The Transpersonal model is an integrative, whole-person approach that draws on elements from different schools of psychological theory and research — as well as a person’s own lived experience — to foster psycho-spiritual well-being.

Transpersonal Psychotherapy invites us to move from ego to eco-consciousness… to go beyond (trans) our individual stories (personal). In this way, we place our healing within a context of interdependence, relationality, and planetary flourishing.

At the same time, Transpersonal Psychotherapy includes an invitation into our particular embodiment, where our very lives and identities are the vehicles for awakening and well-being.

In my work as a professor of Transpersonal Psychotherapy at California Institute of Integral Studies, I bring a Western psychotherapeutic model together with Buddhist Psychology, liberation psychologies, feminist psychotherapy, earth-based and animist traditions, and somatic psychology. The way I approach this modality centers recovering ancestral wisdom lost through colonization and the impacts of capitalism and other systems of oppression.

In the therapy room, this might look like calling on ancestors — known and unknown — to help recover lost wisdom and heal your family lineage. A Transpersonal approach centers your culture and spiritual beliefs, inviting a deeper engagement with aspects of your identity and history.

Learn more about relationality, system awareness, and planetary flourishing beyond human flourishing with Yuria Celidwen, Indigenous scholar of Nahua and Maya lineages from the highlands of Chiapas here.

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