Sacramental Medicine Ceremonies
I create ceremonial safe spaces for deep soul maintenance.
Are you existing – instead of living?
The truth is, many people feel stuck in a life where they are expected to uphold a status quo instead of honoring the calling of their soul.
Have you “made it” – only to find yourself deflated?
If this is you, you’re not alone – even if it you feel stuck, are struggling, or find yourself dissatisfied for no clear reason.
Are you…
Feeling stuck, depressed, melancholy, incomplete, at a loss, or insignificant?
Asking big questions or questioning the meaning of everything?
Bored with life as you know it?
Experiencing a major life passage that has you wondering if there’s more to life than this?
Desiring to have more clarity, insight, or peace of mind?
Ready to experience a new perspective or point of view?
The answers you seek are not rational or logical.
They are soulful.
Soulful questions require a different strategy than the ones you’ve been using.
Because the reality is, you won’t find the solution you’re seeking by thinking harder or therapizing your way out of it.
The only way to find out what your soul needs is to meet it in the ring and let it speak to you.
This is where sacramental medicine can be a powerful ally. Why?
Because natural sacraments enable visionary encounters with your soul that help you see the bigger picture of your one precious life.
50 therapy sessions.
In one sitting.
A Conversation on Natural Sacraments
Modern Western society is experiencing a crisis of connection – from ourselves, each other, and the living world.
Humans evolved by connecting and cooperating with each other in community. But just as importantly, humans were in deep relationship with the surrounding environment – such that they recognized the ecosystem in which they lived as an extension of them.
Holistic wellness is not just an expression of optimal biological symptoms or an absence of illness. True health is a function of holistic and deeply interwoven social, economic, ecological systems that promote individual and collective well-being at multiple levels.
In other words: you can’t emphasize just one aspect of the self and see sustainable results unless you are giving equal weight to all the other areas and aspects of your beingness.
The same principle exists in nature.
In our modern world where humans are increasingly disconnected, isolated, and atomized from the collective, we are seeing an increase in ‘modern’ diseases such as depression, addiction, and anxiety.
The solution to many of these issues? Connection. To your soul, to your emotions, to your body, to your community, and to the natural world.
Far more than a passing trend, the sacraments I serve have been powerful medicinal agents healing humans for millennia. One of the most powerful benefits of working with natural sacraments is how they revitalize systems through redistribution and rebalancing of energy, resources, and essential nutrients. This ensures that depletion and extraction in one area aren’t taxing the overall system.
In the same way, these intelligent agents of healing help bring our internal systems into alignment – body, mind, and spirit – while reconnecting us with the larger energies of the world around us.
Natural sacraments are effective integrators and can provide emotional, psychological, and spiritual relief before more critical intervention is needed from a Western medical perspective.
While some might be skeptical of the idea that a mushroom is medicine, modern science is now catching up to what ancient cultures have known all along.
Sacramental medicines help you heal and become more at peace – inside and out.
Sacramental medicines provide a unique opportunity to experience considerable results with as little as one session.
The Benefits
Significant and sustained improvements in major depressive episodes and generalized anxiety disorders.
Significant potential for breakthroughs, catharsis, self-connection, and spiritual illumination.
Clarity and change around challenges and behaviors that have resisted traditional treatments.
Improved mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Reduction of addictive behavior patterns.
Manage the debilitating effects of loss, grief, and PTSD.
Ease existential anxiety regarding chronic illness.
Increase feelings of empathy, happiness, positivity, and possibility.
Trained. Licensed.
Experienced.
My training connects the practical and the profound.
My practice is infused and informed by deep training in technology, systems design, shamanic healing, integration support, energy cultivation, ceremony design, and expanded states of consciousness.
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BA in English, University of MN-Twin Cities (2009)
User Experience Design Certification through General Assembly, a global leader in technology bootcamps. (2013)Systems Thinking Training with Acumen. (2014)
Human-Centered Design Training with IDEO.org. (2014)
Hermetic Apprenticeship with Awno Ka. (2017)
Multiple initiations in my West African lineage by my teacher Mark Bockley and the Elders of Dagaraland. (2021 - 2025)
Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine with Atira Tan. (2023)
Psychedelic–Assisted Therapies Certification with VITAL. (2023)
Energetics of Psilocybin with Sam Perry, a clinical herbalist and educator. (2025)Bridge Program Minister Training and Licensure through the Congregation of Sacred Practices (2025)
10-Day Rites of Passage and Vision Quest with Truth as One Church (2025)
Understanding Personal Energy Class with Jesse Goldmark (2025)
Ongoing Sacramental Apprenticeship with my mentor and medicine woman Connie Magee (2024 - Present) -
I bow to all the teachers living and departed who have greatly influenced my thinking and work.
Of note, I wish to acknowledge and honor:Awno Ka, Amanda Foulger, Diego Palma, Mark and Kate Bockley, Malidoma Some, Martine Some, Narcisse Some, Nahillé, Denise Rose Battle, Ascentia Fox, Draupadi Gershewitch, David Braun, and Connie Magee.
Special shout out to my living and departed ancestors, Terence McKenna, Bayo Akomolafe, Daniel Odier, Maria Sabina, Martin Prechtel, and the Elders, Spirits, and Wisdom Keepers of Dagaraland.
