I support the healing transformation of those seeking a better quality of life via IFS Therapy and Psychedelic Integration Therapy as well as through educating others in these realms.
By drawing out the inner healing intelligence of each of my clients, I help them navigate their way to feeling better; towards having more clarity, confidence, courage, and calmness in their lives. My focus is primarily on healing deeply held childhood trauma and providing psychedelic education, integration, and harm reduction for those who choose to use psychedelics in a therapeutic way. I provide counseling to both users and non-users of psychedelics.
I am an IFS (Internal Family Systems) trained therapist and have found this model of therapy to be incredibly effective at supporting client’s transformation. This isn’t just “talk therapy.” IFS is an experiential model of therapy that works directly with the protective defensive systems and wounded parts of us. For integration purposes, IFS blends well with altered-states-experiences as these states often amplify parts of oneself that IFS can navigate.
I’ve had the privilege of building competency to provide Psychedelic Integration by training from MAPS Therapist Training Program, Compass Pathways Therapist Training, Fluence (Psychedelics for Clinician), and conferences such as Horizons and SOAP. In IFS land, I’ve completed several trainings to include Level 1 and Level 2, The Online Circle, and The Continuity Program.
I also have the great honor of working with a phenomenal team at the Aquilino Cancer Center in Rockville, MD involved in psychedelic research and clinical treatment. I initiated a MAPS sponsored Expanded Access site at Aquilino for the study of MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD, a research protocol approved by the FDA. At Aquilino’s state of the art healing center several other research studies with the use of MDMA, Psilocybin, and Ketamine are expected to occur over the next several years.
I not only see myself as a conduit of healing, but also an educator. Having a passion for both IFS and psychedelic therapy, I seek to inform and educate both therapists and the general public on the use of these modalities as tools for healing. I believe that these tools are effective for treating the entire range of experience, for those with significant trauma, as well as those seeking general improvement in wellbeing. I look forward to the day when psychedelics are legal, well understood for what they are and what they are not, and respected and honored for safe, intentional use.
