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).

I’ve taught with five psychedelic facilitator training programs, including Naropa University and Inner Trek, a pioneering legal psilocybin facilitator training program based 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.

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)

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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 and supervision for psychedelic therapists, facilitators, and guides.

  • I facilitate men’s groups and healing retreats

  • I speak at conferences, events, and on podcasts

  • I write books

  • I teach psychedelic facilitation and integration for various training organizations, including Inner Trek

  • I lead psychedelic retreats and private journeys

“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 + 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.

BA, Anthropology + Religion
University of Vermont, 2011

Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator Training
Inner Trek, 2022-2023

Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Training, Level 1
Polaris Insight Center, 2023

Psilocybin-Assisted Facilitator Training, Levels 1-2
MycoMeditations, 2021

Internal Family Systems Therapy Training, Level 1
IFS Institute, 2021

Certificate in Ecopsychology
Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2019

International Guide Training
National Geographic Student Expeditions, 2016

Overseas Educator Training
Carpe Diem Education, 2015-2016

Curandero Initiation Course
The Ayahuasca Foundation, 2015

Now Available

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My Book:

Psychedelics and the Soul: A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair

““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.”

-David Bronner, CEO of Dr. Bronner’s Soap Company