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 Jungian & depth psychology that I found a sense of home and belonging at a time when my heart compass was in need of tuning.

Through my own practices of dreamwork, farming and earth tending, dance, art making and rituals of ancestral remembrance, I have been weaving a path forward, bridging the realms of imagination and Spirit into forms of healing for myself. I now offer what gifts I unearthed from those inner travels to share with you.

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, AMFT 129203. I specialize in applying eco-therapy, arts-based psychotherapy, creative ritual, somatic dance & movement, 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 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.

-Zena Carlota