Andrés Jiménez
Trauma-Informed Therapist & Ceremonial Facilitator
I don’t believe people are broken.
I believe many of the spaces meant to heal them are.
I moved through spiritual communities that promised transcendence but avoided accountability. I mistook intensity for depth, validation for safety, charisma for wisdom.
Until I realized something simple: I had never truly felt safe in those spaces.
So I began building the kind of spaces I had been searching for.
My work stands on two pillars: a living ancestral lineage and contemporary trauma-informed practice.
Lineage, for me, is not status — it is accountability.
It means I do not improvise with what is sacred.
It means I am accountable to something older than myself — and to the people I serve.
I am an initiated Ajq’ij in the Maya K’iche’ tradition, trained through ceremonial fire and transmission with my teachers Nan Faviana Cochoy Alva and Tat Pedro Yac Noj.
I am also trained in Compassionate Inquiry (Dr. Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur), grief education (David Kessler), Internal Family Systems (IFSCA), Polyvagal-informed practice (Deb Dana), and mindfulness in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.
But titles are not the center of my work.
What matters is this:
I create structured, trauma-informed ceremonial and therapeutic spaces
where depth does not require overwhelm,
where spirituality does not replace psychology,
and where people are not fixed — but met.
For over thirteen years, together with my wife, I have built and sustained community spaces in Colombia — training educators, supporting more than 10,000 young people, and holding hundreds of circles, ceremonies, and one-to-one processes.
Through those years, my work has evolved, deepened, and reinvented itself many times — but the commitment to integrity and depth has remained constant.
From 2021 to 2025, I lived in Guatemala while undergoing initiation in the Maya K’iche’ tradition. During that time, I served as General Manager of Keith’s Cacao at Lake Atitlán — stewarding sourcing, processing and production while deepening my ceremonial path.
Few facilitators have walked the full arc of cacao — from cultivation and international production to initiation, ceremony, and professional formation. I have.
Today, my work moves in three directions:
• Trauma-informed therapeutic accompaniment (1:1)
• Ceremonial spaces rooted in lineage and nervous system regulation
• Advanced training and mentoring for facilitators who want method, ethics, and real competence — not performance
My work is for those who sense that something in the contemporary spiritual marketplace feels inflated, ungrounded, or fragile — and who want their service to rest on competence, ethics, and inner authority.
I am not interested in spiritual popularity, borrowed identities, or aesthetic mysticism.
I am interested in durable skill, ethical clarity, and real capacity.
I care about integrity.
About method.
About regulation.
About relationship.
If you are looking for spectacle, intensity, or instant transformation, I am not your person.
If you are ready to mature your practice — or to meet yourself with less performance and more truth — you may feel at home here.