About

Hello you.

Born out of both a deep need for, and a love of optimal growth and change, I have spent my life devoted to designing ways to understand and implement change on interpersonal and community levels, through the lens of Movement, Psychology, Meditation and Applied Neuroscience.

As an innovator in the fields of psychotherapy, yoga, neuroplasticity and wellness, I have designed programs that span the range of resiliency training for first responders and inner-city school educators, to holistic relationship and well being immersions for executive leaders in the domains of policy, finance and social impact, in addition to consulting on member experience and product strategy for leading edge wellness startups.

In my experience, in distilling this work into its simplest, most potent form, it all comes down to relationship. Your relationship to your Self (and all the competing parts within you) and your relationship to the things you interact with daily - Family, Lover, Food, Money, Work, Friends… shifting your way of responding in relationship is the 20% that can make the 80% difference in cultivating a life you love.

Interpersonal evolution in service to better relationships, is the seed that sprouts cultural evolution within communities, and organizations. I am passionate about not only thinking outside the box, but remembering that at the leadership level - whether you are the leader of a Fortune 500 company, or engaging in being the boldest type of leader - the unflinching leader of your own life, the only real box is the delta between imagination and Heart-led action.

As a Licensed Psychotherapist, Coach and Mentor, it is my pleasure to support and inspire clients to feel safe enough to relax into their heart so they may take the courageous actions that will grow their capacity for deeper intimacy and emotional resilience, to be the change they want to see in the world. In so doing, We can inspire our personal and professional communities to grow beyond our inherited systems and into the more beautiful world we know is possible.

Love,
Ara

Degrees
Certifications & Projects

BS Psychology from Texas A&M
MA Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University

LPC Licensed Professional Counselor

Certified Neurosculpting® Fellow

Neuroaffective Touch® Practitioner
E~RYT Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher Trainer
NLMM® Non-Linear Movement Method Teacher

Co-Creator of Neurosculpting® Yoga
Co-Producer and Experiential Design Director of HabitHackers 2019

Meditation Lead for the Policy Circle Summit 2021

Additional trainings and areas of specialty include Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, and Psychedelic Integration support