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I am currently licensed as an Associate Minister through the Congregation for Sacred Practices, a spiritual community and 501(c)3 religious organization that works with sacramental medicines. CSP is based in San Francisco, Boulder, and Washington, D.C.
This provides both myself and the people I serve with more safety and support.
Your Private Ceremony
I am a trained and licensed psychedelic minister and shamanic practitioner who has worked with natural sacraments ceremonially for over a decade.
My approach combines both Western best practices to ensure your safety and wellbeing in addition to ceremonial nature-based rituals and a spiritual approach to make your personalized healing ceremony one-of-a-kind.
Private ceremonies are curated to your personal needs and goals while taking into consideration your unique background, lifestyle, social identity, and healing situation.
My intention as a psychedelic minister is to build a safe space and informed relationship with you through dedicated intake conversations, clear consent protocols, and trauma-informed facilitation and space holding during your ceremony. It is a privilege to be a supportive ally and guide for you on your healing path.
All private ceremonies include the following protocol (see below) to ensure that you are supported and prepared at every step of the process.
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This is the first step of your healing path.
Your confidential intake form provides me with a comprehensive overview of your current goals and needs, background and medical history, previous experience with entheogens, trauma history, and other important information that help us both determine whether this experience is a good fit for you and whether I am the right minister to support you.
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Once your intake form has been completed and we’ve had a 30-min intro call to confirm whether my approach is the right fit for you, you will pay your deposit and book your retreat date.
After that, we schedule your two intake calls. Your intake calls are where we dive deeper into your healing goals, needs, boundaries, and other essential considerations of your experience.
In this virtual call we will also determine clear consent agreements, talk through any fears or concerns, and design a personalized ceremony that meets you exactly where you are.
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Your private ceremony is a comprehensive and fully supported spiritual and shamanic experience at a private home in a gorgeous wilderness setting 30 miles south of Washington, D.C.
I will be your dedicated minister throughout the duration of your preparation process, personal ceremony, and integration.
Your ceremony includes supportive rituals and energetic exercises to prepare your body and spirit, a sound bath to help you enter the experience, a personalized playlist, and nourishing snacks and a meal to bring you back home to your body afterwards.
Depending on your desires and needs, your ceremony might also include time in nature.
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As a licensed minister, I am trained and experienced in providing ethical and trauma-informed care that considers every aspect of your experience.
Proper integration is essential to integrating your ceremony insights and helping you you digest and apply the lessons you received to enable meaningful change and transformation long-term.
Within 24 hours of your ceremony, I will send you a transcript of your session along with my notes and recommendations for how to best support yourself moving forward.This email also includes a link to schedule your two integration calls.
In your integration calls, we discuss what came up in your ceremony, explore your insights and reflections, and together find meaningful methods to weave these learnings into your life to enable significant and sustained change.
I also offer concierge upgrades for an additional fee for those who desire a truly exceptional experience.
If you desire an organic chef to make a delicious organic meal, an hour-long massage post-journey or a more in-depth integration process, I’m happy to offer these upgrades with support from my incredible network of practitioners.
Want to see if we’re a good fit?
My Approach
I support and empower your innate healing intelligence.
My ceremonies are designed to enhance and support your body’s living wisdom in doing what it does best.
This means that I take into consideration your needs, boundaries, previous experiences, trauma, and mental health history when designing your personal ceremony.
I don’t believe that everyone is suited for “big” experiences, nor do we require extreme sensation in order to heal.
It is easier to ingest more sacrament than it is to turn down the dial. My guiding ethos when working with sacramental medicine is to find the best dose for you.
It is easy and unfortunately quite common in our culture to abuse sacramental medicines, and doing so can create more trauma and suffering on top of what we are already working with.
As someone who felt I needed “big” experiences in order to heal, I’ve learned a lot about the power of gentleness and building our capacity to be with our experience, however it arises. This looks like helping the nervous system to regulate and relax in order to allow more healing to happen. This is where you will receive the best results – without forcing anything.
With that in mind, I work closely with you to create the conditions most conducive to your personal growth, healing, and wholeness, recognizing that how we meet our pain is one of the most essential keys to true healing.
Who I Serve
People like you are sitting with sacraments.
I work with all kinds of humans:
Highly successful professionals
Really cool parents
Burnt out leaders
Changemakers and creatives
People who feel dissatisfied but don’t know why
People struggling with depression, trauma, anxiety
People at major inflection points in their career
People navigating life transitions
Donation
$2500 USD
I value being transparent about my ministry and the value it provides. In order to better understand why I invite this donation for a private ceremony, please review my Money Statement.
If you are in significant distress and are unable to afford me at my regular rate, please reach out regardless. I am happy to talk about other accessible approaches that might benefit you, or refer you to others in my network who are better able to accommodate your needs.
Your Ceremony Includes
Confidential intake form evaluation
2 x 60 min intake calls
Private room and accommodations
Sound bath and personalized playlist
Facilitated ceremony
All ceremony supplies
Nourishing organic snacks
2 x 60 min integration calls
Coordination of care (optional)
