Our Presenters

(in order of appearance)

Samantha Bell, LCMHC (she/her)

Samantha is an Intuitive, Healer, Psychotherapist and Coach. She comes from a southern Baptist upbringing where her gifts were dulled at an early age because she was “imagining things.” Suffering through generational and other traumas to find her voice took years, but she finally embraced her true self. The years of struggle, sacrifice, grit and darkness that she endured led her to heal herself. This path of healing came after the death of her father, but the real test came during her dark knight of the soul era when the healer needed healing. 

Samantha’s personal therapy journey led her to holistic methods which led her to reiki and the rest was history. Her gifts resurfaced and magnified, and spirit pushed her out of her comfort zone to use them within her practice. Her sessions focus on creating a sacred space for individuals to be themselves holistically, spiritually and mentally. Samantha invites spirit into sessions for clients to be able to release things that no longer serve them. Her approach is collaborative and results in healing on a subconscious and conscious level. 

Samantha combines educational tools from the world of psychology such as: Mindfulness, CBT, Somatic Therapy, and Family Systems with holistic and spiritual methods like: Reiki and Energy Healing, Chakra clearing, EFT Tapping, Hypnotherapy, Herbalism, Sound Healing and Oracle Readings.  Her passions are trauma, generational trauma, ancestral healing, reading akashic records and past lives, past life regression, hypnotherapy, shadow work, mirror work, cord cutting, and boundaries.

Michelle Jaquish, LCSW (she/her)

Michelle has been a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) since October of 2021 when she opened her private practice, Banshee Therapy Services. She obtained her Master’s of Social Work in 2016 and a Bachelor’s of Arts in 2011 from the University of Washington in Seattle. During her time as a graduate student, she received a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship in the Southeast Asian Studies department, which allowed me to learn my mother’s native language of Tagalog to prepare for a human right’s trip to the Philippines.

Since obtaining her MSW and opening her practice, she has found a niche with incorporating tarot into her therapy practice, facilitating and co-creating therapeutic healing spaces that allow for all aspects of a client’s identity and experience. She has been featured on many podcasts such as Reclaiming Soul Work, Hot Girls Healing, and Life Activated to discuss how she works at the margins and intersections of spirituality and social work practice. In addition to therapy work, Michelle also is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Washington School of Social Work where she obtained her masters.

Tina Vitolo-Campos, LCSW (she/her)

Dr. Tina Vitolo, “The Black Sheep Therapist,” is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with nearly 20 years of experience in the mental health field. She holds a Doctorate in Social Work and her unique approach integrates holistic practices such as Human Design, Crystal Healing, and Intuitive Practices with established clinical theories. Driven by her own challenges within the traditional therapy framework, Dr. Vitolo created a comprehensive framework to blend clinical practice with unconventional modalities, ensuring ethical and regulatory compliance.

Dr. Vitolo leads The Black Sheep Therapist platform, where she coaches unconventional therapists on integrating holistic interventions into their practice. Her Innovative Practitioner Accelerator Program equips therapists with the tools to achieve personal and professional freedom while aligning their unique therapeutic styles with evidence-based practices. Passionate about authenticity and holistic healing, Dr. Vitolo’s work fosters a supportive community for therapists seeking to redefine their clinical practice and enhance their clients’ healing experiences.

Zumrad Masar, LCSW (she/her)

Zumrad is a clinical social worker, addiction specialist, and certified supervisor with over 15 years of experience. She is the owner of Art of Wellness, a thriving group practice dedicated to fostering healthy relationships and the mind-body connection. Fluent in multiple languages and possessing a diverse educational background, Zumrad brings a unique and integrative approach to her work.

Her special passion is dream work, which she approaches from both Western and non-Western perspectives. Zumrad has studied Jungian Analysis and incorporates insights from Toltec, Bon Buddhist, and Sufi traditions. She continues to explore dreams through multicultural and unconventional lenses, working with animal spirits, elementals, and other spiritual elements. Zumrad also utilizes storytelling as a profound tool for delving deeper into the psyche, making her approach truly holistic and inclusive.

