Stephanie Travale is a licensed psychotherapist and scholar of consciousness studies, currently completing her PhD coursework in Integral Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her professional path began at the crossroads of psyche and language, earning a double major degree in Psychology and English with a minor in Business in 2016.

​

Her graduate studies in East–West Psychology broadened her inquiry into cross-cultural psycho-spiritual traditions, depth psychology, and ecopsychology, where psyche is understood to be embedded within land, lineage, and cosmos. Drawn by an innate curiosity and a zealous desire to understand beyond lived context, she has studied yoga philosophy in Bali Indonesia, and Pondicherry India—following her wonder to more than twenty countries, often alone, allowing place, culture, and living traditions to become her teachers. Her work and worldview are largely hermeneutic, understanding that our perceptions and methods of knowing are context-dependent, rooted in time, place, language, and history. 

​

At the heart of her work is a devotion to tracing patterns back to their origin. She listens for what echoes across cultures—not as identical expressions, but equivalent ones—where myth, image, and symbol reveal shared ontological truths, what her mentor Glenn Aparicio-Parry calls: “the language of spirit". Stephanie holds dearly the origins of “psychology”—psyche logos—as the pursuit to know one’s soul, understanding psychology as inseparable from spirituality. Through this investigation, Stephanie recognized that psyche could not be separated from geography, archaeology, cultural anthropology, art history, mythology, astronomy, cosmology, ecology, biology, or physics. She holds respect for our existence here as dynamic, interconnected, and in relationship.

​

Her current research explores attunement to the world as a sacred, reciprocal relationship with consciousness, experienced through synchronicity, resonance, and meaning—where both the Self and world are learned, and creativity emerges. As a highly sensitive type herself, she is particularly interested in reframing the trait of sensitivity as a refined capacity for deep listening, transliminal listening—crossing between the threshold of conscious and unconscious information as a valid way of knowing. One that restores intimacy with the living intelligence of both Self and world—where the language of spirit speaks as an ineffable, guiding principle. ​

 

Stephanie is currently writing her first book, marrying her lived story with the research. She dedicates her research to her grandmothers, and Bilijk First Nation.