In the second episode of 'Building Beyond,' hosts Lee Pera and Erika Casasola welcome Sophia Alejandro-Velásquez, a San Antonio-based psychotherapist and healer.

Sofia shares her unique journey of integrating ancestral wisdom with modern psychotherapy. Discussing her transition from traditional psychotherapy to adopting spiritual and Indigenous healing practices, she explains the establishment of her private practice, House of Healing.

Sofia highlights the importance of listening to ancestral whispers and offers advice for those seeking to connect with their heritage.

This episode delves into the challenges and rewards of walking a spirit-led path, the significance of community, and the continuous process of learning and growth in healing practices.

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Sophia Francesca Alejandro-Velásquez

Owner @ House of Healing

Contributor of wellness, healing, mental balance, and liberation.

Serving San Antonio’s southwest side 78211. Sophia is a licensed psychotherapist and has 20 years experience learning and teaching mental health strategies and rituals to grow and nurture connection to our lineage and ancestral wisdom through movement, meditation, story telling, writing, working with the elements, and play.

Sophia started House of Healing with an intention to increase mental health services for San Antonio’s Southside. To normalize and honor story telling, self exploration, and search for identity.

Sophia lives in Southwest San Antonio with her wife, Andrea, and their basset hound, River.

MA Counseling, UTSA 2010 and BA Psychology, UIW 2005