Dreya Blume, LCSW (she/her)

Dreya Blume is an author, educator, retreat facilitator and psychotherapist who lives in Durham, North Carolina. She started her therapy practice in 2004, the same year she fell in love with tarot. Prior to becoming a social worker, Dreya taught English in places such as Japan, Australia, Thailand and Hawaii. She loves teaching, and currently, when not working on her latest book, spends most of her time offering continuing education trainings to fellow clinicians.

Dreya is the author of “The Tarot Activity Book: A Collection of Creative and Therapeutic Ideas for the Cards,” “Journaling the Tarot,” and “Tarot for Transformation” (all under her old name, Andy Matzner), as well as “Doodling the Tarot,” “A Tarot Shadow Work Journal,” and “A Life of Meaning and Purpose: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guided Journal for Exploring Beliefs and Connecting with Values” (as Dreya).

You can learn more about Dreya’s offerings here.

Amy Allemana, MSW, LCSW (she/her)

Amy is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago's Jungian Psychotherapy Program.  Her area of interest is the unconscious and partnering with women at midlife to rediscover their spiritual purpose. She opened Butterfly Medicine Counseling after encountering her own mid-life journey without supportive resources.

Amy found relief in the healing arts of astrology, dreams and tarot and was inspired to help mid-life women navigate their bodily experience of perimenopause/menopause with a lens that incorporates mythology, symbols, metaphor and archetypes to re-imagine the importance of aging women. She is currently studying at The HERD Institute to help connect women to myth, horses and nature through Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy. Amy lives in Asheville, NC with her astrologer husband Brian, cosmic cats Astro and Cosmo and puppy, Pacha. 

Ca’ren Hudson, LMFT (she/her)

Ca’ren is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, certified Usui Reiki practitioner, and certified yoga teacher at the 200 hour level currently residing in Raleigh, NC. A full spectrum healer, Ca’ren uses her intuitive gifts and areas of expertise to lead others through transformation and towards inner harmony and empowerment. Ca’ren is the owner of Flowering Heart Wellness, a hub of healing that offers various services such as Meet Your Soul readings, Reiki sessions and Systemic Pleasure consultations to help clients explore and find their most authentic selves.

Ca’ren currently sees clients at a group practice in Cary, NC and can be found in IG @flowering_heart_wellness and on TikTok @floweringheartwellness.

Ca’ren finds pleasure in being a foodie, spending time talking to trees, and moving her body with the wind spirits.

Sonia Fregoso, MA, LMFT (she/her)

Sonia is a Xicana licensed psychotherapist and intuitive healer. Beyond her education, she continues to study grief & loss, depth psychology, transpersonal psychology, and somatic experiencing. Sonia combines her expertise in psychology with elements of ancestral, spiritual, and energetic healing practices. Her focus is on teaching people how to access their energy and intuition to create lasting change in their mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health. Her work is trauma-sensitive, anti-oppressive, and rooted in ancestral knowledge.

Celina Jacques, LMFT (she/her)

Celina is a Chicana artist and healer who specializes in using creativity and ritual for healing the heart, mind, and spirit.  Celina offers Latinx therapy, transpersonal healing, yoga, meditation, and breath work as a LMFT, Art Therapist, Curandera Apprentice, and Holistic Healer. Her creative, spiritual, and academic paths have converged to support an approach to healing that pulls from creativity, ancestral knowledge and contemporary psychology to reclaim ancient wisdom in new ways.

Celina is the founder of the international therapist community on Facebook called Not Your Mom’s Therapist, which focuses on radical inclusion and humility by highlighting intersectional psychotherapy offering burnout support, interdisciplinary mental health, and BIPOC ancestral healing community forums. She holds virtual individual therapy sessions in California, offers a community care membership program, as well as annual holistic wellness retreats in Mexico and California.

Shannon Knight, LMHC (she/her)

Shannon Knight is a queer psychotherapist and podcaster. Shannon received her B.A. in Applied Clinical Psychology from the Florida Institute of Technology and her M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Johns Hopkins University. Shannon hosts The Tarot Diagnosis, a podcast that highlights the intersection of mental health and the practice of tarot and is the founder of The Symposium - a psychology inspired tarot community.

