Sylvia Brinton Perera earned her BA in Art History at Radcliffe, an MA in Art History at Harvard and an MA in Psychology at The New School in New York City. She later taught art history at Wellesley College, and was the curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine. Sylvia graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she has taught and continues to supervise. She currently practices from Vermont.