VISUAL ARTIST . STORYTELLER . SONGKEEPER SOMATIC EXPRESSIVE ARTS PSYCHOTHERAPIST    ASSOCIATE MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPIST, AMFT

Origin Story

A lover of stories, I’ve worked in the world as a visual and theater artist, professional musician and storyteller studying folklore, mythology and performing sacred music from the African Diaspora and Latin America. It was in the world of psychospirituality, ancestral arts traditions, folk magic, plant medicine and mysticism that I found my home, and a pathway to integrating the realms of ritual, imagination and Spirit into forms of healing.

I hold a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology & Expressive Arts Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies and work as a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Psychotherapist. I specialize in applying arts-based psychotherapy, creative ritual, somatic movement & dance, and ancestral healing arts traditions of storytelling and dreamwork, as forms of medicine for anxiety, depression, trauma, codependency, grief, loss, life transitions and spiritual transformation by cultivating ceremonial healing spaces for individuals and community.

I create ceremonial altars, earth-based sculptures, ritual dance, music and stories as a form of medicine and healing in my own life and in service of community. My work is deeply rooted in building relationship with the non-human and mythological world.

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