Crista Hope is an artist and expressive art and movement healer and facilitator working in Venice, CA. She holds a Master’s Degree from New York University in Art & Spirituality.  Crista’s passion for the creative process, its connection to a higher power and innate capacity to heal the human mind, body and spirit is contagious. As a recovering addict herself, Crista knows first-hand the struggles people face when getting sober and dealing with the mental health challenges that can follow.

She is passionate about art and movement as healing modalities because it is crucial people find tools to process our feelings in healthy & constructive ways. We have access to a great healing power within us. The work Crista does with Expressive Art and Dance aim to connect us with that healing power. Crista facilitated expressive art and dance groups and worked with individuals at some the most prominent addiction and dual diagnosis treatment centers in Southern California through March 2020 when the pandemic hit the United States.  Crista now sees private clients, facilities zoom groups and teaches workshops in expressive art and dance. 

As a working artist, Crista develops her work through a process of deep self-exploration including prayer and meditation. Using art and creativity as a vehicle, Crista is a fearless promoter of the healing power of the love.  She has lived in New York City, Santa Fe, and currently, Los Angeles and along the way worked for and studied with some of the world’s renowned spiritual teachers.  

Crista also facilities the decluttering, organizing and renewing the energy of your home as well as the energy medicine services for Sound Mind Alive. Crista is the founder of Make Love Loud™ a company that is the channel for her lifelong work and mission to help create a world where love speaks louder than fear on every street corner… in every room and home… and in every heart and mind.