About

I’m Francesca, artist, mentor, and educator. I offer depth-oriented methods for understanding self and developing creative practice. My approach draws from my professional and personal study of the arts, psychotherapy, and altered states.

I work with people ready to bring form and momentum to their lives through psychedelic integration coaching and mentorship.

I teach courses focused on art-making and reflection as tools for exploration, supporting an accessible, embodied practice of attention, play, and meaning-making. At a deeper level, I teach art as a process of psychological inquiry, offering curious artists and non-artists a structured way to encounter and work with what lies beneath the surface.

I’m the founder and director of the Psychedelic Arts Society, a global online community of contemporary artists and supporters of the arts exploring the bi-directional relationship between altered states and creative practice.

Background

I’ve been fascinated with art and creativity since I took my first drawing class as a teenager. This foundational experience ignited a passion that has intensified over time. I am an experienced educator and facilitator in the arts, working with students of all ages.

My training in concepts related to depth-oriented work began with analytical hypnotherapy with psychotherapy, an approach that uses hypnosis to access unconscious material and examine its influence on present experience.

I later trained in integrative psychotherapy and counselling to work with more complex psychological material. This led me toward relational work with a particular interest in attachment dynamics, including how hypnotherapy can address attachment-related patterns that may not be fully accessible through talking alone.

My interest in attachment naturally extended to couples work. I trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) and couples intensive work. This shapes how I work: addressing both internal patterns and the relational dynamics that form between self and others.

I’m trained in psychedelic-assisted therapy and psychedelic integration and harm reduction. I provide psychedelic integration coaching.

I’m not accepting counselling or psychotherapy clients at this time.

Qualifications‍ ‍

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapeutic Counselling, The National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy

  • Diploma in Analytical Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training

  • Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Training in Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration, Fluence

  • MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Couples with Anne Wagner

  • Psychedelics and Psychoanalysis, Fluence

  • De-Escalating Psychedelic Crisis Certification, PsyCare UK

  • Integrating Psychedelic Experiences, The Centre of Applied Jungian Studies

  • Foundations of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Beckley Academy

Additional Training & Certifications

  • Professional Certificate in Couples Therapy, Institute of Couples Therapy

  • Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Externship, International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)

  • Diploma in Mindfulness Life Coaching, The Centre for Mindfulness

  • Postgraduate Summer Art Program, Syracuse University

Work With Me

All work starts with a consultation, a 50-minute session to talk through a specific issue. From there, we figure out together whether ongoing mentorship or integration work is the right approach.

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