Selome Araya

Founder & Director of Integrative Healing Programs

Selome is a holistic healing practitioner, teacher, and creator of integrative healing methodologies, programs and trainings focused on holistic mental health, quantum energy medicine, ancestral healing, spiritual connection and awakening. She is also a certified Reiki Master/Teacher, Intuitive Counselor, Spirit Medium and Mental Health Holistic Healing Practitioner and Trainer.

She has supported communities, clients, and student practitioners across the U.S. and internationally for over a decade through healing programs and individual sessions, practitioner trainings, group healing experiences and workshops. Her work has bridged mental, spiritual, emotional, physical, energetic, and ancestral health to support transformational, multidimensional and whole person healing, and offers alternative options for people who feel traditional methods alone have not fully addressed their needs. 

Selome has also been contracted as a healing practitioner, group-healing and workshop facilitator, and teacher-trainer for practitioner-level programs with organizations such as the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Brown University, Novo Foundation / Grantmakers for Girls of Color, Move to End Violence, GirlsTrek, Agape International Spiritual Center, National Harm Reduction Coalition, and others. She has also curated healing villages as part of Harriet’s Apothecary, a collective of healing practitioners in New York offering sliding-scale services to expand access to holistic healing. She has been a featured speaker at the Energy Medicine Summit, a guest panelist at Columbia University, and a guest on multiple podcasts sharing her work on holistic mental health, energy healing, and ancestral connection. As an educator and speaker, Selome has trained numerous practitioners privately and in partnership with wellness centers in New York, Ethiopia, and Portugal.

Through her new nonprofit, the Root Alchemy Institute, Selome Araya is working to expand access to holistic healing through community healing services, trainings, advocacy, resources, and partnerships with traditional healthcare systems.

Selome Araya holds a Master of Public Health from Columbia University, a B.A. in International Development Studies from UCLA, and is also a certified Doula and ESL instructor.