The Healing:
Who I am
— Careen, Reiki Master, Akashic Counselor, Shamanic Guide, Professional Tarot Reader, channel & founder.
My name is Careen, and I’m based near Philadelphia. I incarnated into a life of heavy lessons — abandonment, addiction, profound grief and loss, the mother wound, and so much more.
My sister’s tragic murder in 2010 was the moment that shattered everything and pushed me into my darkest night of the soul. That descent became the doorway to sobriety, awakening, and remembering who I actually am.
I come from a gifted maternal line, but those gifts showed up in volatile, painful, and unintegrated ways. My father raised me Catholic, and through him I learned what it meant to have a genuine connection to God — but I was never taught how to navigate the non-physical or understand psychic sensitivity without fear. That didn’t come until later, when I went through my own initiations and unlearned the fear-based programming that kept me disconnected from my intuition.
My relationship (or lack thereof) with my mother shaped much of my inner world. Becoming a mother myself — especially navigating my children’s early health challenges — amplified my desire to break cycles instead of repeat them.
That’s how Careen of Cups was born: a nod to the Queen of Cups archetype — intuitive, maternal, emotionally attuned — and the reminder that we all, in our own way, must learn to mother our inner child.
When my mother died tragically in 2022, everything shifted again. Another dark night. Another unraveling. Another expansion.
A year later, on Winter Solstice ’23, I sat beside my father as he transitioned. I held space with prayer, energy work, and the quiet permission he needed to let go.
All of this — the shadow work, the initiations, the losses, the healing, the remembering — brought me into my purpose: helping people navigate their own shadows and bring them into the Light.
“Love and light” is beautiful, but it’s not the full path. Ignoring the subconscious — the shadow patterns shaping our everyday reactions — only keeps us stuck.
When you work with me, I go deep. I am honest. I help you see the patterns, the wounds, the karmic threads, and then guide you through alchemizing them into something meaningful and liberating. My work is rooted in lived experience, continuing education, and certifications in intuitive and spiritual modalities. But most of all, it is rooted in a lifetime of walking through the dark and choosing to rise.
As the sun sets and the night falls… the sun always rises again.





























