Our Vision
Empowering individuals to reclaim holistic health, recovery, and wellbeing by integrating Western healing modalities with Ancestral traditions, fostering a balanced approach that honors both modern science and ancient wisdom.
Dr. Jorge Partida, Founder
Dr. Jorge Partida is Chief of Psychology at LA County Department of Mental Health. He is a clinical and research psychologist, specializing in addiction and trauma. He is also an author, consultant and national speaker integrating Native Ancestral Teachings with traditional Western psychotherapy.
Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Dr. Partida immigrated to Chicago at nine years of age and there, obtained his bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University and his PsyD from The Illinois School of Professional Psychology (ISPP).
Dr. Partida has been a consultant on many national and international projects designing and implementing clinical programs to address addiction, education, health, community building, diversity, and spirituality. He has worked with local and national governments to coordinate services for those most impacted by poverty, war and displacement. He has worked in Liberia, Africa in the repatriation of boy soldiers, forming “intentional communities” in war and povertyimpacted countries such as Colombia, Peru, and Mexico.
Dr. Partida has extensive experience presenting mental health segments for television and radio with networks, including Univision, Telemundo, HITN-TV, CBS, UPN, NBC and PBS.
Rita Naverrete, Curandera
RITA NAVARRETE is an elder from the Otomi Indigenous community of Metaxi, Mexico. She has decades of experience and expertise in many healing modalities, including being a Temazcalera (water pourer for the adobe sweat lodge ceremony), a Huesera (bone-setter), a Curandera (healer), and Maestra (master teacher).
She is the director of a school in Jilotepec, Mexico and has become known as an international leader and teacher. She is one of the main instructors for the annual 2-week Summer Course in Curanderismo at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, and she is one of the Traditional Healing Professors at CEDEHC (Centro de Desarrollo Humano Hacia la Comunidad) in Cuernavaca, Morelos. She has been invited to lead many sacred ceremonies for Indigenous Nations as well as to teach/lead workshops and ceremonies in many states in the USA and Canada with multicultural communities.