WELCOME TO
the land of possible
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Claudia Barfoot is an Integrative Mental Health Specialist, with a Doctorate degree in Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice, and a Master’s in Mental Health and Wellness. She is also an Ancestral Healing Practitioner, integrating indigenous cosmologies and wisdom into her practice, as well as a dedicated advocate for natural medicine.
At the Land of Possible, she merges western theories of the psyche with indigenous systems of knowledge to facilitate growth, and healing. Claudia strongly believes personal growth and healing is an active process of self discovery, self acceptance, self love, and mindful actions that require openness to the paradoxes of life, curiosity, compassion and commitment.
Throughout 20 year of direct work as a psychodynamic psychotherapist and trauma informed mental health professional, Claudia has guided clients to honor their truth, to allow all of who they are to belong, and to let their self discovery transform their lives with integrity, and the lives of those around them. With the same gravitas, her 23 years of exploration, apprenticeship and practice of ancestral ways of knowing, healing, and the ethical use of natural medicine, has provided Claudia with enough roadmaps to help others navigate their internal world and its depths, their relationship to the outer world, and enhance their spiritual lives.
education
Western
Doctorate Degree in Psychoanalytic Clinical Practice from Centro ELEIA, Actividades Psicologicas A.C. in Mexico City
Master’s in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from Centro ELEIA, Actividades Psicologicas A.C. in Mexico City
Master's in Mental Health Counseling & Wellness from NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development
Certificate of Completion in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders from PSI-Postpartum Support International
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Immersion
Currently part of 2024 cohort at Vital’s (Psychedelics Today) Certification Program in Psychedelic Therapy.
ancestral & Earth based
Animist Psychology, Foundations of Ritual, and Ancestral Lineage Healing by Dr. Daniel Foor from Ancestral Medicine
Apprenticed and Initiated as a Medicine Woman by Irma Starspirit Turtle Woman
Trained in Being in Dreaming by Irma Starspirit Turtle Woman
Dream Interpretation by the Mamos & Sagas of La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
Ceremonial Participation with the Wixarika community of La Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico & the Mazatec people of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Certified Sound Healer and Ceremonialist by Sasha Kovalchick
The roundedness of my presence, the clarity of my mind, the openness of my heart, and the wisdom I’ve acquired throughout my personal and professional life, equips me with the most thorough and broad spectrum understanding of our human experience in relation to the challenges and possibilities of our times.
My offerings create a nurturing container for meaningful connections, insights, transformation, growth, expansion of consciousness, opening of the heart, and the potency of embodied presence and radical acceptance.