Mental health practioner helping students write their wellness story
Anastasia Wasko is a writer, editor, and mental health practitioner from the NYC area who is currently living near Mendocino, California. Through a combination of psychosynthesis exercises, creative expression, mindfulness, and visualization exercises, she helps you manage your mental health. Anastasia specializes in working with Gen X individuals with a mood disorder. She is also the creator of Planet Dust Enterprises, a visionary mental health consulting practice and publisher that explore themes of inner transformation, the power of story, and self regulation.
Anastasia is the Associate Editor for Mindfield, the official publication of the Parapsychological Association. She wrote about parapsychology and psychosynthesis for Paranormal Ruptures: Critical Approaches to Exceptional Experiences (edited by Dr Jacob Glazier) and released by Beyond The Fray Publishing in 2023. She writes on topics including lived experience of mental health and bipolar disorder, psychospiritual growth, spiritual emergence, psychosynthesis, creative writing for transformation, and navigating the human-spirit experience as an ecosystem. Topics of research include paraspsychology, pansentience, and emerging belief systems.
She has a BA in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University (former Institute of Transpersonal Psychology) in Palo Alto, California and an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology from The Institute of Psychosynthesis in London, England. She is a PhD candidate in the integrated transpersonal psychology program at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, California.