Joyous Williams, LPCC (she/her)

Joyous D. Williams, LPCC-S, ATR-BC, CCTP Joyous (“Joy”) Williams, is a lifelong mixed-media artist who received a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology & Expressive Art Therapy from Prescott College in 2010 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from the College of Charleston in 2006. She believes that the primary function of art-making is personal reflection, expression and growth. She utilizes the therapeutic capacity of the arts in her own life and as the Clinical Director of her practice, Site Supervisor and Therapist with a person-centered, brain-based trauma-integrated approach, empowering others to do the same.

As a mani-gen 5/1, a sparktype Maven & Advisor, with a Gemini chiron and North Node, Joy loves to learn everything there is to learn about tools to help heal from trauma, whether single incident or intergenerational. She then loves to share that knowledge and power with others! Joy considers herself a “witchy community builder” after magically founding “Witchy Therapists of Facebook” in 2021. Joy is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, with Training Designation (LPCC-S) in the state of Ohio, a Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP). LPAT pending.

Carmen Jimenez-Pride, LCSW (she/her)

Carmen Jimenez-Pride is the founder and Executive Director of Outspoken Counseling and Consulting. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Certified EMDR Therapist, Internal Family Systems Therapist, IFS clinical consultant and IFS Assistant Trainer, Registered Yoga Teacher, Registered Children Yoga Teacher and Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator. She is also a certified LEGO® Serious Play® Facilitator and International Credentialed Sandtray Therapist.

Carmen is the developer of Diversity in Play Therapy Inc.; and creator/organizer of the Diversity in Play Therapy Summit. She is the 2021 Association for Play Therapy Emerging Leader award winner and President of the South Carolina Association for Play Therapy Carmen received her Bachelor of Social Work with a certificate in Child Protective Services from Benedict College. She was then accepted into the advanced standing program at the University of South Carolina earning a Master of Social Work with a focus on communities and organizations.

Carmen’s passion is youth/ children, and she has dedicated herself not only to enriching the lives of children, but also providing the tools and curriculum for clinicians to ensure her goal to reach others has an even farther span in society. Carmen is experienced in clinical treatment of children, adolescents and adults with culturally diverse backgrounds addressing a wide range of concerns. Carmen’s career in the mental health field spans more than 15 years. Carmen has extensive training in sandtray, play therapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, AUTplay Therapy, Internal Family Systems and Adlerian Play Therapy. Her experience as a therapist, consultant, trainer, educator, coach and author encompass Carmen’s approach to practice, which is “Together We Will Grow.”

Julia Corley, PLLC

Julia Corley (she/her) M.A., LCMHC-A, LMBT has worked in the healing arts since 1998, first as a massage therapist with a passion for the mind/body connection and now as a somatic psychotherapist, international trainer, and facilitator. She is a Certified Trainer and Therapist of Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy as well as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.  

She is a firm believer in the transformative power of ritual, pleasure, beauty, mindful awareness, silence, rest, space, connection, earth, air, water, fire, kindness, time in nature, letting go of what’s no longer needed, belly laughs, and a good cry. She finds great delight in the reverent and the irreverent. She views her work not only as a profession but also as a path of discovery and whole-heartedness.

Sequoya Hayes, LSW, RYT (she/her)

Sequoya is a multi-state licensed social worker, yoga and energy practitioner, podcaster and multidisciplinary artist. Sequoya explores the intersections of black queer feminism across the intersections. She brings her art based therapeutic work to collective spaces through counseling with creatives and business owners on integration, and consulting with executive directors, nonprofits, and community offerings of personal/professional development on the dynamics and impacts of power. She consults nationally, and creates culturally rooted experiences for wellness and organizational culture shifts, through her business Red Linen Moon Wellness and Consulting. Follow on IG @rlmoonwellness and @sequoya_communit

Biany Perez, LSW, M.Ed (she/they)

Biany is a Bronx-born Queer Black Latinx holistic psychotherapist, intuitive somatic coach, wellness consultant, tarot nerd, energy practitioner and podcaster. Biany works with high achievers and survivors, both individually and in groups, guiding them on their journey to cultivate compassion, curiosity, and self-awareness so that they can thrive in love and life. They are the co-host of the heart centered podcast for spiritual practitioners and counselors: Reclaiming Soul Work Podcast. Check them out at www.bianyperez.com or Instagram @embodymagic.