Hi! My name is Isabel. I have been learning to navigate expanded states since 1995, initially through dreams and shamanic journeying. I specialise in helping folks prepare their whole system (mind, psyche, and body) to navigate the psychedelic journey with agency and skill; to support their process of making meaning of their experience beyond the superficial layers; and create actionable plans for implementing sustainable positive changes in their lives. I love to go deep in individual sessions and work in groups, where we can engage the collective intelligence and co-create learning experiences. I believe that the purpose of integration is to help us transform insights into new ways of being in the world by embodying and practising skills and exercising individual agency.
I started working intentionally with psychedelics in 2005 and trained with Zendo in 2012. In 2014, I had a transformative experience holding space for a participant at Burning Man and realised I had found my calling. I decided to pursue this work full-time in 2018 when I went back to school to pursue my PhD in East-West Psychology at CIIS. In addition to my PhD work, I have an MA in Transformative Leadership, am a Trauma-Informed Positive Psychology Coach, an Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy practitioner, an Eco-psychologist, and a Shamanic practitioner in the Maya Ki'che' tradition. The subject of my PhD dissertation is “The Effect of Psychedelics on People’s Experience of Eco-Anxiety”.