Carla has been working with clinical and holistic aromatherapy in Campinas, Brazil for the past 12 years. She is the founder of “Aromaluz“, a school of Aromatherapy that offers many courses from basic to advanced and workshops with national and international speakers. For many years, Carla has been researching the effect of essential oils, especially to release and heal traumatic memories.

More recently, she has has started to use aromatherapy with children and teenagers at Padre Gabriel Mejia‘s Hogares Claret Foundation in Colombia, an institution that offers therapeutic support for those who were affected by marginality, violence or the use of psychoactive substances. Her work with trauma has been well-known in the last years; she has had the opportunity to share part of her work at the Botanica2018 congress and in some conferences in Brazil as well.