Diana Anzaldua is a Social change Activist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Diana is a Trauma-Informed psychotherapist in Austin, Texas. She is also a Trauma-informed Yoga teacher and the founder and owner of Austin Trauma Therapy Center. Diana teaches her clients new skills for coping and adapting to the daily stresses of life through a trauma-resilient lens. This helps trauma survivors live the life they imagined by connecting them to their true authentic self by healing core wounds. Diana and her clinical expertise has been featured in a number of magazines like: Bustle, Hello Giggles, PBS, The BBC, NASW, Social Work Advocacy, Yahoo, and The Atlantic Journal. Diana serves on the Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities, and has received numerous awards for her work in community healing and leadership.
Diana started Austin Trauma Therapy Center through her counseling work when she began to realize so many people continue to be affected by traumatic childhood experiences. Having experienced her own childhood trauma, she began to look at what other trauma treatments were out there for these vulnerable persons.
After learning there wasn’t a one-stop-shop outpatient trauma treatment center where individuals could go to heal from core wounds, she quickly asked herself, “what if there was a place people could go in an outpatient setting, where many trauma treatments could be utilized, to help them feel better and heal with their specific trauma–one place, one center with multiple specializations and practitioners rather than seek out individual therapies with different providers?” At that point, Austin Trauma Therapy Center was born.
Diana understands the tremendous amount of pain that one endures with complex trauma. She has come from a place of suffering and has made it her life-long goal to help others end their suffering by providing them with a safe space and the necessary tools and skills people need to be thrivers of trauma and heal from painful wounds.
Diana identifies as a female Therapist of color, specifically within the Latinx population and is familiar with the generational impacts that people face within these marginalized and oppressed communities.
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 offenders, juvenile re-entry programs, 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, victim and offender, Unaccompanied Minor Youth and other Community-Based treatment programming.
