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Anna Dinallo, PhD, DOM
Core Assistant Professor
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling Concentration (residential and low residency)
EDUCATION:
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS:
MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling,
MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling (Low-Residency)
COURSES TAUGHT:
Dr. Anna Moya-García Dinallo (they/them) is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, licensed somatic therapist (LPC), and a meditation instructor who has completed over 500 hours of mindfulness and yoga training. They hold two doctorates in related fields and are trained as a curandera with certificates in Meso-American healing within their lineage.
Dinallo began their teaching career in El Salvador’s post-civil war rural settings, drawing inspiration from liberation psychology and advocating contemplative education as a form of social justice to foster action-oriented pedagogical approaches in Counselor Education. Their work integrates Decolonial Family Constellation, Ancestral Somatic Reprocessing, and Five Element theory within counseling, acupuncture, and vedic astrology. Dinallo’s current research includes studying the relationship of the inner-critique and meditation for counselors in training, as well as Starseed Counseling, frameworks for Transpersonal psychology.
At Naropa University, they aspire to cultivate a unified field that is student-centered, compassionate, and playful. This year, they are teaching Counseling and Helping Relationships, 5-Element Body, Group Counseling, and Jungian Psychology in the MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program, with a concentration in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling.
PUBLICATIONS:
Current Research
- Mindfulness and Imposture Syndrome
- Starseed Counseling: Transpersonal Frameworks in Psychology
Publications
- Dinallo (2025). Decolonial Family Constellation: A Conceptual Humanistic Model for Refugees of War and Their Future Generations. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling.
- Dinallo, A. (2022). Presentation Title “Trauma Informed Care: Acupuncture for Sexual Trauma.” Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine: Conference Disruptive Innovation. October 28–30.
- Dinallo, A. (2019). A Reflection on Cupping Therapy and Historical Medical Dominance. Int J Complement Alt Med. 12(2):66‒68.
- Dinallo, A. (2018). Yoga & Emotional Literacy. MOJ Yoga & Physical Therapy (3) 1.
- Dinallo, A. (2017). “Family Emotional Literacy: A Critical Education Curriculum for Mental Health Promotion.” https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/educ_llss_etds/80
- Dinallo, A., Allison, G., & Juarez, M. (2017). Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Utilization Rates in New Mexico: Recommendations for Marketing and Mentorship between Professionals and Students. International Journal of Complementary and Alternative Med, 9(1), 00287.
- Dinallo-Moya-García, A. (2016). Social and Emotional learning with Families. The Journal of Learning and Education.
- Dinallo-Moya-García, A. & Allison, G. (2013). Excavating the Continuum of Mentorship within the Supplement Instruction Model and its Role in Creating Diverse Learning Environments. Impact and Effectiveness of Developmental Relationships.
- Dinallo-Moya-García, A. (2011). Discovering Humanism Info Change: Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, 1(2), 131‒146.
