Sabrina Santa Clara is a licensed psychotherapist, a certified IFS therapist and approved IFS consultant, and faculty at Fluence, a psychedelic education organization approved for Colorado. This page gathers her credentials and the lineages that formed her, for colleagues, hosts and anyone who wants the details.
Brief bio
Sabrina Santa Clara is an elder and spiritual doula, a medicine weaver, and a licensed psychotherapist who works beyond the limits of the field. She holds a Master of Arts in Somatic Counseling Psychotherapy from Naropa University, with a dual emphasis in body psychotherapy and dance/movement therapy, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from San Francisco State University. She is a Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist and an approved IFS Consultant, and developed her own specialty in Neoshamanic IFS.
A specialist in psychotherapeutic touch, she trains clinicians in the ethical use of touch in therapy and has developed touch trainings for several psychedelic organizations, including Fluence and Journey Clinical. Before her clinical career she worked as a massage therapist and yoga instructor, a meditation teacher and a human resources director. She continues to teach somatic, nondual and integrated meditation. She guides founders and leaders, practitioners, and people on a spiritual path through the thresholds of their lives, online worldwide and from Longmont, Colorado. She is a member of Soul Full Bloom™, an entheogenic church and spiritual community. Her book, Becoming Audaciously Human, is in progress.
Education
- Master of Arts, Somatic Counseling Psychotherapy, Naropa University: dual emphasis in body psychotherapy and dance/movement therapy
- Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, San Francisco State University: emphasis in human sexuality and Spanish; certificate in human resource management
Licenses and certifications
- Licensed Professional Counselor, Colorado
- Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist (Level 3)
- Approved Internal Family Systems Consultant
- Certified Psychedelic Integration Therapist, Fluence
- Colorado Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator, licensure pathway
- Dance/Movement Therapist
- Certified Authentic Relating Facilitator
- Embodied Nondual Meditation Instructor
- Meaning-Centered Executive Wholeness Coach
- Holistic Health Practitioner
- Yoga Instructor
- Massage Therapist (former practice)
- Member, Soul Full Bloom™, an entheogenic church and spiritual community
Teaching and speaking
- Faculty, Fluence: psilocybin-assisted therapy and psychotherapeutic touch
- Trainer of clinicians and health providers in psychotherapeutic touch
- Speaks frequently on psychedelic integration, Neoshamanic IFS and the use of touch in therapy
- Podcast guest and presenter at several conferences, including the IFS Conference and Touch with Substance conferences
- Speaks at private gatherings and for organizations by invitation
Influences
I have been formed by many teachers and many traditions, and I carry each of them into the room with me.
- Internal Family Systems
- Hakomi body psychotherapy
- Somatic and contemplative psychology
- Buddhist psychology and nondual meditation
- Neoshamanic practice, ceremony and ritual
- Authentic Relating and Circling
- Dance, movement and bodywork
- Expanded states of consciousness practices such as medicine work, Authentic Movement, Butoh, and tea and cacao ceremony
- The pastors, monks, rabbis and wise women and men who taught me along the way
- And always the land and its animate forces, as well as the guides and ancestors that travel with me
Also
- Bilingual in Spanish and English
- Culturally mixed
- Ceremonialist and ritualist
- Writer, poet and mixed media artist
Publications
Articles, papers and other professional writing by Sabrina live on her Publications page.