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Hello, my name is Chakriya but everyone calls me Chatti. I am a holistic wellness practitioner based in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. I am also a registered art therapist and licensed pyschotherapist. I offer transformative and energetic work to courageous souls like you who are looking to find stillness in their busy lives and heal emotional wounds.

Like so many, I spent a long time struggling to find my voice until the creative arts found me and became my greatest and most loyal friend. Art-making allows me to transmute my pain into something beautiful and freeing. It has quieted the voice that says, “You’re not enough” and instead unapologetically shouts off the roof, “You are beautiful as you are!” Sound healing and vibrational work has been a wonderful addition to my holistic toolbox and feed my love of science and what I call *Earth Magick. I began my formal sound healing training in 2018 but my interest in sound healing and energy work started long before that. My 8th grade science project took me on a deep dive observing how different music affected the growth of plants (well, pinto beans anyway). Much like plants, our own bodies and minds respond to music and sound. I feel fortunate to bring that healing energy work to you.

*Earth’s Magick is the profound wonder of things that occurs naturally in this world like narwals (have you studied narwals?!) but also phenomenons that we can’t necessarily quantify or need explained by science.

My family came to the US as refugees after enduring a four year genocide in Cambodia. I grew up in California and graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Sociology with minors in Women’s Studies and Anthropology. My undergraduate studies cultivated a lifetime of curiosity and openness to different cultures and subcultures that exist in the world. I also hold a Master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with emphasis in Art Therapy from Naropa University. In 2010, I heard my calling and moved to Cambodia, my ancestral homeland, to work for a healing arts organization. There I counseled adolescents dealing with issues such as trauma, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, poverty, sex trafficking, and forced land evictions. In private practice I also worked with expatriates who were experiencing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, isolation, and difficulties with life transitions. My experience in Cambodia taught me that art knows no boundaries; it changes those it touches and creates connection.

Today, I am dedicated to working in private practice with adults aged 21 and up, using my experiences and insights to support and guide individuals on their path to healing and self-discovery.

If there is any wisdom I can impart to you it is that the light cannot exist without the dark. It is the existence of the dark that makes you notice and appreciate the light. Secondly, the best, most profound moments of my life are not based on some sort of perfection but rather in letting go and sinking in. In my personal life, I am on my own journey of healing my ancestral lines and generational trauma. The work is hard but I try to reconstruct destructive energy into creative ones-I paint, I knit, I dance, I grow flowers, and I sit in nature. I refuse to let life dim my childlike curiosity and I hope the same is true for you. Yes, my friend, I know that sometimes life feels daunting but as the expression goes the darker the night sky, the brighter the stars.

REGISTERED ART THERAPIST

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