Celina is a Chicana artist, a creative soul, and a wounded healer. She specializes in using creativity and ritual to heal the heart, mind, and spirit. Celina offers Latinx therapy, transpersonal healing, yoga, meditation, and breath work as an LMFT, Board Certified Art Therapist, Curandera Apprentice, and Holistic Healer. She holds a MA in Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy from Phillips Graduate Institute, a BA in Psychology, and BFA in Studio Art from New Mexico State University.

Her creative, spiritual, and academic paths have converged to support an approach to healing that pulls from ancestral knowledge and contemporary psychology to reclaim ancient wisdom in new ways. Her artwork is intimately connected with her personal healing and has been exhibited in galleries and exhibitions in the Los Angeles area. Celina has 20 years of experience in the mental health field, where she began working in residential and in-patient psychiatric facilities. She has been a consultant in private practice for ten years and is the resident Art Therapist for Mujeres de Maiz. She is a co-founder of Indigenous Wellness Collective in Los Angeles and founder of the international therapist community, Not Your Mom’s Therapist, which focuses on radical inclusion and humility by highlighting intersectional psychotherapy and offering burnout support, interdisciplinary mental health and BIPOC ancestral healing community forums. She holds virtual individual therapy sessions in California and offers a community care membership program, as well as holistic healing retreats in California and Mexico.