“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. 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 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 has been mentored by Rachel Weitz since 2021 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.
In acknowledgement of the more than human teachers who have guided the development of this work: the benevolent guidance of the unseen world, my well ancestors, the Moon, the Wissahickon River and plant allies, with specific gratitude to violet, motherwort, nettle and yarrow who grace the online altar of this website.
With respect and gratitude to the original stewards of Philadelphia the Lenni Lenape. A percentage of the proceeds from The Well Web will be donated to the Lenape Valley Foundation.
“To me, we are all here to create a more beautiful world and everyones gifts are needed now.”
— Ariana Tosatto