Mireya Alejo Marcet, M.A. MFT, is an artist, licensed psychotherapist (MFC#44997), teacher, professional astrologer and expressive arts therapist. She provides services in English and Spanish.
Since 1988, Mireya has been committed to the process of spiritual growth, consciousness exploration and creative expression. She studied Social Anthropology at Universidad Metropolitana in Mexico City, her birth place and home land. Her degree thesis focused on curanderas (traditional women healers) with whom she worked and learned from for almost a decade.
She earned her M.A. in Counseling Psychology with a focus in Expressive Arts Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California in 2002. She also studied Drama Therapy with Armand Volkas at the Living Arts Counseling Center.
Mireya is a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, certified by the Grof Transpersonal Training (GTT) since 1993. She has facilitated groups and individuals in this approach locally and internationally for the past 30 years. She was an active part of the senior GTT training staff since 2002, both in the US, Mexico, Austria & Ukraine. And worked at numerous workshops with Stan Grof, his ex wife Christina, now wife Brigitte, Tav Sparks and others in the transpersonal psychology field.
Mireya has a strong interest in the integration of expanded states of consciousness and spiritual emergence processes. She created an intensive residential module that provides a week experience for breathwork participants and other practitioners interested in deep exploration and transformation titled "The art and practice of integration". Other interests are: birthing the authentic expression of who we are through the creative process, inter-generational and collective/historical trauma, and the transformative and healing power of ritual, the sacred and creativity in individuals and community.
She is the creator of the process "AltarCreation- A Canvas in Movement", a process of working with altar creation & creative installations ceremonially, creatively, therapeutically and in the natural world, both with individuals and groups.
Mireya has over 30 years of experience as a professional astrologer and uses depth astrology as a tool for self awareness, insight and transformation. For more then 20 years, Mireya has worked towards the empowerment of women through the use of the expressive arts, ritual and ceremony. She has lead groups exploring themes like domestic violence, women's lineage and ancestry, young women's initiation passage, the integration of the spiritual journey, women and power, menopause and the mid-life transition.
She is currently an adjunct professor in the Expressive Arts Masters program and a mentor for the Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapies and Research, both at the California for Integral Studies in San Francisco.
She lives in Nevada City, Ca and currently offers online work.
TESTIMONIALS
Mireya is a brilliant artist and educator, one of my favorite humans to collaborate with on planet Earth. Her humility teaches. Her orientation towards all that is authentic and true inspires. Being in her presence is healing. When she speaks, people simply calm down and orient towards centered. Just by showing up, Mireya invites her students/ clients to settle in and discover their depths and edges through the creative process. Carrying an abundant basket of tools and experiences, Mireya offers a nourishing feast for all who choose to be in her good care. ~ Dr. Melissa Michaels
Mireya embodies a felt sense of feminine lineage and legacy that is holy and whole. Her very presence invites others to be in the truth, dignity and the vulnerability of walking this path. It seems to me, that she makes all of those around her feel like her relatives. She has been a true gift to my life. GRACIAS~Sarita