Chief Visionary & Founder
Katrina Michelle, PhD, LCSW is a holistic psychotherapist currently serving as faculty at Columbia University School of Social Work and The Institute for the Development of Human Arts. Informed by her doctoral research on "spiritual emergence" and her own transcendent experiences, she supports people in exploring, embracing, and integrating the multifaceted human experience.
Katrina currently works for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies as Director of Harm Reduction at the Zendo Project and formally served as the executive director for The American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE), an organization that reflects her desire to evolve mainstream systems so they acknowledge, honor, and include the spiritual component of human development. As co-founder of Emergent Entertainment, a company on a mission to demystify awakening experiences through storytelling and art, Katrina is also working on producing her first film, When Lightning Strikes.
Katrina is motivated toward consciously creating a culture that supports catalyzing our collective highest potential. She is always seeking new adventures in growth and collaborators for creative programming.
You can reach Katrina at katrina@thecuriousspirit.org.
Katrina currently works for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies as Director of Harm Reduction at the Zendo Project and formally served as the executive director for The American Center for the Integration of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (ACISTE), an organization that reflects her desire to evolve mainstream systems so they acknowledge, honor, and include the spiritual component of human development. As co-founder of Emergent Entertainment, a company on a mission to demystify awakening experiences through storytelling and art, Katrina is also working on producing her first film, When Lightning Strikes.
Katrina is motivated toward consciously creating a culture that supports catalyzing our collective highest potential. She is always seeking new adventures in growth and collaborators for creative programming.
You can reach Katrina at katrina@thecuriousspirit.org.
Psychotherapists
Based in Port Jefferson, NY, Jessica Morgan, LMSW earned her Masters in Social Work from Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare in 2018. She also holds a B.A., in Women and Gender Studies from SBU, 2010. Currently she is pursuing a Post-Masters Certificate in Experiential Therapy and is completing a 12 week Mindfulness-Based Eco-therapy course. She uses creative writing, poetry, art, and movement to explore the intersections of one’s internal and external landscapes. Her diverse professional experience in mental health housing, biomedical community organizing, event planning, and the arts has cultivated an unrelenting interest in the ways narrative reflection, mindfulness, nature, and adventure can enhance the life we live.
Jessica's practice centers around the belief that all people possess a natural intuition for health & wholeness. This understanding that we are simultaneously interconnected to others and the natural world gives us a greater sense of purpose among the collective whole. Human beings are a renewable source of love and compassion but oftentimes our empathetic responses in caring for others such as family members, friends, clients, or patients, can lead to feelings of burnout, stress, exhaustion, and inhibit us from caring for ourselves. Jessica specializes in working with clients who find themselves in these helping/healing roles, formally and informally.
Her eclectic style utilizes ecotherapy, narrative & experiential practices. She brings compassion, patience, and creative thinking to assist clients in unlocking life’s challenges. Contact Jessica at (631) 635-6096 and let her join you in your path to self-discovery.
Jessica's practice centers around the belief that all people possess a natural intuition for health & wholeness. This understanding that we are simultaneously interconnected to others and the natural world gives us a greater sense of purpose among the collective whole. Human beings are a renewable source of love and compassion but oftentimes our empathetic responses in caring for others such as family members, friends, clients, or patients, can lead to feelings of burnout, stress, exhaustion, and inhibit us from caring for ourselves. Jessica specializes in working with clients who find themselves in these helping/healing roles, formally and informally.
Her eclectic style utilizes ecotherapy, narrative & experiential practices. She brings compassion, patience, and creative thinking to assist clients in unlocking life’s challenges. Contact Jessica at (631) 635-6096 and let her join you in your path to self-discovery.
Based in Manhattan, Ariana Chemtob uses mindfulness, psychoeducation, magnetism, and shadow work to bring more consciousness to your experience and have you get back in touch with your highest self. Her professional experience working with participants impacted by addictive behaviors, complex PTSD, systemic oppression, and developmental disorders, combined with her personal zest for adventure, introspection, creativity, nature and connection has deepened her desire to help you feel safe enough in your body to find and create magic in your everyday life.
Ariana specializes in working with participants who are feeling “stuck” but can’t exactly figure out why and may be experiencing cognitive dissonance between what they desire out of life verses what they’re experiencing. Her integrative approach incorporates relational, neuroscience, psychodynamic, subconscious reprogramming & narrative frameworks. She brings straightforwardness, sensitivity, humor, and a commitment to truly seeing and hearing you. Through her unrelenting optimism she will help you see that deep soul level healing is attainable. Email Ariana at lightxshadowtherapy@gmail.com to set up an initial consultation call.
