About
I’m Francesca, an artist, guide, 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.
A few highlights:
I work with people through psychedelic integration, mentorship, and consultation, providing a structured space to process experiences and translate insight into action.
I offer individual therapy, couples therapy, and hypnotherapy through my therapy practice. Learn more on my therapy practice site.
I teach courses focused on art-making and reflection to support embodied practices of attention, exploration, creativity, and play. At a deeper level, I teach art as a process of psychological inquiry, offering curious artists and non-artists a way to encounter and work with what lies beneath the surface.
I share Inner Journeys, a free library of guided self-hypnosis and meditation audios for relaxation, exploration, and personal development.
I am an artist, focused on painting and experiential art.
I’m the founder and director of the Psychedelic Arts Society, a global online community of contemporary artists, arts adjacent practitioners, and supporters of the arts exploring the multi-directional relationship between altered states and creative practice.
I share thoughts and updates on Surfacing(on Substack) and in my occasional newsletter.
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.
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
If you’d like to work with me, the first step is to book an intro call.
Please note: Individual therapy, couples therapy, and hypnotherapy are offered through my therapy practice. If you are seeking therapy, learn more and book an intro call on my therapy practice site.
