Atousa Raissyan is an awareness centered spiritual mentor, shamanic practitioner, energy healer, author and visionary artist based in Potomac, Maryland, whose work centers on trauma healing and emotional healing, serving the Washington DC area and clients around the world. For more than two decades she has helped people move beyond what she calls the healing loop and come home to who they really are. In her words, “It’s a calling that happens to have a website.”
Meet Atousa
Atousa was born in Tehran and came to the United States at twelve, by way of Germany, without speaking English. She went on to earn a degree in Electrical Engineering from George Mason University at nineteen, the youngest in her class, and built an engineering career. The whole time, another part of her was reading spiritual books and exploring energy healing. She received her first energy healing certification in 2003 and became a Master Healer in 2004.
When her own health and life reached a breaking point, she picked up colored pencils and charcoal she hadn’t touched in years and returned to Rumi, and art and healing began unfolding together. In 2012 she officially launched her healing practice and her art business.
Beyond the healing loop
Many of the people who find Atousa have already done a lot of work on themselves. They have read the books and understand their patterns, yet they keep circling back to the same place. Her work goes underneath that, gently uncovering the protective identities people build to survive, like the fixer, the people pleaser or the one who always has to be strong, so that clarity, self trust and emotional freedom can return.
Her formal training is as a Master Healer and in shamanism, and over the years she has developed her own way of working. There is no fixed protocol. Depending on the person, a session might be conversation, energy work, body and nervous system work, or simply silence. Many of her clients work with her alongside therapy, and she is clear that she is not interested in making anyone dependent on healing.
“I help people come home to themselves.”
Atousa Raissyan
Ways to work with Atousa
Atousa offers private trauma and energy healing sessions, spiritual mentorship one on one or in a monthly group, couples healing sessions, and The Invitation, a six month private healing and mentorship journey. She also leads private half day mini retreats and seasonal small group retreats in the DC area and at select international locations. Sessions are available in person in the Washington DC Metro area and online worldwide.
Art, words and recognition
Atousa’s visionary art begins with her own nature photography and is transformed through digital layering and drawing. Her artwork is part of the permanent collection at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC. Her book, Change Yourself, Change the World, won Gold in the 2024 Nautilus Book Awards, and she hosts the podcast Goodbye Bull, Hello Happiness. In 2026 she was named an Entrepreneur of Impact, selected from 33,000 entrants. You can read more of her story in her interview with VoyageMaryland.
Visit Atousa Raissyan
Learn more, explore her art shop or start the conversation at atousaraissyan.com. You can also follow Atousa on Instagram.
With love, Infused Lights. This spotlight is part of the Infused Lights Light Network, a free directory of friends doing light-filled work. Photos courtesy of Atousa Raissyan (atousaraissyan.com) by Sydney Cisco, Elliot O’Donovan and Sabrina Saremi, used with permission.
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