Claudia barfoot

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ABOUT me

The Land of Possible is the home of my life's work — an integration of everything I have studied, been initiated into, and lived through over two decades of work at the intersection of psychology, dreamwork, ceremony, science and earth-based wisdom.

I work with people who have had something crack open — in ceremony, in a dream, in grief, in the kind of breakdown that is secretly a breakthrough, and who want to understand what opened, and how to live from it. I offer this through one-on-one sessions, group programs, retreats, and soon through live and digital teachings.

Throughout 20 year of direct work as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and trauma informed mental health professional, I have guided clients to honor their truth, to allow all of who they are to belong, and to let their self discovery transform their lives with integrity, and the lives of those around them. With the same gravitas, her 25 years of exploration, apprenticeship and practice of ancestral ways of knowing, healing, and the ethical use of natural medicine, has provided me with enough roadmaps to help others navigate their internal world and its depths, their relationship to the outer world, and enhance their spiritual lives. 

WHAT I BELIEVE

I believe the unseen is real — not as metaphor, not as pathology, but as a genuine territory of human experience with its own intelligence, its own language, and its own demands. We are connected to it, as much as to everything else we can see, and what we call the web of life or life force, is vast, diverse and intelligent.

The Land of Possible is here to help you reconnect to what sustains your life, feeds it, and influences your decision. It guides you towards a sovereign but participatory life.

education

Western

  • Doctorate Degree in Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice from Centro ELEIA, Actividades Psicologicas A.C. in Mexico City 

  • Master’s in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Centro ELEIA, Actividades Psicologicas A.C. in Mexico City 

  • Master's in Mental Health Counseling & Wellness from NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development

  • Certified Psychedelic Informed Practitioner: Preparation, Harm Reduction & Integration by Vital (Psychedelics Today)

  • Accelerated Psychedelic Facilitator Training Program by InnerTrek

  • Certificate of Completion in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders from PSI-Postpartum Support International​ 

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Immersion

ancestral & Earth based

  • Animist Psychology, Foundations of Ritual, and Ancestral Lineage Healing by Dr. Daniel Foor from Ancestral Medicine

  • Apprenticed and Initiated as a Medicine Woman by Irma Starspirit Turtle Woman 

  • Trained in Being in Dreaming by Irma Starspirit Turtle Woman

  • Dream Interpretation by the Mamos & Sagas of La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia

  • Ceremonial Participation with the Wixarika community of La Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico & the Mazatec people of Oaxaca, Mexico.

  • Certified Sound Healer and Ceremonialist by Sasha Kovalchick

  • Training in Canto Energético by Citlalli García