About

A woman with dark hair tied in a bun, wearing glasses and red lipstick, is talking on a red telephone. She is dressed in a white shirt, striped necktie, and has a NASA staff badge clipped to her pocket. The background shows an indoor setting with wooden walls and a ceiling light.

I make objects and installations that try to give shape to inner experience — coffins for what we want to bury, bowls for the parts of ourselves we'd rather not hold alone, levers for the binary thinking that runs the mind. I think of it as sympathetic magic: making abstract psychological work tactile, so something that lives only in your head can be moved by your hands.

I'm an associate therapist in Echo Park, Los Angeles, working with adults and couples on anxiety, trauma, insomnia, and relational repair. The clinical work and these objects feed each other — most of them come out of moments I've sat with clients (or with myself) and felt the limits of language alone.

I live in Echo Park with my seventeen-year-old son. Outside the art and clinical work, I run Cognito, a small communications agency that handles comms for CreateCA.

→ For my therapy practice: ledamaliga.com