Ariana specializes in working with participants who are feeling “stuck” but can’t exactly figure out why and may be experiencing cognitive dissonance between what they desire out of life verses what they’re experiencing. Her integrative approach incorporates relational, neuroscience, psychodynamic, subconscious reprogramming & narrative frameworks. She brings straightforwardness, sensitivity, humor, and a commitment to truly seeing and hearing you. Through her unrelenting optimism she will help you see that deep soul level healing is attainable. Email Ariana at lightxshadowtherapy@gmail.com to set up an initial consultation call.
Visionary Team
Krissy Kilgallen is a trauma-informed yoga teacher and perpetual student of life. She is passionate about integrating the inherent peace and wholeness of our “being” with the ever emergent and evolving “becoming” of ourselves as expressions of our deepest realizations. In this paradox of completeness yet continual change, Krissy loves to walk with others back to the place where the past and the possible meet, in the eternal Now. Her interests have drawn her to explore the intersection of spirituality and mental health, palliative care, the psychology of moral emotions and the cultural emergence of a more holistically integrated society. Krissy has worked at the Center for Spirituality, Dialogue and Service at Northeastern University running mindful writing groups and movement practices, and is serving as a board member for Pensive, a Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts. Krissy is currently working at Center for Mindfulness and Compassion (as part of Cambridge Health Alliance) and the Social and Moral Emotions Lab studying Gratitude in our decision-making processes. Krissy is also a student at Northeastern University studying Psychology with a minor in Sociology. As her career unfolds as part of the ever-changing nature of this path we call life, she hopes to continue to create and express from the space of depth that we all share within us. Krissy has felt called to bring her work to the Curious Spirit to embody this intuitive flow of intelligence that is magnified when shared in a collective space compassion and curiosity. Krissy shares TCS's mission to catalyze her fellow traveler's recognition of their innate worth and endless potential.
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Misha Conaway, M.Ed., joined The Curious Spirit as a way to embrace and cultivate her inner strength. She has dedicated her life to connecting others with nature through her work in education, marketing, and graphic design. She constantly explores the idea of blending spirituality with science, believing that one cannot exist without the other as they are both driven by curiosity and discovering truths. She is the founder of HYHO Marketing & Design, whose mission is to collaborate with and support others in order to make the world a better place.
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Hayley Gardiner, MA received her Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology in Education with a Spirituality, Mind, Body Concentration from Columbia University. Hayley currently works as an Administrative Coordinator at the Center for Spirituality and Health at Mount Sinai Hospital. Previously, she worked at the NYU Center for Cognitive Neurology administering cognitive tests for an Alzheimer’s Disease Research study. She has also facilitated workshops at the Spirituality, Mind, Body Institute at Teacher’s College, Columbia University. Hayley is trained in Reiki II and is training to become a Somatic Coach in September 2020. She wrote her Master’s thesis in spiritual development and mystical experiences, and is passionate about being the bridge for others in helping integrate spiritual emergenc(ies).
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TClare is an Artist, Educator, Spiritual Counselor or Anam Cara, certified Death Doula and Peer Support Specialist. He is a Reiki and Pranic Healing practitioner, Empath, as well as a Visionary. TClare has experiential history with The Dark Night of the Soul and The Hero’s Journey, having spent 30 years in California pursuing and studying Shamanic, Alternative Healing and Grief as a transformative tool. The Death and End of Life experience and his work in Hospice has been his personal springboard to his Spiritual Emergence awakening process and his artwork and writings a documentation and expression of this life altering experience. Today TClare focuses on Grief, Mental Health and Recovery. He is currently working in the Greater New York area as a Peer Support Specialist assisting others like himself, navigate mental health issues, grief and recovery. www.tclare.com
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Mary Cinadr, M.A, brings big picture thinking, spiritual curiosity and a heart-fueled entrepreneurial mind-set to The Curious Spirit (TCS). Bonded by a desire to name the nameless, create dialogue around the mystery of the Divine, and form lasting spiritual community, Mary helped to launch The Curious Spirt via Mary’s branding firm, Campfire Creative. With a deep love for the blank page, the unborn business and the rocky yet exciting roads of paradigm-shifting collectives, Mary joins the TCS team in welcoming and uniting seekers of all kinds, and believes that we are all, as Ram Dass said, “walking each other home." Mary is also the founder of Circle of Writers, where she helps people and groups uncover and share their personal stories, find their bravest voice, and explore their inner world through memoir.
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Lisa Drennan is passionate about blending personal growth, spiritual development, and music together in heart-centered, healing, and fun ways. She brings to TCS a passion for conscious connection, heart-centered vulnerability, and Unity Consciousness. A frequent musical contributor to The Curious Spirit's Women's Soul Circles, Lisa creates healing mantras to assist us in tuning our energy fields to our soul's highest vibrations. Each mantra is created as an inspirational reminder of just how powerful, miraculous, and lovable we all are. It is Lisa’s intention that we become as passionate about love as we have been trained to be about fear. As we do so there will be a tipping point in the collective consciousness of our world. And so it is! Follow Lisa's Mantras for the Soul on Facebook and Soundcloud!
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