I am a registered social worker with a Master of Social Work from the University of British Columbia (UBC). As a bilingual therapist (Spanish–English) with lived experience across cultures and borders, I support those navigating layered identities, cultural disconnection, and systemic harm—always with respect for your full humanity. Whether you're moving through life transitions, identity exploration, grief, anxiety, or simply seeking a deeper connection with yourself, I’m here to walk alongside you with care and compassion.
How I Practice
My therapeutic approach is trauma-informed and integrative, drawing from humanistic, somatic, psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based practices. I support clients in cultivating emotional awareness, self-compassion, and reconnection with their inner wisdom and values.
What Shapes Me
My work is deeply informed by my bicultural identity and a life lived across cultures and geographies. I was born in Jalisco, Mexico, and have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seoul, Toronto, and now Kelowna, BC, on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Syilx (Okanagan) peoples. These experiences—and the movement between languages, lands, and identities—shape my relational, decolonial, and community-rooted approach to care.
A Rooted and Reclaiming Path
As I continue to reclaim and reconnect with my Mexican Indigenous roots, this personal journey informs how I hold space—for others to remember, reconnect, and reimagine their own wholeness. I believe healing happens not only within the individual, but also in relationship—with ourselves, with land, with community, and with our ancestors.
What I Offer
In addition to individual therapy, I facilitate healing circles and therapeutic groups that integrate yoga, creative expression, land-based practices, and collective care—grounded in the collectivist and earth-honoring traditions of my Mexican roots.
Integrating Body, Spirit, and Rhythm
I am also a certified yoga teacher, trained in Susana Barkataki’s Embody Yoga’s Roots approach, which honors yoga’s origins as a practice of social justice, inclusion, and liberation. Yoga complements my therapeutic work by fostering mind–body connection and nurturing embodied resilience as a pathway to healing.
Menstrual cycle awareness (MCA) is another dimension of my personal life and therapeutic practice, supporting reconnection with the cyclical nature of life as a source of healing, creativity, and inner wisdom. This practice honors the body’s rhythms and invites a deeper connection to ancestral ways of knowing, seasonal living, and embodied care.
Outside the Therapy Room
I have a deep love for travel, learning from different cultures, and connecting with people and places through shared stories and experiences. Outside of therapy, I enjoy painting with watercolors, cooking, spending time in nature, and attending live music and art events that nourish my spirit.
Sobre Patricia Gómez, MSW, RSW (ella):
Formación y Enfoque Terapéutico
Soy trabajadora social registrada con Maestría en Trabajo Social con enfoque clínico por la Universidad de Columbia Británica (UBC). Mi práctica es trauma-informada, culturalmente afirmativa e integra enfoques humanistas, somáticos, psicodinámicos y de atención plena. Acompaño a las personas a cultivar conciencia emocional, autocompasión y a reconectarse con sus valores y su sabiduría interior.
Raíces y Perspectiva Bicultural
Mi forma de acompañamiento nace de una vida entre fronteras y una identidad bicultural atravesando contextos culturales y sistemas que no siempre estuvieron hechos para personas como yo. Nací en Jalisco, México, y he vivido en San Francisco, Seúl, Toronto y ahora sostengo mi práctica en Kelowna, BC, territorio ancestral del pueblo Syilx. Estas experiencias nutren una mirada relacional y comunitaria e interseccional, respetuosa de la complejidad y los saberes de cada persona.
Lo Que Ofrezco
Ofrezco terapia individual, grupos terapéuticos y círculos de sanación que integran yoga, creatividad y conexión con la naturaleza, honrando las formas de cuidado colectivo de mis raíces mexicanas. Atiendo exclusivamente a personas adultas; mi puerta está abierta a quienes busquen un acompañamiento auténtico y digno.
Sabiduría Cíclica e Integración Cuerpo–Mente
También soy maestra certificada de yoga, formada en el enfoque Embody Yoga’s Roots de Susana Barkataki, que honra las raíces del yoga como práctica de justicia social, inclusión y liberación. El yoga complementa mi trabajo terapéutico al cultivar la conexión cuerpo–mente y apoyar el desarrollo de resiliencia encarnada.
La consciencia del ciclo menstrual (MCA) es otra dimensión que forma parte de mi práctica personal y terapéutica, ayudando a reconectar con la naturaleza cíclica de la vida como fuente de sanación, creatividad y sabiduría interior. Esta práctica honra los ritmos del cuerpo y nos invita a recordar formas ancestrales de cuidado, conexión con lo temporal y presencia encarnada.
Fuera del Espacio Terapéutico
En mi tiempo libre disfruto pintar con acuarela, cocinar, pasar tiempo en la naturaleza y asistir a eventos de arte y música en vivo.
