Biography 

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Lily Jiménez Dabdoub (she/her) is a multi-ethnic person who self-identifies as Latina. She was born and raised in Mexico City. She is dedicated to decolonizing therapy through critical reflections and constantly learning and (re)learning ancestral healing practices. Lily informs her therapeutic practice by humanistic and systemic approaches, recognizing that this Western psychological knowledge is deeply intertwined and decontextualized from indigenous knowledge. As a racialized immigrant woman, she has experienced and endured the hardship of oppressive racism and social injustice. Consequently, she is empathic and an advocate for Social Justice matters.

 

As an art therapist, she specializes in working with racialized folks and neurodivergent individuals, particularly children and adults; she started an ongoing support group “Latinielxs Women’s Circle”. She continues to explore healing practices by fostering community engagement and addressing historical oppression. As part of the Climate-Informed Counsellors Chapter board from the CCPA, she is working with these climate-aware counselors to sensibilize and disseminate climate-informed therapeutic practices.

 

As an emerging artist, Lily focused her work on photography. During her studies in Art Education, she explored different media for self-expression and promotion of Mental Health Awareness. Lily is also a research enthusiast. She obtained her Bachelor's degree with Honours from UNAM as a Psychologist (2014) and holds a Master's of Science in Music, Mind and Brain from Goldsmiths University of London (2015), where she was part of the interdisciplinary audio-motor research group. Lily completed her first graduate studies as a fellow of the National Council for Science and Technology from Mexico (CONACyT) and Santander-Goldsmith Scholarship.

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As a psychologist, Lily has developed research in the fields of neuroaesthetics and music cognition. She was a research assistant in the first Mexican project focused on an interdisciplinary understanding about neuroaesthetics of pre-Hispanic art, "The Brain and Art," which is coordinated by Dr. Francisco Fernández de Miguel and brings together the work of mathematicians, biologists, psychologists, and visual artists, as well as the participation of the visiting public at the Museum of Tlatelolco (CCUT).

 

She has worked and volunteered in cultural management and curatorial projects. Her inclination to the arts has kept her close to the world of photography, actively participating in Photographic University competitions since 2010. In 2012, her photography "El de Bigotes" was selected to be part of the first book of the Mega Ofrendas. She has also been invited to participate in:

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Mexican collective exhibitions

Faculty of Psychology, 2011,

Proyecto Cultural Talamuro, 2014,

Galería 124, 2015 and

Galería Oscar Román, 2017

 

and International exhibitions

Square Gallery London, 2016,

The Vaults London, 2017 and

Visual Voice Gallery Montreal, 2019

 

During 2019 Lily was part of the interdisciplinary course: Arts, Society and Neuroscience culminating in a collective exhibition where Lily produced Self-Flow: an ongoing series of Sumi-e style paintings in collaboration with Liam O'Leary. The focus was to convey how O'Leary's research on depression inspired Lily's blood paintings to promote awareness about depression and suicide.  Her current work is focused on landscapes by translating her City Escapes and Land Escapes photographic series into painting. She is also working on portraying endangered animal species. Another ongoing project is a series of portraits about Latin American women in science abroad entitled "SMART: Science, Women, America Latina, Representing Talent", which already encompasses 25 portraits of women developing scientific research in different areas from the neurosciences, astrophysics to philosophy in England, Switzerland and Canada.

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