Question 1

What kind of training do you have/modalities do you use?

Accepted Answer

I utilize an eclectic, co-creative approach with each unique person I encounter. Specialty areas in which I hold advanced training, education, and practice experience include:Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT)Certified Psychedelic-Assisted TherapistTrained by various institutions (IPI, InnerTrek, Fluence, Journey Clinical, DoubleBlind, Naropa, and others) didactically and experientially with hours exceeding licensure requirements in Colorado and Oregon (though no formal licensure obtained for PAT in either state)Internal Family Systems (IFS)IFS Level 2 Trained; Intimacy From The Inside Out (IFIO) TrainedCurrently (May 2026) engaged in IFIO special topic on Love, Autism, & ADHDEye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) TherapyEMDR Certified Therapist since 2022EMDR Therapy Consultant-In-TrainingI engage in ongoing training to keep current on emerging and evolving EMDR protocols and practices, including blending this into other frameworks such as for use in psychedelic-assisted therapy and/or as integrated with other therapeutic modalities such as IFS or Somatic Experiencing practices. Speaking of...Somatic ExperiencingMost recently completed Advanced 1 (Year 3 of the program) in May 2026; Advanced II training (Final Module) to be completed in Colorado in November 2026Moving toward becoming a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner through personal sessions, ongoing education, consultations, etc. I engage in ongoing training and also direct consultation and my own somatic therapeutic support to continue building skills and competency in this work.Other notable areas of niche training that I often integrate with these models you might say I particularly "specialize" in include:
expressive arts, music, and listening therapy modalities and practices
a variety of leading-edge, neurobiologically-informed, somatic, movement- and body-based practices
play therapy, including modalities such as sandtray and Playful EMDR
psychodrama, Gestalt, and other experiential modalities
Jungian shadow work, symbolic exploration, dream interpretation
integration of ritual, as well as spiritual and cultural practices held with reverence and supportive integration in ways you describe as meaningful to you
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Positive Psychology
both of the totally unrelated EFTs: Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping) as well as Emotionally-Focused TherapyP.S. - good grief, why are there so many initialisms and acronyms in this field that we are even duplicating them?!
anti-oppressive, decolonizing frameworks, as well as adaptations to empirically-supported practices to meet unique constellations of needs across populations, to underpin all work
advanced ethical discernment and critical analysis, including regular consultation across modalities, identities, skill levels, approaches, etc.
Some particularly specific lived experiences I have specialized training and practice experience supporting people in exploring include:
Attachment-based harm, developmental disruption, and other cascading, compounding experiences that lead to the manifestation of what we might call "clinically significant" complex trauma-related systemic responses
Those living at the intersections of neurodiversity & LGBTQIA2S+-identified
Survivors of war, terror, and torture
Relational systems of a variety of compositions and structures, including most frequently though by no means limited to: romantic partnerships at any stage, whether dyadic or more expansive systemsethical and consensual monogamy, polyamory, relationship anarchykink, BDSM, tantra, somatic sexuality, psychedelic sexual exploration, power play, impact play, identity playFamilial systems both conventional conceptualizations and otherwise, from sibling-sibling relationships to family of choice, kin, communal support, and/or other ways of supporting one another in development, aging, and living together supportively and synergisticallyCaregiver-care receiver relationships of varying sizes and configurationscolleague/team relationships across a variety of professional fields and industriesfriend-friend and other relationships where it can be useful to consider different ways of connecting beyond "just" romantic relationships - let's co-create!
People who dissociate significantly, including those who carry the diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder
High-control entity experiences, such as cult recovery and religion deconstruction
Survivors of trafficking, including exposure to force, fraud, coercion, and/or the threat thereof
People who have experienced sexual trauma, including child sexual abuse and incestWhile it is most important to me to understand your unique lived experiences and how you want to be held and witnessed in baring your soul and courageously sharing the ways you move in the world and in relationship to self, other, and the interconnected collective, I also have lived experiences across several of these categories above, which I am happy to share more around if that is important to you to know about me in relation to feeling safe, seen, and supported.

Question 2

Do I have to talk about trauma directly?

