Tracey Cleantis Dwyer, LMFT is a best-selling author, depth psychotherapist, and dream/depth coach. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California, Colorado and Utah.

Tracey authored the best-selling book, The Next Happy: Let Go of the Life You Planned and Find a New Way Forward (Hazelden, 2015), which received a Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review, was a finalist for The Books for a Better Life Award. Her second book, An Invitation to Self-Care: Why Learning to Nurture Yourself Is the Key to the Life You’ve Always Wanted, 7 Principles for Abundant Living (Hazelden/Simon & Schuster) created a new and expansive definition of self-care.

Tracey is a contributor to the Huffington Post, and has written a column, Freudian Sips, for Psychology Today. She has been featured in, among others: Health; Eating Well; First for Women, Redbook, Aeon, Macleans, Arroyo, Forest and Bluff, Santa Barbara Press, Sojourner, Mode Magazine, Yahoo News, Salon.com, Psychologies Magazine, The Daily Mail, The Daily News, YourTango.com. Tracey has appeared frequently on radio and television, including: NPR Wisconsin, Fox News Boston, KTLA5, and Portland AM Northwest.

In her practice, Tracey utilizes depth psychology in order to help people discover  and appreciate all of themselves, not just who their ego believes them to be, by making the unconscious aspects of the self conscious. She has a passion and calling for deep exploration of the psyche, utilizing dreams, symbols and a strong spirit of curiosity to help excavate lost and unknown aspects of self.  She brings to the work a deep honoring of the uniqueness of each individual and a profound appreciation for being able to be a companion on the journey of transformation.

Tracey has a Master’s Degree inf Counseling Psychology with an Emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She has trained extensively in Jungian, Depth psychology, Post-Freudian therapies and Archetypal psychologies. She has been in practice for over 19 years.