OUR MISSION
My mission is to make space for what was missing in my own dance journey:
a room where you can move without needing to impress, and process without needing to explain. We’re here to flip the script on movement—
from how it looks on the outside to how it shifts you on the inside.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Meet Jannet Carrera: choreographer, director, educator, speaker, mentor, life coach, entrepreneur—and the visionary creator behind Psych of Dance.
Jannet’s life has always been in motion. From choreographing for film and television to teaching hip hop, dance fitness, and mentoring aspiring artists, she’s spent her career bringing movement to stages, schools, studios, and communities.
But no matter how high she climbed in the dance world, one truth became impossible to ignore:
There was always space for performance, pressure, and perfection—but rarely space for emotional care, reflection, or mental health within movement culture.
Jannet experienced this gap firsthand. Even while building a successful career, she realized: “I had places to perform. I didn’t have places to process.”
Psych of Dance was born to fill that missing space.
It’s not a fitness class. It’s not a choreography workshop. It’s not therapy.
It’s a guided movement system—a structured practice using intentional movement, gratitude, journaling, and reflection to help release emotional buildup, regulate the nervous system, and reconnect with the body. A space to move what words can’t. A system for processing, not performing.
Beyond Psych of Dance, Jannet continues leading in the entertainment and dance industries as the founder of The Carrera Effect, her dance studio where she mentors artists, teaches intuitive hip hop and dance fitness, and helps develop professional-level dancers for the industry.
A Southern California native, Jannet fell in love with dance at age seven—a love that carried her through triumphs and challenges alike. In 2007, she was diagnosed with a brain tumor that brought debilitating migraines and seizures. After years of treatment, medical breakthroughs, and unwavering faith, Jannet is thriving—and using her story to inspire others to reconnect with themselves through movement.
Her passion for mental health and behavior inspired her to earn a B.A. in Psychology, fueling her mission to integrate mind-body practices into every class, program, and project she leads.
Jannet’s choreography and creative direction have been featured across Los Angeles and beyond, collaborating with artists such as Jen Ash, Akwid and Fede Dorcaz ; leading creative projects like Cheat Day Land Pop-Up museum with Monster Energy; and appearing on The Lopez Tonight Show. Her work has been featured in VoyageLA, SDVoyager, and podcasts including Saludable Latina, Unspoken Truths and Girl Talk Y Mas, Alegria Magazine. She was honored as one of Los Angeles’s Top 100 Women of Impact for her work uplifting the community through Psych of Dance.