My Training and Development

I believe there is no single training programme that can prepare you to be a good therapeutic guide. For me, it requires life experience, shadow work (i.e. making one's unconscious parts conscious), extensive experience with the substance(s) one is working with, and the active cultivation of qualities I mention in the About: Hi section. Further, it has become clear to me that conventional talk therapy certainly isn't the only way to heal, and increasingly I see working solely at the level of the rational mind as being of limited value. Indeed, as an over-thinker in recovery, I've come to appreciate that our memories, blocks, emotions, and traumas largely live in the body, and so need to be accessed and released through the body. We can't simply think our way to betterment (despite telling ourselves better stories being an essential element of any any process). This is why I'm drawn to tools and frameworks that work with and around the protective stories of the ego mind/protective parts - psychedelics, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, etc. - in order to target the emotional root and let our innate healing wisdom, evolved over millions of years, work its magic.

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As there is no single programme that incorporates everything across my 7 Lens approach, I decided to create my own curriculum based on a combination of cutting-edge research and ancient wisdom, bringing together the intellectual with the experiential, and where the foundation was my own deep transformation and healing process, which continues. Below is the curriculum, which I apply to both my psychedelic and therapeutic coaching work.