Karina Maria Counseling

07/23/2023

Meet Our Newest Psychedelic Therapist!

Karina María (she/her/ella) practices as a bilingual (Spanish and English) Psychedelic Therapist and Soul Guide. She has advanced training in Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy from the Center of Medicinal Mindfulness and a Masters degree in Transpersonal Psychology from Naropa University (2013).

Karina María has apprenticed with the Awakening Women Institute and Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. She has over 18 years of experience working in the mental health field in various bilingual settings supporting women, non-binary folks and children. Born and raised in Colombia, she has studied with the Arhuaco natives on the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta and incorporates their earth-based teachings into her work and everyday life.

If you are interested in working with Karina Maria, reach out today for more information: https://hubs.li/Q01Xxj0v0

Karina María (she/her/ella) es una psicóloga licenciada, terapeuta psicodélica y guía espiritual con una maestría en psicología transpersonal de la Universidad de Naropa (2013). Hoy en día lidera, en español y en inglés, terapias psicodélicas en el Center for Medicinal Mindfulness ubicado en Boulder, Colorado.

Karina María también estudió en el Awakening Women Institute y ha sido aprendiz de la cuentista jungiana Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Cuenta con más de 18 años de experiencia apoyando a mujeres, niños y personas no-binarias en varios contextos clínicos y comunitarios. Colombiana de nacimiento, ha pasado tiempo aprendiendo de la sabiduría ancestral de los indígenas arhuacos y koguis de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta e incorpora sus aprendizajes en su vida cotidiana.

Si le interesa en trabajar con Karina Maria, llámenos hoy para obtener más información: https://hubs.li/Q01Xxj0v0

03/23/2023

A women's circle to welcome spring.

Let's rise juntitas, together, alongside Mumma Earth.

learn more and register: https://karinamaria.love/womens-temple-market/sept-womens-temple-fj9pj-9xdpw-rhr7l-2z6x6-zp7d4-p6zyh-p74bg-xyyzr-5gtt9-5rsgp-cnxxw-33zy5-2npzp-hwzbf

10/31/2022

How do you celebrate your ancestors this time of the year? Here’s my altar. ✨✨✨
Food and drink ofrendas, pictures (of the dead only) and flowers to say “thank you, I love you.”

08/18/2021

La mujer jaguar vive dentro de todas nosotras. Salvaje y libre, ronda por la selva conectada con su instinto y su naturaleza.

Su medicina nos recuerda de la delicia de habitar este cuerpo y crear, proteger y disfrutar desde nuestra esencia, menos preocupadas por el “que dirá” y más alineadas con lo que se siente bien. Lo que se siente natural.

El llamado a honrarla se cristaliza con el paso del tiempo y la madurez. Darnos el permiso de movernos con ella y sentir sus ritmos es un regalo. El regalo de sentirnos libres y en casa.

En que momentos la sientes? 🐆

08/10/2021

With a little help of a Goddess 🌻 -

There is a Goddess who knows deep grief. Out of the heartbreaking despair of losing her beloved Osiris and with a wild longing to put his dismembered body back together, she grows a powerful pair of wings to fly through the worlds and accomplish her mission. Her name is Isis, she of a thousand names...

02/04/2021

What skins are you shedding and what new ones are you stepping into? What are you harvesting during this potent threshold?

If you are feeling called to live these questions within a container of beloved women, join our Wild Nourishment program! There are two more spots...will one be yours?

It’s going to be DELICIOUSLY powerful (that’s right, it’s time to claim a new relationship to power).

We begin on Saturday Feb 13!

(Link to page in bio ⬆️⬆️⬆️)

01/20/2021

I’ve been a busy bee, creating something special for you. It started with a prayer to the Great Mother. A longing to be guided into deeper and greater aligned service during these times of tender chaos and sacred pause. 

And then I received a dream. A circle of women, weaving the most colorful of tapestries. Every thread a story, a song, a loss, a longing, a dream. I woke up with a clear knowing that my next offering needed to be a closed container. A sacred space to go deep, deep, deep into ourselves and our our visions and, with the support of other women and the magic of the sacred feminine, give birth to our most aligned and sovereign selves. 

Because the time is now. Because we’re here in these bodies, in this life, for a fleeting momentito. Because the call to rewire and rewrite ourselves out of old, patriarchal conditioning IS here and we know, in our bones, that we are here to do something beautiful rooted in the feminine ways of cooperation, love, intuition and magic. Because we need to do this radical work with other sisters so that we can heal the ways patriarchy still lives in us and be each other’s mirrors and support. Because it’s time to remother the wounded maiden and call each other back home. 

And then… Wild Nourishment was conceived and born (Goddess, I love being a woman!

Wild Nourishment is a 6-month mystical initiation into your feminine magic. It is a visionary, highly interactive space where your visions (aka as next steps both personal and professional) will be sung into life. Think storytelling, ritual, embodiment practices and a community of beloved changemakers.

If you are feeling called to harvest the medicine of these potent threshold times amongst a group of wildly committed women, I want to invite you to seriously consider taking your seat. It’s a big commitment on many levels because we are stepping into BIG work and BIG magic. We are diving in on Saturday, February 13 (number 13 is Goddess day: 13 new moons every year, a day to honor snakes and wings and all things wild).

