Private Ceremony
A Supported Sacred Space
Wake up your soul.
Are you existing – instead of living?
We are living in a culture that is diseased.
Many people feel stuck, disconnected, depressed, deflated.
You’ve climbed the prescribed mountains, achieved and succeeded.
Your life is full and yet strangely empty, lacking a clear heartbeat.
You are expected to strive and uphold a status quo instead of honoring the calling of your soul.
Have you made it – only to find yourself deflated?
This is a sign of spirit sickness.
Humans aren’t made to exist like this.
You are not wrong – the system you inhabit is.
It’s time to reconnect with your innate aliveness.
Welcome to the Portal
The answers you seek are not rational or logical.
They are soulful.
Are you…
Bored or dissatisfied with life as you know it?
Feeling stuck, depressed, melancholy, incomplete, at a loss, or insignificant?
Asking big questions or questioning the meaning of everything?
Experiencing a major life threshold or transition?
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?
50 therapy sessions.
In one sitting.
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.
Trained. Licensed.
Experienced.
My training bridges the practical and the profound.
My psychedelic ministry is infused with over a decade of combined experience as a ceremonial ritualist and shamanic practitioner.
All of my transformational work is informed by deep training in technology, systems design, shamanic healing, personal energy cultivation, facilitation, psychedelic integration, oracular divination, 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)
The Way of the Shaman Training with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (2018)
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)
Medicine Apprenticeship with Connie Magee (2024 - 2025)
Energetics of Psilocybin with Sam Perry, a clinical herbalist and educator. (2025)
10-Day Rite of Passage and Vision Quest with Truth as One Church (2025)
Bridge Program Minister Training and Licensure through the Congregation of Sacred Practices (2025)
Understanding Personal Energy Class with Jesse Goldmark (2025 - Ongoing) -
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.
The Alchemy
I support and empower your body’s innate healing intelligence.
My ceremonies are designed to enhance and support your body’s innate 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 sacraments is to create an experience and dose that is deeply attuned to you.
It is easy and unfortunately quite common in our culture to abuse sacraments of all kinds, 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.
How we meet ourselves is one of the most essential keys to true healing.
In Experienced Hands
I have worked personally with psilocybin for 15 years, and started offering private and group ceremonies in 2022.
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 personal ceremony is a comprehensive and fully supported sacred experience at a private home in a wilderness setting outside of Washington, D.C.
I am your dedicated minister throughout your preparation process, personal ceremony, and integration.
Your ceremony includes supportive rituals and integration 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 ground you 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 integration counseling.
Proper integration is essential to integrating your insights and finding meaningful ways to apply your lessons to enable sustainable transformation long-term.
In your integration calls, we discuss what came up in your ceremony, explore reactions and reflections, and design ways to weave change into your everyday.
I offer concierge upgrades for an additional fee for those who desire a truly exceptional experience. If you desire a private chef to make a delicious organic meal, an hour-long massage post-journey or a more in-depth integration process, I’m happy to discuss.
A conversation to open the door.
People like you
are sitting with sacraments.
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
People who desire more wonder, connection, inner peace, and joy
Investment
2750 - 4000 USD
I offer a sliding fee scale to value this work at the level of energy, expertise, skillfulness, and safety it demands while still offering accessible options. In order to better understand why I price my work the way I do, 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.
