Integral Psychedelic Therapy Training

Genesee Herzberg, PsyD (she/they) is a clinical psychologist from the California Bay Area with a doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She co-founded Sage Integrative Health, a holistic psychedelic clinic, and Alchemy Community Therapy Center, a non-profit, sliding scale psychedelic clinic and internship training program. She is a trainer and supervisor in ketamine-assisted therapy through Sage and MDMA-assisted therapy through MAPS. Genesee is an author and co-editor of the book Integral Psychedelic Therapy. She is passionate about making psychedelic medicine accessible to everyone who can benefit, developing innovative body-centered approaches to psychedelic healing, and promoting ethics and integrity as psychedelics go mainstream. Genesee identifies as white, queer, and gender fluid. She is a long-term meditation practitioner and lover of hot springs, dance, consciousness exploration, meandering walks through the redwoods, and feminist sci fi.

Genesee's Selected Presentations, Podcast Interviews & Publications:

• On Transformational Ketamine Therapy and Running an Integrative Psychedelic Clinic, Business Trip Podcast
• How to Build an Ethical Psychedelic Clinic, The Psychedelic Therapy Podcast
• Psychotherapy of the Future: The Path Toward Becoming a Psychedelic Therapist, Chacruna Community Forum
• The Phenomenology and Sequelae of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy, MAPS Psychedelic Science Conference, April 2013
• Blinded by the White: Addressing Power and Privilege in Psychedelic Medicine. Herzberg, G. & Butler, J. (2019), Chacruna.
• Sage Institute: A Model for Accessible Psychedelic Therapy and Training. Herzberg, G. & Valdez, H., MAPS Bulletin Spring 2020: Vol. 20, No. 1.
• Towards an Ethos of Equity & Inclusion in the Psychedelic Movement. (2019) Chacruna

Jason Butler, PhD (he/him) is a licensed clinical psychologist, a psychotherapist and supervisor at Sage Integrative Health, and an associate professor in the Integral Counseling Psychology department at CIIS. His therapeutic approach and teaching orientation is an integration of archetypal, relational, somatic, and liberation frameworks, with a lifelong interest in the study of dreams and the engagement of imagination in healing practices. He is deeply committed to broadening diversity, accessibility, and theoretical rigor in the field of psychedelic psychotherapy. In 2019, he co-founded Alchemy Community Therapy Center, the first non-profit low-fee ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic in the country. He has written several articles and chapters on depth psychology, psychedelic therapy, and social justice. He is the author of a book entitled Archetypal Psychotherapy: The Clinical Legacy of James Hillman and is the co-editor and co-author of a newly released book entitled Integral Psychedelic Therapy: The Non-Ordinary Art of Psychospiritual Healing (link here). Jason identifies as white, queer, and gender fluid. He is a born-again pagan, feminist, raver, and punk rock kid, and a lover of trees, poetry, cats, music, and dance. He is a passionate teacher and stands proudly in a long maternal line of school teachers.

Published Books:

Integral Psychedelic Therapy: The Non-Ordinary Art of Psychospiritual healing. New York: Routledge. (purchase book here)

Archetypal psychotherapy: The clinical legacy of James Hillman. New York: Routledge.


Published Articles and Book Chapters:

Blinded by the White: Addressing Power and Privilege in Psychedelic Medicine. Chacruna Chronicles.

Western Holistic Counseling. In P. Dunlap (Ed.) Holistic Healing: Theories, Research, and Practices. Canadian Scholars

Turning the World to Glass: Poetic Sensibility and Decolonizing the Imagination. International Journal of Jungian Studies.

Gnawing at the Roots: Toward a Poetics of Guilt and Death. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies.

Electronic dance music and the indomitable imagination. In B. Bright (Ed.) Depth Psychology and the Digital Age. Depth Insights Press

Alchemical Hermeneutics: Differentiating the Polyphony of Voices in the Work. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches. 7(3): 300-307.

Review of "China on the mind." Fort Da. Fall.

Beginning with Image. Journal of Archetypal Studies. 2.

The Shadow of Yoga: Reflections on the Soul/Spirit Distinction. Depth Insights. Fall

For more information about publications see my academia.edu profile.

