About Arianne MacBean

Arianne MacBean

Arianne MacBean is a Certified Somatic Psychotherapist and Associate Marriage Family Therapist in Los Angeles, CA. She holds a BA in Dance from UCLA, a Double MFA in Dance & Writing from California Institute of the Arts, and an MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her writing has been published by the academic journal Dance Chronicle as well as Feminism and Religion and Nasty Women Writers Project. Her children’s book, The Backyard Fairies is available on Amazon.



Author Archives: Arianne MacBean

Banishing the Anger that Banished Me

November 4th, 2025 | by Arianne MacBean

I have gripped the doorknob closed with white knuckles against a raging child on the other side, and I have allowed the raging child in me to whisk up a whirling tornado of pain, sweeping up everything in its path


tiny waves

May 9th, 2025 | by Arianne MacBean

A mother is supposed to do the mothering, not the daughter



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