Meet Emma
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I am a Mother, a partner, a family member, a dear friend, and a community member. I am a lover of embodiment and movement, dance and play. I cherish my time alone in the forest and I come alive in a crowd moving to live music. I am forever working on finding the balance between seriousness and play, and I strive to walk with soft power.
My path to doing this work started early in life. At the age of 8, my parent took me to a local Medicine Woman who would teach me how to understand, live with, and manage the sensitivities I was often overwhelmed by. I was blessed with family members who fostered my spiritual growth and were (and still are) my first teachers. When I was 12, I knew I wanted to be a therapist. Growing up in a family that was strongly impacted by intergenerational trauma, I developed a skill set of deep noticing and saw the healing potential of good therapy. Through my own trauma healing journey (which continues today), I started the work of transmuting the wounds of intergenerational trauma into powerful tools for healing. I went to college and graduate school for counseling psychology, with a special focus on holistic and integrative approaches to healing. I have now run a private practice since 2017 working with survivors of childhood trauma and I am humbled every day to witness the strength, vulnerability, and transformation of the souls who I sit with.
Psychedelics intersected with my professional path in 2019, when a friend told me that people were starting to get trained in how to use MDMA to treat trauma. I immediately applied for the program he sent me, and I haven't looked back since. I feel it is my ethical duty to learn and offer my clients the best possible care to support them in their healing journey. I believe that psychedelic work in combination with client-centered, body-based, relational psychotherapy is the best option currently available for treating the manifestations of trauma. It is my deep honor to be a steward and student of these medicines.
Training
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IFS-Informed Somatic Trauma Therapy, Frank Anderson & The Embody Lab, 2026
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Psycho-Social Support for Psilocybin Facilitation, USONA Institute, 2025
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The Art of the Healing Voice, Cáit Branigan & Grof Transpersonal Training, 2024
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Spiritual Emergency, Diana Medina & Grof Transpersonal Training, 2024
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The Vessels of Soul's Wisdom, Cáit Branigan & Grof Transpersonal Training, 2023
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Cultivating the Seat of the Guide, Valeria McCarroll, 2023
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Psilocybin Facilitation, Alma Institute, 2023
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Like a Pro: The Wheel of Consent for Professionals, Betty Martin, 2023
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Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism, Resmaa Menakem, 2023 & 2021
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Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems, Frank Anderson, 2021
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Psychedelic Peer Support, Zendo Project, 2019
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MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD, MAPS/Lykos, 2019 - 2025
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Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, Helios Wellness, 2019
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Psychedelic Assisted Therapies and Research, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2019
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Trauma-Stewardship, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky, 2017
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Level 1, 2017
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Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Bastyr University, 2017
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Health at Every Size, 2017
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Eat Breathe Thrive: Yoga for Eating Disorder Recovery, 2016
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200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, The Yoga School, 2015
Much of my advanced training comes through private mentorship with practitioners and teachers who's work and way of moving in the world I respect and admire.
I am honored to consider myself a student of: Cáit Branigan, Robin Shapiro, Betty Martin, Cyndi Dale, Valeria McCarroll, Mysti Coccia-Eddy, David Shen-Miller, Janet Colli, and the medicine people who will remain unnamed who have supported me along my journey.