The way we're taught to live isn't the only way.
Many people feel that something about modern life isn't working, but they don't know what else is possible.
I explore the cultural ideas that shape how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the living world, offering practical tools and fresh perspectives that help people imagine and create lives organised around care, freedom, and collaboration.
Through talks, podcasts, workshops, writing, and Intentional Healing Therapy, I help people ask better questions about what it means to live well.
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Aria is a passionate facilitator, author, and speaker. Her life's work is about finding personal freedom, and ways to decolonise our minds and bodies from oppressive systems to create lasting change.
She is a co-founder of Intentional Healing Therapy (IHT), a deep listening process designed to help people reconnect with their internal compass. Aria holds a BA in Psychology, a Master Certification in the Global Context Integration Method, and certifications in addiction recovery and Nonviolent Communication.
Drawing from experience in kinesiology, wilderness therapy, nature connection, plant medicines, and embodied facilitation, Aria’s approach blends practical tools with philosophical depth and compassionate presence. Over the past decade, Aria has worked with individuals across more than 25 countries through private sessions, workshops, courses, online education, and events. Her work invites people to move beyond conventional frames and into deeper connection, integrity, resilience, and embodied leadership.
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Freya, Canada
Aria's unique blend of energetic work and talk therapy reaches places that traditional approaches never touched for me. In her presence, I feel seen on every level - mind, body, emotion, and the subtle layers beneath language. Our sessions have helped me name truths I didn't know I was carrying, release patterns I thought were immovable, and reconnect with a steadier, more aligned version of myself. Aria holds space with a rare combination of depth, intuition, and practicality. She helps me shift energetically while also giving me tangle insight I can bring back into my daily life. Because of our work together, I feel more resourced and a newfound sense of groundedness. I'm deeply grateful for the impact she has had on my inner world and the way her support continues to ripple through every part of my life. Within this crazy world, I have felt so grateful to have an ally in this way, to lean on and process with.
Andrew, Guatemala
This work, it's timeless, it's spaceless, it's quantum, and it really impacts people.
There was one session where I was crying - I don't even remember about what - and she felt into whether I was truly overcoming. She used her guidance and told me "yes, you are overcoming." Something about this moment was so deep, so powerful, so monumental, that it really felt like someone was with me, present, holding and nurturing me. It was as though the cosmic mother was holding me through a process from the other side of the world. I experienced the felt sense that I was overcoming something I had not been overcoming for so long.
Deniz, Turkey
Aria is where I have been learning the true meaning of safety and truthful relating. She has a remarkable gift for holding a compassionate, loving, and kind space. She encourages me to grow, evolve, and heal by showing me how to change and craft my own reality, rather than waiting for the outside world to change to fit my expectations. I am incredibly grateful for our sessions. Every time, my nervous system receives a reset and balancing. Aria is the perfect person to turn to when emotional reactivity, trauma, or a triggered state blocks clarity. She has the beautiful ability to both gently hold these sensitive parts and firmly invite me out of outdated patterns to liberate myself.