To learn more and to register, go to link in my bio 🌹

01/15/2021

Super grateful for this beautiful book.

✨Thank you Elizabeth Lesser for writing about herstory and where to go from here.

Pure gold.

12/31/2020

♥️♥️♥️

Here’s Starhawk’s whole prayer, wish, blessing and resolution:

May the isolation, fear and loss we have suffered in this past year make us more appreciative of our friends, loved ones and coworkers, and more aware of how vitally we need community.

May the callousness, irresponsibility and corruption we have seen in powerholders make us appreciate the value of truth, integrity, and caring in our leaders.

May the barrage of lies, disinformation and conspiracy theories that flood the internet inspire us to hone our critical thinking and strengthen our capacity for good judgement.

May the injustices we have witnessed and suffered deepen our commitment to dismantle systems of oppression.

May the fires, floods, hurricanes and disasters of this last year make us more aware that we are subject to nature’s laws, and more determined to bring us into balance.

May this coming year be a turning point—toward a world of more compassion, more caring, more sharing, more integrity, more courage, more health, more regeneration, and more joy in being agents of justice and renewal!

#2021

12/30/2020

A New Year Ritual ✨

1. 2020 Closure ~ wrap up unfinished business. From writing that pending letter, to burning those old letters, to unsubscribing to newsletters/commercial emails that don’t feel nourishing…to donating any clothes and clutter that don’t bring you joy.

2. 2020 Overview ~ on your journal, reflect on the following questions:

* When did you feel most aligned and inspired?

* What parts of yourself did you consciously embody and honor more? 

* Who/what supported you? Who/what challenged you? What did you learn from the challenge/support?

* What and who did you prioritize this year? How do you feel about this? What do you long to change/shift?

* What parts of yourself did not receive enough support and attention?

*What do you know now about yourself that you did not know in early 2020? Celebrate your awakenings.

* If it was a challenging year (like it was for most of us), what was the gift? Look for the opportunity and celebrate the things that your learned about yourself in the process. 2020 was full of strange and unexpected gifts. (*gifts aren’t always pretty or sweet).

3. 2020 gratitude and celebration ~ to expand on the last point, I want to invite you to create a collage of all the things that went well and were beautiful about this last year. Gratitude is a beautiful doorway into rewiring our psyche out of the old, unhelpful ways… shifting your brain chemistry so that you can receive and step into deeper alignment in every aspect of your life (health, financial, relational, family, etc).

4. Dreaming into 2021 ~ journal about the woman you long to be in 2021. Focus on WHO you want to become rather than what you want to get.
This is a key difference in the manifestation process. Who you long to be comes from your embodied wise woman..her desire contains powerful life force, whereas your ego grasps and holds far less power. 🔥

5. Threshold crossing ~ mark a threshold in nature (a line made of stones, the space between 2 trees). Take a deep breath, acknowledge all that 2020 taught you and all that you are leaving behind and...step into the magic of 2021. Do a little dance and receive yourself anew. ✨

12/21/2020

A love letter to your soul✨

I want you to trust yourself so deeply that you can navigate whatever challenges (internal and external) come your way.

I want you to feel at home in your body so that you can belong to yourself fully and wholeheartedly.

I want you to know that you are never alone. You are surrounded by multitudes of beings (seen and unseen) who have your back and love your heart.

I want to see you re-wild yourself and feel, in your strong bones and soft skin, what it is to be free.

I want you to give voice and embody your YES’s and NO’s, completely and unapologetically.

I want you to know that pleasure is your birthright and support you in untangling that big icky lie patriarchy told you about your body being sin.

I want to listen to your longings and remind you that they are doorways into your wholeness.

I want to explore the way your cyclical nature lives in you and encourage you to listen to Her wisdom.

I want to tend to the parts of you that hurt and help you discover the most spectacular inner mother.

I want to listen to your wisdom and mirror it back to you in poetry and art…tenfold.

I want to sit by your side and weave a tapestry made with threads of your divinity and your humanity. I want to celebrate all of you. The light and the shadow. The child and the wise one.

I want to walk by your side on this journey of remembrance. Two feet in. So that we can all be wildly nourished by your magic.

Happy Winter Solstice Woman of wisdom ✨

12/08/2020

Lately, I place this necklace around my neck every morning to celebrate snake; the wild and sacred mother.

Her deliberate and steady pace as she rises and awakens. Her inspiring, ongoing capacity to shed old skin and glide into newness.

I also wear it for Eve, one of our western founding mothers who trusted herself when she trusted the snake and bit the apple...and got into eternal trouble.

Eve, beloved sister whose shame has trickled down through and lives inside our western feminine psyche. I wear it as an offering. A reminder that her disobedience was an act of courage. An unwillingness to remain tame. A desire to step fully into her womanhood and embrace ALL of her humanity.

Snake up wise woman, snake up.

🍎 🐍

And please check out Elizabeth Lesser’s new book, Cassandra Speaks. It’s the book we’ve been waiting for.