Julissa (she/they)
Julissa Llosa Vite (LCSW, M.Ed) is a licensed clinical social worker, teacher, and artist based in NYC and Albuquerque. She grew up in Callao, Peru, where she learned the power of ancestral healing from her family. Julissa studied Studio Art and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, and Childhood Education and Clinical Social Work at Hunter College.
Julissa is a Master-level Reiki practitioner, a certified Hypnotherapist with the Wellness Institute, and an EMDR practitioner with EMDR Consulting. She has apprenticed under Irma StartSpirit, learning indigenous medicine, and continues her studies in Two-Eyed-Seeing—merging indigenous and Western healing modalities—at the Coyote Institute. She is also a student of alchemy, Peruvian ancestral ceramics, plant medicine, and astrology, guided by her teachers Mercedes Andino and Tatiana Davila in Ecuador.
Julissa is a founding teacher at Harvest Collegiate High School, a public school in Manhattan, where she taught math, art, and science, and led professional development on trauma-informed teaching and racial justice for twelve years. She is currently traveling the world to learn different spiritual healing modalities, centered around meditation, plant medicine, and ancestral ceremony.