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Not necessarily, though I am ever spacious if you are needing your story to be heard and held with care and compassion. 🌻We can approach things indirectly, focus on building capacity first, and/or attend to present-day patterns rather than historical harms if that feels most useful to you. You are always in charge of your disclosure, including if my renowned penchant for deep, probing, curious questions stretches you beyond what feels tolerable or safe to share at any time. I do not take offense to you asserting boundaries based on your self-knowing; in fact, we would celebrate that together!In such cases, we might explore the process itself instead of the trauma content, tapping into what that felt unease, tenderness, fear, concern, and/or other hesitancies mean. I do believe that, oftentimes, as they say: "if it's in the way, it is the way."We know, though, that slow is fast in the kind of work that we will do together, and I honor wherever your capacity is when you arrive each time, and will patiently hold space for you to engage whatever level depth of discovery into which you wish to delve along our journey together. After all, while I offer unique gifts and strengths, you are the expert of you, and you are hiring me to work with and for you!There also are specific modalities in which I am trained that allow us to explore the ineffable in an embodied way. I approach the work holistically, including incorporating therapeutic approaches that do not require you to speak very much at all.I am committed to partnering with you to determine a right-fit pathway forward based on your best hopes with consideration for your wellbeing and circle of capacity. We also have evidence that it is never too late to expand your range of resiliency so the container within yourself is strong and sturdy and spacious enough to hold the whole story underpinning your past, present, and future.

Question 3

Do you provide psychedelic substances for journeying?

Accepted Answer

I work through a harm reduction lens, and do not provide medicine or drugs to anyone I am working with. You are required to go through prescribers and other legal acquisition channels for various types of therapeutic support that relate to non-ordinary states.While I am trained to understand how to support you in your experience, and I will walk beside you in the choices you are making on your own volition with nonjudgment, education and information to share, testing knowledge and support, and training that helps me keep you safe and feeling held in this sacred work, I draw firm boundaries around activities that go beyond harm reduction, such as providing substances to anyone, or even to directly recommending/endorsing the use of said substances.While I cannot and will not provide substances, specific advice, medical guidance, dosing recommendations, or engage in other actions that directly contravene professional ethics or violate the law, to support you as you actualize your autonomously-made choices to expand and explore consciousness is meaningful to me, as my clearest calling in this life is to reduce suffering and harm on our planet.I will strongly endorse along the path that you consult with proper legal and medical professionals for ensuring your health and wellbeing, safety, as well as support for any testing, titration, or other shifts may need to happen in preparation for a journey, whether moving toward trying to sign up for a clinical trial or beginning to explore personally exploring this expansive realm of healing.I will work with your existing prescribers and providers to co-create a supportive way for you to explore the paths that your inner wisdom leads you to walk. I am honored to engage and help co-construct connections within and across your circles of support (versus working in isolation) as that tends to support the safest, most expansive experiences.

Question 4

Will you work with my prescribing provider for ketamine-assisted therapy sessions?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and in fact this is the way I work to facilitate ketamine-assisted psychotherapy experiences since I am a non-prescriber! Care coordination follows the same fee structure as session time. I often work in close partnership with practitioners who can prescribe you sublingual ketamine lozenges/troches that you will self-administer in my office while I provide a safe container and support for your journeying experiences, typically 3 "therapeutic hours" of time at 2 hours and 30 minutes, with the expectation that you have transportation to and from my office and an invitation to enjoy resting for the remainder of the time left in that day post-journey.This typically is what we engage in for regular sessions over the course of a few weeks or months (dosing days ideally happen within 18 days of one another based on our best evidence of compounding gains). We will co-create a plan along with other members of your circle of support based on your unique context, needs, and goals, evaluating progress and adjusting as needed along the way.It is also important to know that we will also schedule an integration session within 24-72 hours of our journey sessions, which is arguably the most important element of the process since it allows for the richest opportunities to more intentionally consider and catalyze new ways of thinking, being, doing, exploring, learning, and relating to yourself, others, and the world around you. This is an important ethical commitment rather one to economically enrich me, so please be advised based on principle and what we know helps practitioners in this currently-tenuous and largely unregulated space be more helpful than harmful.It is a meaningful experience for me to walk alongside you in this process; consciousness exploration to catalyze self-discovery and self-actualization is over and over again affirmed to be some of my life's most gratifying work. I strive to maintain a humble, curious stance as we work together to bring forward the meaningful, sustainable transformation and alignment you seek.

Frequently Expressed Wonderments

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