Hillevi Ruumet

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hillevi Ruumet is a psychologist by training, a “psychonaut” by inclination. She has spent her adult life in the study and practice of Jungian psychology and dream analysis, cross-cultural spiritual traditions, and an integral approach to human wholeness. The seeds of her career as psychologist, psychotherapist, professor of transpersonal psychology, workshop leader, and author were sown during her formative years as a child in the midst of World War II, evolving into a radical life transformation as an immigrant in New York City. "Under Fate’s Wing" (2015) tells this amazing story, which won the top writing prize for memoir at the 2014 San Francisco Writers’ Conference.

Her education includes a B.A. in French and Drama from Mount Holyoke College, a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, and a wide variety of postdoctoral study and practice in Jungian and transpersonal psychology, Tibetan Buddhism, and mystical Christianity. During the 1970s, she was also a pioneer in the then-emergent field of stress management and wellness. The varied strands of this journey evolved into the “map” of psycho-spiritual development described in her first book, "Pathways of the Soul" (2006).

She currently lives in Southern Oregon and, though retired from practicing psychotherapy, continues to explore and further the interdependent threads of spiritual and psychological development in herself and others.