Celia is a shamanic practitioner, healer, teacher, and animist guide based in Tucson, Arizona, whose path into this work began in 1992 while pursuing a degree in Anthropology at Appalachian State University. She has trained extensively across three decades, studying Core Neo-Shamanism as taught by Michael Harner, Sandra Ingerman, and Hank Wesselman, and deepened her practice through initiation into the ancient Inca lineage of Earthkeepers in 2008 via the Q'ero shamans from the high Andes of Peru. Her training includes direct work with Alberto Villoldo of The Four Winds Society, multiple Andean Paqo lineages, Internal Family Systems, trauma-sensitive approaches, Reiki Mastery, ancestral healing, compassionate depossession, and mindful self-compassion. She has held a private healing practice in Tucson for over 15 years and travels to Peru nearly every year to learn directly from her Q'ero teachers.