Elowyn Samadhi, PhD (she/her) is a licensed clinical psychologist, Colorado clinical psilocybin facilitator in training, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). She specializes in the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related disorders. She has provided ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) for 5 years and currently provides legal psilocybin-assisted therapy in Colorado. Dr. Samadhi has worked in the field of psychedelics for a decade. She served as an independent rater for the Phase II and III MAPS MDMA trials for 4 years and began providing post-IV ketamine integration in 2015 at Mass General Hospital. Dr. Samadhi completed Polaris Insight Center’s KAP training, MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy training, UC-Berkeley’s Advanced Psychedelic Facilitator Training Certification as well as the Memoru/Naropa Psychedelic Facilitation Training Program. Dr. Samadhi served as lead psilocybin therapist and trainer for the UCSD phantom limb pain clinical trial from 2022-2024. She has presented for Alchemy Community Therapy Center, Beckley Academy, and Chacruna. She supervises and mentors several psychedelic therapists-in-training and provides consultation to licensed therapists. Dr. Samadhi has a passion for teaching somatic therapy, safe and reparative touch work, working with complex trauma, as well as the ritual and spiritual praxis of guiding. Elowyn identifies as biracial and bisexual and the bedrock of her spiritual path is non-dual, tantric, animistic, and pagan.

Media & Public Speaking:

Medium:

Moral Injury and Systemic Betrayal in the U.S.

An Allyship Mediation You Can Use Right Now

In Times of Uncertainty, What is Knowable? An Exercise.

Psychedelics Today:

Can Psychedelics Help Heal Moral Injury?

Podcast Episodes:

"Psychedelics for Healing Trauma and Depression" Diving Into Healing Podcast, San Diego Psychological Association

"Using Psychedelics to Treat Trauma" Psychedelic Science for the People Podcast

"The Fallout Of When Systems Betray Us: Moral Injury and Complex PTSD" (Dr. Samadhi moderating, with guests Dr. Julian Ford and Dr. Valentina Stoycheva), International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

"Psychedelic Assisted Therapies" on Sluts and Scholars Podcast

Panel Speaking Engagements:

Expert Q&A at the screening of the film (2022) "Dosed: The Trip of A Lifetime," with Dr. Arsalan Azam

Beckley Academy (2023) "Foundations of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Expert Panel" with Danielle Herrera and Ridhi Shiv

Beckley Academy (2024) "How to Hold Space: Considerations for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy" with Danielle Herrera and Dr. Stephanie Van Hope

Chacruna Psychedelic Culture Conference (2024) "Touch in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: Ethical Considerations and Harm Reduction" with Dr. Genesee Herzberg, Dr. Jamie Beachy, and Q Maxwell

Margaret Brako, LCSW (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker with a Masters from New York University. She provides psychotherapy and Ketamine Assisted Therapy at Sage Integrative Health, as well as program development for their training program. Margaret received a certificate in psychedelic therapy from Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI), trained in MDMA-Assisted therapy with MAPS, and is now a lecturer for IPI. Her psychotherapy practice emphasizes trauma-informed, relational, culturally-responsive, and mindfulness-based approaches to healing. For seven years, Margaret worked in community-based programs, helping unhoused and underserved populations manage depression, trauma, and psychosis. Margaret's work is informed by her identities as a queer, Black woman and a first-generation American. Margaret grew up in Minnesota, loves listening to audiobooks, dancing tango, and learning to play cello.

Danielle M. Herrera, LMFT (she/her) is an Ohlone Land (Oakland) based psychotherapist providing psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (KAT), psychedelic integration, and harm reduction psychotherapy in private practice, and previously at Sage Integrative Health. Danielle is also a course facilitator with Beckley Academy teaching practitioners the foundations of psychedelic assisted therapies, and a supervisor and clinical consultant for Alchemy Community Therapy Center, where she served as a ketamine assisted therapist for underrepresented populations. Danielle has extensive history in working with "addictions", recovery, and harm reduction with The Harm Reduction Therapy Center and with Dr. Jennifer Fernandez at the California Center for Change. Her experience with these organizations alongside her early work with the Homeless Children's Network informs her warm and emotion-focused decolonized framework, with attunement to systemic oppressions and violences that impact the individual within a complicated ecosystem. Danielle enjoys working with families, couples in monogamous and ethically non-monogamous shaping alike, and individuals experiencing spiritual emergence or exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness, Queer & Trans BIPOC, people who use drugs, and others outside of the mainstream. Danielle identifies as Queer, Mixed Indigenous and Filipino, and devoted to her spiritual tradition of Inayati Sufism. She is a grown-up punk kid, voracious poetry reader and writer, and student of ceremonial magick.

Danielle's Selected Presentations, Podcast Interviews & Publications:

Modern Anarchy: "Trusting in Love: Drugs, Spirituality, and Decolonizing Psychedelic Therapy"

Psychedelic Seminars: "Decolonization, Collective Liberation & International Solidarity"

KSQD: "Magic Mushrooms as Therapy"

The Trip Report: "Beckley Academy: Charting the Course for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy"

"Recap: Addiction & Recovery Invitational Gathering (December 2022)"

Alta Journal: "The Gentrification of Consciousness"

#Sensible2021: "Uplifting Latina/e Voices in the Psychedelic Space"
Al Jazeera's The Stream: "Are magic mushrooms going mainstream?"