at Skylight Psychedelics in Evergreen, CO as well as via Telehealth and travel to Vermont, New York, and North Carolina, where I am licensed to practice. finding parts of myself, and began my psychotherapy career in Brooklyn, NY doing substance abuse treatment as an alternative to incarceration. I moved back home to Vermont for a stint in psychiatric emergency room work and then began a private practice for many years while working on my family farm. In 2021, I discovered the year-round sunshine of Raleigh and transitioned my practice to North Carolina, where I got certified in Psychedelic Therapy and now practice Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy. I was a Sane Ukraine Project volunteer for eighteen months, weekly training fifty Ukrainian psychological resilience and trauma educators via video and translators to facilitate ongoing coping and recovery tools in the midst of war, at times pausing sessions for air raids. I graduated summa cm laude from Georgia State University with a BS in Psychology and did my graduate work in Psychological Counseling at Columbia University Teachers College in New York City and graduated magna cm laude with Master of Education and Master of Arts degrees, with a focus on multiculturally-competent counseling, career counseling, group work, and psychology and spirituality. None of this would have been achievable nor of use to me without the support and gentle confrontation of excellent psychotherapists and plant medicine to heave myself out of old, destructive thought and behavior patterns.
