Dr. Xochitl Vallejos

Liberation Psychology   |   Relationship Anarchy

Dr. L. Xochitl Vallejos

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My Journey

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This work begins from a simple premise:


how we love, organize relationships, and distribute power determines the kind of world we are capable of sustaining.

Relationship Anarchy is not presented here as a lifestyle choice or a personal preference. It is an ethical framework for dismantling domination at the level where it is most normalized and least questioned: intimacy, family, and belonging. The same logics that structure empire, patriarchy, racial hierarchy, and extraction are rehearsed daily in how relationships are organized. 

This work treats relationships as infrastructure. Families, partnerships, communities, and chosen kin are the primary sites where people learn obedience, entitlement, care, accountability, and consent. When those sites reproduce hierarchy, the broader social order remains intact. When they are reorganized around autonomy, mutual responsibility, and non-coercion, new social possibilities emerge.

I work from Relationship Anarchy as a political and ethical orientation, informed by liberation psychology and enacted through the LIBERATE Framework. It asks how people learn to share power, repair harm, and remain in relationship without domination.

I do not position myself as separate from this work. As a Latina therapist and educator, my approach is shaped by lived experience inside systems that rely on control while calling it care. My work is grounded in the understanding that liberation is not achieved through ideology alone, but through repeated relational practice that makes different futures livable.

This space is for people who understand that building a new world does not begin with policy alone. It begins with how we structure love, family, responsibility, and belonging. The work here is not about self-optimization or personal healing in isolation. It is about developing the relational capacity required for collective life beyond hierarchy.

Relationship Anarchy, practiced with rigor, becomes a way of participating in that future now.

As a licensed psychotherapist, educator, and revolutionary, I ground my work in relationship anarchy—where healing, freedom, and social transformation come together through the ways we love and connect.

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David St. John
David St. John
Ph.D.; Executive Director, FairSky Foundation
"The only thing that rises above Dr. Vallejos's commitment to diversity and inclusion is her compassion for each and every professional and organization that she works with. Her dedication to justice is inspiring."
Shawn Rubin
Shawn Rubin
PsyD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Vallejos is one of the most powerful voices in psychology and social justice. I have been privileged to learn so much from her professional presentations over the past 7 years. I invite you all to do the same
"Psychology without liberation is merely another form of oppression. Our healing must be revolutionary or it is not healing at all."
Dr. L. Xochitl Vallejos
My Approach

I see relationships as liberation work. My practice is rooted in relationship anarchy: dismantling the hierarchies we inherit in love, family, and community, and building relationships grounded in consent, autonomy, and collective care. This isn’t just therapy—it’s reimagining how we live and love as an act of resistance.

My Relationship Anarchy Approach

My work is rooted in the belief that love is political—that how we relate shapes the world we live in.

Relationship Anarchy offers us tools to resist hierarchy, scarcity, and control, and to practice freedom through our connections.

This approach invites you to:

  • Question the scripts that tell you which bonds “count” and which don’t

  • Reimagine love as abundant rather than scarce

  • Resist ownership and hierarchy in how you connect

  • Honor consent, autonomy, and mutual care as the foundation of every bond

  • See relationships as sites of collective liberation, not private escape

Working Together

In this space, you are invited to:

  • Explore new ways of loving without hierarchy or control

  • Experiment with building chosen family and community on your own terms

  • Nurture relationships that expand rather than confine

  • Align your connections with your deepest values of freedom and justice

  • Imagine love as a practice of liberation—for yourself and for the world