Ways to engage
Four paths into the work.
Each begins with the same commitment: meeting complexity without reducing people or ideas to problems to solve.
Kalen Aradia, ASW #139653, provides relational, depth-oriented, trauma-informed telehealth psychotherapy to adults in California through The Inner Room Collective under the supervision of Natalene Barbarian, LMFT #132701.
- Mood disorders, attachment, and relational patterns
- Gender, identity, and internalized oppression
- Existential questions, transitions, and self-understanding
Credentialed through the International Coaching Federation.
For leaders and reflective professionals, organizational life can bring consequential decisions, difficult transitions, and pressures that are hard to see clearly from inside. Coaching slows the process down to cultivate how you lead, communicate, and exercise power. Coaching remains distinct from psychotherapy.
- Leadership presence, juggling work & parenthood, and communication
- Career transitions and difficult decisions
- Power, conflict, and organizational dynamics
Routledge monograph · Documentary screened internationally
The Perverse Feminine names what happens when forms of feminine power are condemned, distorted, and forced underground—and what becomes possible when they are reclaimed. The framework grew from qualitative research and is now carried through a Routledge monograph, the documentary short Perverse Feminine, and ongoing writing.
- The four-stage theoretical framework
- Book, documentary, and qualitative research
- Writing and public scholarship
Available for talks, panels, guest lectures, and workshops.
Some ideas need more room than the page allows. In talks and workshops, I draw on mythology, depth psychology, The Perverse Feminine, and qualitative research to examine how gendered shame and cultural power take shape in lived experience.
- Forbidden femininity, mythology, and Lilith
- Internalized sexism, gender, and power
- Archetypal inquiry and qualitative research
The Perverse Feminine
BOOK
The Perverse Feminine: An Archetypal Reclamation of Forbidden Power
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.
DOCUMENTARY
Perverse Feminine
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
Let’s begin the conversation.
For coaching, speaking, research, and collaborative inquiries, tell me a little about what you are considering. I’ll respond with the appropriate next step.