About The Author
Rev Calisto Rose
Callisto Rose is a seasoned financial advisor, consultant, and coach with multiple tertiary qualifications across finance, accounting, and strategic advisory fields. For more than three decades, she has worked at the highest levels of commercial practice, building and leading successful businesses while guiding individuals and organisations through complexity, risk, and long-term decision-making.
“Callisto Rose is a pseudonym, chosen to protect the privacy and safety of her family.
But From Trauma to Trust was not born from a boardroom.”
It emerged from a deeply personal journey — one shaped by a traumatic childhood, decades of dissociation, and over forty years of intensive therapeutic work. Alongside building a successful professional career, Callisto quietly undertook the far harder work of healing: confronting complex trauma, navigating Dissociative Identity Disorder, and rebuilding a life grounded not just in external success, but in internal trust.
She is the mother of four children, whom she raised while actively engaged in her own recovery. Today, they are adults who are grounded, emotionally mature, and thriving living proof that generational cycles of trauma can be interrupted, healed, and transformed.
As her healing deepened, Callisto’s interests expanded beyond traditional psychology into metaphysics, consciousness studies, and spiritual integration. She has since undertaken extensive study in metaphysical philosophy and healing practices and is currently working toward a PhD in metaphysics. Alongside her professional work, she now practises as a metaphysical counsellor, supporting others on their journeys from survival into wholeness.
Callisto’s work sits at the intersection of lived experience, clinical understanding, and spiritual inquiry. She brings the same clarity, discipline, and integrity that defined her financial career into the realm of healing bridging logic and intuition, structure and soul.
From Trauma to Trust is her most personal work to date: a testament to resilience, integration, and the possibility of building a meaningful, connected life after profound trauma. It is written not from theory, but from the hard-won knowledge of someone who has lived both fragmentation and wholeness and learned how to walk from one to the other.