Rebecca Bruno

Rebecca is a licensed depth and body-centered psychotherapist and artist working across dance and visual art. She has served as a therapist at Counseling West Community Counseling Center in Sherman Oaks and Caring Connected in Pasadena, CA. Currently Rebecca serves as a Thesis Advisor and Teaching Assistant at Pacifica Graduate Institute and works with individual adults and partners in private practice in Pasadena and throughout California. She is a graduate of the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology program at Pacifica and continues her education in Complex Trauma, Internal Family Systems, Dream Tending, Somatic Experiencing, Mysticism, Therapeutic Movement, and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples. Rebecca’s master’s thesis posits orality as a locus from which to practice intersubjective psychotherapy, case conceptualization, and embodied diagnosis that reaches for marginal psychic contents in the therapeutic relationship. Prior to practicing psychotherapy, Rebecca facilitated movement and somatic therapy workshops and practiced craniosacral therapy in private practice for fifteen years. Rebecca is the founder and director emeritus of homeLA, an inclusive body-centered nomadic performance project that works to expand the notion of home in Los Angeles. Bruno collaborates with Mak Kern on Objects for Others, a project that embraces chance and meditation by pairing a dance sensibility with kinetic sound sculptures. Bruno’s works have been presented by such venues as The Hammer Museum, The Norton Simon Museum, The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Lloyd Wright Sowden House, the Neutra VDL House, REDCAT Theater, the Bootleg Theater, FLAX Foundation at Tin Flats, The Pit Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, Navel LA, Springbreak Art Show, Compound Yucca Valley, Eden’s Expressway NYC, Judson Church NYC, Ponderosa Germany, Dance Studies Association Malta, and the LAB, Jerusalem. Research areas of interest include forms of embodiment that support holding space for the expression of psyche, respiratory philosophy, the Feldenkrais method and body-centered learning, eco psychology and interrelatedness, religious trauma and systems of belief, and connections between the central nervous system and soul.