Meeting
Ourselves
Fully.
What lies within the tension between who we are and who we have learned to be?
Four paths into the work.
Each begins with the same commitment: meeting complexity without reducing people or ideas to problems to solve.
Relational, depth-oriented psychotherapy for adults navigating trauma, relationship difficulties, self-criticism, and the pressures that shape how we understand ourselves and others. The work explores recurring patterns, emotional responses, and the conditions that make change, connection, and greater agency possible.
- Trauma, attachment, and recurring relationship patterns
- Shame, self-criticism, perfectionism, and emotional overwhelm
- Identity, gender, transitions, grief, and societal pressures
Credentialed through the International Coaching Federation.
Leadership coaching for women navigating responsibility, ambition, difficult decisions, and the interpersonal demands of organizational life. The work creates room to examine how you lead, communicate, set boundaries, and exercise authority while remaining connected to your values, priorities, and sense of self.
- Leadership presence, communication, and confidence
- Boundaries, competing responsibilities, and burnout
- Career transitions, conflict, and consequential decisions
Routledge monograph · Documentary screened internationally
The Perverse Feminine is an archetypal framework for examining what women are taught to fear, suppress, or disown within themselves. The work traces how forbidden qualities become distorted when denied, and what may become possible when they are consciously reclaimed and integrated.
- A four-stage framework of condemnation, distortion, and reclamation
- Archetypal psychology, gender, mythology, and cultural power
- Developed through research and extended through book and film
Available for talks, panels, guest lectures, and workshops.
Talks and workshops invite mythology, depth psychology, gender, and qualitative inquiry into conversation with questions of shame, identity, and cultural power. These engagements create space to examine how inherited ideas take shape in lived experience and how they might be understood differently.
- The Perverse Feminine, forbidden femininity, and mythology
- Internalized sexism, identity, and cultural power
- Archetypal inquiry and qualitative research
The Perverse Feminine
BOOK
Grounded in Jungian theory, feminist psychology, mythology, and qualitative research, The Perverse Feminine traces how forbidden forms of feminine power are cast out, distorted, and reclaimed.
film
Through intimate interviews and personal testimony, the film brings the framework to life, tracing how shame, identity, power, and reclamation take shape in women’s experiences.
About Kalen
A practice built on the conviction that the parts of us forced underground are the very parts that hold our power.
Kalen Aradia works across psychotherapy, organizational coaching, research, writing, and film, with a focus on the forces that shape identity, power, and belonging. Her work examines what individuals and cultures push out of view, including contradiction, disallowed forms of power, and the parts of ourselves we learn to divide off in order to belong.
She is a psychotherapist, ICF-credentialed Professional Certified Coach, and organizational development practitioner. Her PhD research became the Routledge monograph The Perverse Feminine: An Archetypal Reclamation of Forbidden Powerand informed the documentary short Perverse Feminine. She also speaks and teaches on gender, mythology, depth psychology, qualitative research, and cultural power.
contact
For coaching, speaking, research, and collaborative inquiries, tell me a little about what you are considering. I’ll respond with the appropriate next step.