“Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine….Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes.”
- Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
ARIANA TOSATTO, L.P.C., A.T.R.-BC, C.H.T.
Ariana Tosatto is a Mother, Artist, Transpersonal Counselor, Board Certified Art Therapist, Hakomi Certified Therapist and Teacher for the Hakomi Institute north east training region. She regularly teaches and mentors in ongoing supervision the two year comprehensive training cohorts.
She began exploring spirituality at the age of 20, specifically in Buddhist and Animistic lineages. With over a decade of experience and training in somatic and experiential therapy she weaves modern day psychology and trauma informed care with age old wisdom traditions.
She graduated from Naropa University in 2013 with a degree in Transpersonal Counseling and Art Therapy. She has gone on to study the Hakomi method, Sensorimotor psychotherapy, and Brainspotting. She continues on a regular basis to deepen her study of somatic and the nervous system through the work of teachers such as Irene Lyon, Kathy Kain, Peter Levine, and Arielle Schwartz. Her deepest learnings of coming back home to the body after the impacts of personal, generational and collective trauma have come from the direct laboratory of working for well over a decade to regain embodiment herself and having the honor to accompany many clients concurrently in their journey back home to themselves.
She completed a three year training in essential Shamanism with Julie Kramer in 2022. This was a comprehensive, in depth training in the practice of shamanic healing arts through forming a strong partnership with the unseen world.
She was mentored by Rachel Weitz from 2021 to 2023 in animistic healing arts. Their work has focused on ancestral healing and a trauma-informed somatic approach to spiritual healing.
In 2022 she completed a year long apprenticeship and continues to study folk herbalism rooted in wise woman traditions with Kimberly Menocal Geisler.
Her primary teachers have become the master plants themselves, dedicating herself on a path of direct communion with them, through the Mahua-Lopez family lineage of the Shipibo-Conibo curanderismo tradition.
“To me, we are all here to create a more beautiful world and everyones gifts are needed now.”
— Ariana Tosatto