Hi, I’m Simon.
I help psychedelic facilitators, therapists, and healers reconnect to the liminal wilds of the soul.
Depth Psychotherapist ✺ Psychedelic Educator ✺ Author
I’m an internationally experienced psychedelic therapist, educator, and author of Psychedelics and the Soul: A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair (North Atlantic Books, 2024).
With a masters in depth counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, I’ve taught for a variety of psychedelic training programs, including CIIS, Naropa University and Inner Trek, a pioneering legal psilocybin facilitator training program in Oregon. My work integrates Jungian psychology, mythology, and Internal Family Systems therapy, focusing on psychedelic integration, masculinity, and depth psychology.
My journey began with anthropological research in an Aboriginal Australian community at the age of twenty. Today, my approach to healing is informed by these diverse experiences traveling and learning from Indigenous cultures, including the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition and the Native American Church. I’ve served as a retreat leader and therapist at MycoMeditations, a leading psilocybin therapy retreat center in Jamaica, for a year and a half. Before becoming a therapist, I worked as an experiential educator and guide, leading study-abroad programs across ten countries.
Psychedelics are not about improving mental health.
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“While the so-called psychedelic renaissance is just beginning, the roots of these liminal traditions of plant medicine and inner exploration thread their way down into the foundations of human cultures and their mythic traditions. As the fledgling field of modern psychedelic healing continues to spread its wings, unless we remember to look back toward the soul, toward more ancient ways of knowing, and toward the earth itself, we risk flying perilously close to the sun.”
An excerpt from Psychedelics and the Soul
What I do:
I offer courses and trainings for soulful psychedelic healers interested in learning about depth psychology, myth, animism, and the animate earth
I publish articles and run a monthly Mythopoetic Integration Circle on Substack
I offer mentorship, coaching, and supervision for psychedelic therapists, facilitators, and guides
I lead psychedelic retreats and journeys
I speak at conferences, events, and on podcasts
I write books
I teach psychedelic facilitation and integration for various training programs like Inner Trek
“The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Training and Education
MA, Depth Counseling Psychology
Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2020
Masters Thesis: Lost Rites: Decolonizing Masculinity Through Psychedelic Initiation, Liminality, and Integration. Published via ProQuest. Available upon request.
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BA, Anthropology + Religion
University of Vermont, 2011
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Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator Training
Inner Trek, 2022-2023
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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Training, Level 1
Polaris Insight Center, 2023
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Psilocybin-Assisted Facilitator Training, Levels 1-2
MycoMeditations, 2021
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Internal Family Systems Therapy Training, Level 1
IFS Institute, 2021
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Certificate in Ecopsychology
Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2019
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International Guide Training
National Geographic Student Expeditions, 2016
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Overseas Educator Training
Carpe Diem Education, 2015-2016
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Curandero Initiation Course
The Ayahuasca Foundation, 2015
About My Book:
Psychedelics and the Soul is a mythological journey through 10 archetypes of psychedelic healing: ancient stories, tangible tools, and depth psychology insights.
Designed for a new generation of psychedelic facilitators and seekers, Psychedelics and the Soul invokes the traditions of Jungian depth psychology, mythology, and Indigenous cultural wisdom to meet a critical question of our times: How can the emerging field of psychedelic medicine heal the soul amid planetary crisis and collective opportunity?
“Holy wow, I can’t wait to recommend Psychedelics and the Soul to everyone I know. It’s the perfect book at the perfect time.”