely for healing?” – Diana Anzaldua
This vision became a reality with Austin Trauma Therapy Center, which has since provided over 30,000 healing sessions and continues to be a leading trauma-informed, decolonial healing space.
A Personal Mission Rooted in Lived Experience
Diana’s commitment to healing is not just professional—it is deeply personal. She has walked the same road as many of her clients, experiencing firsthand the pain of complex trauma.
She has come from suffering and has transformed it into purpose.
She understands the depths of pain, but also the power of healing.
She has made it her life’s mission to ensure that no one walks this path alone.
Her 1:1 Trauma Alchemy Coaching and Psycho-Spiritual Trauma Therapy offer personalized, transformative guidance, helping clients:
- Move from survival to thriving.
- Heal emotional, spiritual, and ancestral wounds.
- Reconnect with their authentic self and reclaim their inner power.
Healing is Possible. You Are Not Alone.
Diana continues to lead a movement of trauma-informed healing, advocacy, and collective liberation. She is more than a therapist—she is a healer, an activist, and an alchemist of transformation.
“You are not broken. You are transforming.”
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Therapeutic Healing as a Clinical Social Worker
Diana has worked in Residential Treatment Centers with children and Adolescents, as well as Intensive Outpatient Centers with Adults and Adolescents for co-occurring Substance Use Disorders and Mental Illness. Diana has worked with Opiod and other Substance Use Disorders as they relate to Addiction and detoxification. Diana also has experience working with drug court, juvenile re-entry programs, and system impacted people, Adolescent School-Based group programming on Anger Management, Veterans post-combat, LGBTQ+ youth and LGBTQ+ transitioning persons, Child Protective Services Family Cases, Sexual Trauma on both sides; persons harmed and persons causing harm, Unaccompanied Minor Youth and other Community-Based treatment programming.
Diana continues to provide therapy services to persons struggling with symptoms of PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, Substance Abuse, Attachment Disorders, Grief and Loss, Complex Trauma, Mood Disorders and Anger Management. Diana is trained in CARTs, EMDR, NARM, DBT, TF-CBT, Trauma-Informed Yoga, IFS, Attachment-based work and completed Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing Intermediate III, and Resmaa Menakem’s Somatic Abolition. Diana also recently completed the LENS (neurofeedback) training in 2022.
More about Diana Anzaldua as a Trauma Therapist
Having grown up as a teen-mom in a marginalized community and chaotic environment. Diana understands people often struggle with utilizing unhealthy, adaptive coping skills to address symptoms of depression, anxiety, or other mood disorders, and has made it her goal to help others. She can assist you with identifying strategies that will work for you to identify and modify thinking, behaviors, and actions that no longer serve you.
She has a passion for helping clients heal, by incorporating new skills to move past self-defeating patterns. Additionally, Diana also believes that everyone has the capacity to make positive changes and heal. Her motto is, “together, we can work through the barriers that may be preventing you from being the best person you can be and living your best life.”
Diana loves music, and has been a DJ for nearly 20 years, and considers herself to be a creative and tends to incorporate Art and Music into her therapeutic approach. Diana has extensive experience in working with anger and anxiety as a result of complex trauma, adolescents on the Autism spectrum and those diagnosed with Intellectual Disabilities, as well as Developmental trauma.
Diana Anzaldúa short Bio
Diana Anzaldua, a first gen psychosomatics therapist dedicated to embodied trauma alchemy. She is the founder of the award winning health and wellness centers; Austin Trauma Therapy Center & Contigo Wellness. Diana is a social change activist and influential leader in community organized mental health equity and reform in historically marginalized communities. Her vision of decolonized healing and anti-oppressive trauma-informed leadership create safe spaces for other survivors to grow, embrace their resilience, and heal; in-community with others. Diana and her clinical expertise have been featured in a number of magazines like: Allure, The BBC, and The Atlantic Journal. Diana serves on several local and national non-profit boards and has received numerous awards for her work in community healing, public service and leadership. Diana is a graduate of the School of Social Work at the University of Texas in Austin and is professionally licensed in North Carolina, Nevada, and Texas.
