Offerings for Clinicians

I offer 1:1 mentorship and group learning experiences designed to help you understand the terrain of sacred plant medicine — especially Ayahuasca, psilocybin, and medicinal plant dietas — so you can better support your clients who are engaging with these experiences.

Whether you’re looking to offer preparation and integration support, or you're considering becoming more actively involved as a facilitator or ceremonial sitter, this work helps bridge your clinical skillset with traditional and experiential wisdom.

I work with licensed therapists, social workers, psychedelic integration coaches and facilitators, wellness and energy healing practitioners, etc.

Many of the folks I work with are at the very beginning of their journey with learning about psychedelics and how they can be a more trusted ally for their clients.

Others are already supporting clients engaging with psychedelics and are seeking deeper fluency, confidence, personal experience, and ethical clarity around sacred plant medicine.

And some are considering — or actively — undergoing training through indigenous-led apprenticeship themselves and want steady mentorship along the way from someone who is walking the path.

Most clinical psychedelic trainings are rooted in Western frameworks and often lack lived experience and initiation with indigenous traditions.

What I offer is grounded in over 8 years of direct experience with Ayahuasca and medicinal plant dietas under a respected Shipibo maestro in the Peruvian Amazon combined with a deep understanding of trauma-informed care and somatic integration.

I offer an intimate, learning container (with opportunity for legal firsthand experience with plant medicine if you'd like that through The Journeyer Core Training) for deepening your capacity to ethically and skillfully hold space for others engaging with powerful plant technologies.

While both roles exist to support people during psychedelic experiences, they are grounded in very different training lineages, levels of involvement during a session, and scopes of spiritual responsibility.

Psychedelic facilitator

A psychedelic facilitator is typically trained in Western, trauma-informed frameworks to offer a supportive, non-directive presence during psychedelic sessions. Their core role is to hold space with safety, neutrality, and unconditional positive regard.

• They do not ingest the medicine themselves.
• They offer minimal intervention during the experience.
• Their focus is on emotional support, consent, and containment.
• Common in clinical or retreat-style settings using psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, etc.

This role is essential and powerful; but it is different in scope from the path of a traditional plant medicine practitioner.

Plant medicine practitioner

A plant medicine practitioner is someone who has undergone in-depth apprenticeship within a traditional lineage (such as Shipibo curanderismo) and is trained to work with sacred plant medicines in a ceremonial setting.

• They often ingest the medicine during ceremony to access and see the energetic/spiritual realms and assist the participant directly.
• They may perform energetic interventions like clearing heavy energies, performing soul retrievals, and communicating with plant spirit guides to help the participant.
• They are trained to open and close energetic space, diagnose imbalances through spiritual perception, and work in direct collaborative relationship with the plants.

This is a spiritually active role requiring years of dieta, training, and permission from a teacher in the tradition (a maestra or maestro) or from the lineage.

While both roles aim to support transformation, one acts more as a compassionate witness, and the other as a ceremonial healer in co-relationship with the plants.

Understanding the distinction is vital (not to compare) but to know what kind of support you’re offering, receiving, or preparing for.

Yes. Many therapists and clinicians begin with curiosity, uncertainty (and even skepticism), or a desire to skillfully support clients while staying within their scope.

This is a space where you can ask questions, learn about the frameworks and spiritual traditions behind indigenous-led plant medicine, and explore whether this path is calling to you more personally or professionally.

No previous experience is required, just openness and respect.

This concern is deeply valid and one that is always on my mind.

I hold this work in profound reverence, with transparency and respect for the Shipibo lineage in which I was trained.

My intention is not to extract or repackage indigenous wisdom, but to honor it while helping Western practitioners understand how to approach it with humility, discernment, and care.

‍By successfully completing traditional training in the Shipibo tradition in the Amazon Jungle, I was given my Shipibo teacher Ricardo Amaringo's permission to guide others in this work, and I’m committed to teaching in a way that centers relational integrity and cultural respect.

I use the words 'shaman' and 'shamanic' because that is how my indigenous Shipibo teachers refer to the work they do with Ayahuasca.

Topics vary based on your experience and goals, but often include:

• Understanding the structure and purpose of plant medicine ceremony and deeper trainings.
• Ceremony etiquette, practitioner roles, and cultural context.
• Working with trauma and nervous system regulation in altered states.
• How to ethically support integration as a clinician.
• Building language that bridges mystical and clinical frameworks.
• Discerning scope of practice and knowing when to refer.

At this time, these offerings are not CE-certified.

That said, many clinicians find the experience deeply enriching, both personally and professionally, and apply what they’ve learned in clinical supervision and practice settings.

If you’re interested in future CE offerings, let me know. I’m currently exploring that pathway.