Meet Dr. Angelina
Expert Depth Psychologist
Dr. Angelina H. Rodriguez
Speaker | Author | Artist
Dr. Angelina H. Rodriguez is a Houston-based Jungian psychotherapist, board-certified art therapist, and speaker who explores the deeper emotional and symbolic patterns shaping human experience. For more than two decades, she has guided individuals and groups through experiences of grief, addiction, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and life transitions.
With a doctorate in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dr. Angelina's work extends beyond symptom management to explore the dreams, symbols, emotional patterns, and unconscious forces that influence our lives. Her approach integrates psychotherapy with Jungian-informed art therapy, Dream Tending™, and experiential ritual practices that invite deeper self-understanding and lasting change.
As both clinician and artist, she brings a creative and deeply human perspective to psychotherapy. Her artistic practice became the gateway to her exploration of depth psychology after recognizing how imagery, dreams, and symbolic expression often reveal truths that cannot be reached through words alone. It also led to Young Picassos™, an innovative program founded by Dr. Angelina for students in Houston schools designed to empower children through artistic discovery and creativity.
Dr. Angelina earned her Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, a Master's degree in Counseling from Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, and specialized training in Art Therapy from the University of Houston–Clear Lake. She is licensed by the Texas State Board of Professional Counselors as a Licensed Professional Counselor and Art Therapy Supervisor (LPC-AT/S) and is a Registered Board-Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC).
“Images speak long before we understand their meaning. When we begin to listen, the psyche reveals what words alone cannot.”
-Jungian Psychotherapist Dr. Angelina H. Rodriguez - Houston, Texas
More about Dr. Angelina
From Grief to Purpose
Art was Dr. Angelina's first language. Drawn to the power of images and creative expression from an early age, she discovered that art could communicate experiences that often live beyond language.
That understanding became deeply personal following the death of her grandmother when she was eighteen. Searching for a way to navigate her grief, she found herself drawn to the traditions of Día de los Muertos and the ritual of ofrenda-making. Through art, memory, and ritual, she encountered a different relationship with loss—one that honored remembrance while creating space for healing and transformation.
What began as a personal exploration gradually evolved into a lifelong calling. Her interest in grief, ritual, creativity, and the symbolic life of the psyche eventually led her to earn a Ph. D in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her doctoral dissertation and documentary film, The Ofrenda Ritual: Bridging Art and Death, examine how ritual artmaking can help individuals navigate complicated grief, and discover meaning after loss.
Dia de los Muertos, Grief and Ritual
One of Dr. Angelina’s most recognized areas of work involves Día de los Muertos and ofrenda-making traditions. Through altar creation, symbolic objects, photographs, candles, flowers, and storytelling, participants are invited to honor loved ones, process grief, and reconnect with memory and meaning in a deeply personal way.
For the Aztecs, death was not viewed as the opposite of life, but as part of its continuation. This perspective is woven throughout Día de los Muertos traditions today: a reminder that love, memory, and connection continue beyond absence.
Dr. Angelina’s work explores how ritual and creativity can help individuals deepen their relationship with grief, memory, transition, and the archetype of death itself. Rather than avoiding conversations around death and loss, these experiences encourage participants to approach them with reflection, reverence, and emotional honesty. The ofrenda itself is more than an altar. It is an emotional and symbolic space where grief, love, memory, ancestry, and continuity of connection are brought into visible form.
Her work with Dia de los Muertos and the ofrenda-making ritual has led to workshops, presentations, and experiential gatherings throughout the United States.
Dr. Angelina H. Rodriguez
Ph.D., LPC-AT/S, ATR-BC
Speaker, Presenter, Media Guest
Media, Speaking & Collaborations
Dr. Angelina H. Rodriguez is available for speaking engagements, podcast interviews, workshops, panel discussions, retreats, and media appearances exploring topics related to Jungian depth psychology, grief, symbolism, addiction, relationships, creativity, and emotional transformation.
Known for bringing warmth, insight, and accessibility to complex psychological themes, Dr. Angelina offers depth-oriented perspectives that connect emotional healing with dreams, archetypes, ritual, art, and the unconscious.
Her speaking and media topics include:
- Grief, loss, and ritual practices
- Addiction and the unconscious
- Jungian-informed art therapy and creativity
- Dream work and symbolic meaning
- The mother-daughter relationship and inherited emotional patterns
- Healing through nature, symbolism, and archetypes
- Individuation and the search for meaning
- Dia de los Muertos ofrenda-making traditions and grief integration
Dr. Angelina’s work has been featured through workshops, experiential gatherings, documentary film, podcast conversations, television interviews, and public speaking engagements throughout the United States.
Media & Speaking Inquiries
For speaking opportunities, collaborations, workshops, podcast appearances, or media interviews, please inquire here.
Meet Dr. Angelina
Dr. Angelina H. Rodriguez is a Houston-based Jungian psychotherapist, speaker, and artist whose work explores the deeper emotional and symbolic patterns shaping human experience. Read more...
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