Hi, I am Roberta
My Path
Born in Rio de Janeiro, I grew up surrounded by a large, loving family and a luminous childhood. In adolescence, the encounter with pain and feelings of abandonment awakened in me a deep longing for meaning — the first call that led me onto a lifelong journey of self-knowledge and healing.
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For 29 years, I have walked my own psychotherapeutic path, while simultaneously engaging in a profound spiritual journey through initiations and studies with various Indigenous traditions of the Americas. Among the Hunikuin and Yawanawá peoples, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, I deepened my understanding of the sacred cycles of life — birth, death, and rebirth.
On the Camino Rojo, guided by Abuela Adriana Ocelot, I undertook the Hamblecheya (Vision Quest) and became a Danzante de Luna within the lineage of Abuela Malinalli. I was initiated by Abuelo Tata Izaías Sajvin Mendoza and Abuela Nana Izabel Pérez into the Mayan tradition through Cacao and healing practices, and continue to walk under the guidance of Ajq’ij Nana Marina Cruz. I am also a Sahumadora within the Maya Toltec tradition, under the guidance of Abuela Ana Luisa Solís Gil.
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These encounters with ancestral traditions revealed the same movement I found in depth psychology — the journey of returning to the Self. Inspired by this bridge between worlds, I became a Psychotherapist and Jungian Analyst in training at IJEP-RJ (Instituto Junguiano de Estudo e Pesquisa).
With the Mayan elders, I deepened my studies of their symbology and cosmology, which I now integrate into my work through Mayan Cross readings and symbolic interpretation. I have also studied with renowned teachers of human behavior and symbolism such as Waldemar Magaldi, Leonardo Torres, and Lia Romano.
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My therapeutic practice emerges from the integration of Jungian psychology and ancestral wisdom, weaving together symbolic and spiritual perspectives within the psychotherapeutic process. I accompany those who seek reconnection and wholeness, facilitating a dialogue between the unconscious and the sacred — between the human and the natural.
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I currently live in southern Spain with my family, cultivating a simple and coherent life dedicated to remembering — and helping others remember — that to live is a sacred act of awareness and a return to one’s true essence.
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— Roberta Abud