Meet Your Therapist
Devin Xayasomloth, LCSW, SEP in training, CMHC, writer, art enjoyer & peer supporter.
Accepting clients in person in CA and virtually everywhere else.
A little about Devin…
I started life with a clear path. I was told one thing, and desiring another, but I found myself facing loneliness, anger, grief and suffering. These emotions led me on a path of deep curiosity and longing to figure out why I was feeling worthlessness. The pain I couldn’t sort alone brought me to therapy.
Therapy and community care taught me the value of my relationships, strengths, and painful experiences. I realized my pain was interconnected, with people, nature, and systems or environments around me.
As a mixed-race, queer, Asian-Latina, 1st gen kid, I have juggled with tension and confusion about who I should be. My body did not know it was navigating systems of harm until I felt totally disconnected.
Self-awareness seeded into growth and eventually my pain led me to seek my own liberation and cultivated a passion to help others find theirs.
Through my exploration I found alignment, fell in love with visions of decolonization & interconnectedness. Learning to embrace my own traumatic experiences has allowed my weary soul to expand its capacity for the reality of change all around me.
Learn how to alchemize discomfort and painful moments into experiences of expansive growth and deep healing.
I hope to help each of my clients find the inner and natural medicines that have healed and continue to heal me and many others.
Gifts of witness, guidance, and companionship are offered to those open to walking along side on our path to collective liberation.
About my experience
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About my experience *
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BA in Psychology, Azusa Pacific University, CA, 2014
MSW, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, 2018
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LCSW License in CA and NC -
CA License #112035,
NC-C013435Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) - 2021
Somatic Experiencing - Beginning I phase of training currently ongoing, 2021
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National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
Open Path Collective
Inclusive Therapists
Zendo Project
Somatic Experiencing
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ACES (Autism Comprehensive Educational Services), Behavioral Interventionist (Jul 2014 – Jul 2015)
ABC of NCRegistered Behavior Technician (Sep 2015 – Jan 2017)
Daymark Recovery Services Outpatient Human Services (Sep 2018 – Dec 2018)
Monarch NC Youth Crisis Center Behavioral Health (Sep 2018-Jul 2019)
Finding Solutions Inc. Private Group Practice
CriSyS LLC.Mobile Crisis Specialist and Community Policing Crisis Response Team (Apr 2019 – May 2021)
Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego (Sept 2022-Feb 2023)
Family Health Canters of San Diego
(Feb 2023-May 2024)Mixed Healing Collective formerly Mixed Healing Collective PLLC) 2021-present
I help clients facing a variety of issues including anxiety, depression, and trauma.
My specific areas of practice include:
Processing traumatic past experiences including systemic/institutional, childhood, inter/generational
Navigating moral injury & being in spaces that perpetuate violence
Somatics: Feeling & regulating emotions & your nervous system
Dismantling internalized oppression
Decolonization/Deconstruction of mental health, theology, academia, & identity
Ancestral & spiritual interconnectedness, exploration, & healing
Navigating identity & intersectionality
Embracing grief, loss, anger, vulnerability, & joy
More about my positionality…
I identify as gender expansive/genderqueer, pansexual, currently non-disabled & a second generation American of Laos & Mexican Ancestry. I recognize that I have benefitted from multiple privileges while also facing various barriers. I am committed to recognizing harms inflicted by systemic oppression, creating space for ancestral wisdom & transgenerational healing, unpacking and unlearning my own internalized racism and colonial mentality and calling in sacred rest, pleasure, and play. When I'm not engaging healing work, I enjoy spending time with my dogs, partner, & those I call family. I value nature & the lands our ancestors left to us, so I try to spend a lot of time outside where I feel closest to them. I love communing over food, camping in hammocks, & laughing with friends. In my spare time I enjoy practicing yoga, lifting heavy weights, reading, and Netflix.
