Bios/Profiles
Wilhelmina De Castro
Wilhelmina De Castro, LCSW (She/They) is Integrate's founder and is trained in KAP (Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy) through PRATI (Psychedelic Research and Training Institute) and MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy through MAPS. They support organizations in building justice, equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives, systems and cultures. Wilhelmina also serves as PRATI's interim Executive Director and is a lead therapist in a Psilocybin phase 3 clinical trial for Treatment Resistant Depression…
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Allison (Alli) Feduccia, PhD
Allison (Alli) Feduccia, PhD, (She/Her) is a neuropharmacologist, psychedelic researcher, and educator. She is the Co-Founder + CEO of Psychedelic Support, a platform for education and connection to psychedelic practitioners, and a scientific advisor for Project New Day and the Etheridge Foundation, 501(c)3 nonprofits dedicated to helping people overcome addiction and actualize mental health through the responsible use of psychedelics. She began researching MDMA in 2004 and has worked on mental…
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Rachel Lynn Golden, PhD
Rachel Lynn Golden, PhD (She/They/Them) is a Clinical Psychologist whose work centers gender-affirming and inclusive practices with gender and sexuality-expansive individuals and their families, and with gender and sexuality expansive-individuals who are incarcerated. Rachel developed the New York State Transgender Identity Program at the New York State Office of Mental Health that provided gender-affirming mental health care to individuals incarcerated within the NYS Department of Corrections and Community…
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Alex Horton
Alex Horton (She/They/He) is an Army SOF combat Veteran who spent ten years on active duty within the Special Operations community, during which she led the unit’s Cultural Support Team program and deployed on numerous combat cycles with the 75th Ranger Regiment, and other Tier 1 organizations. She played a key role in the selection of women within the Special Operations community and assisted in policy changes regarding women’s integration into male-centric Special Operations teams…
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Urana Jackson
Urana Jackson (She/Her) is a space holder, healing justice practitioner, and psychotherapist. She has worked in community-based mental health for over 25 years, and most recently oversaw the mental health programming for middle schools in Oakland Unified School District. She was an instructor for a course on Restorative Justice for 18 years at UC Berkeley School of Law’s, Summer Legal Fellowship Program. Urana is the published author of Girls Rising (Parallax Press, 2015) and the creator…
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Rebecca Martinez
Rebecca Martinez (She/Her) is a Chicana writer, community organizer, and social entrepreneur living in Portland, Oregon. Rebecca’s work explores the intersections between collective healing, systems design, and expanded states of consciousness. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Alma Institute, a nonprofit educational institution and legal psilocybin facilitator training program She is also the Co-Founder…
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Moana Meadows
Moana Meadow, MA, MDiv, (She/Her) brings experience as a birth doula, hospice chaplain, spiritual director, and psychedelic guide. She was ordained as an interfaith minister at the Chaplaincy Institute, where she served as guest faculty and academic advisor until 2018. She later served as executive director of a non-profit church focused on plant medicine traditions, and participated in the early development of the Sacred Plant Alliance. She has studied with Indigenous elders in the United States and Mexico…
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Danielle Nova
Danielle Nova (She/Her) is the Founder of Psychedelic Recovery, Executive Director of the San Francisco Psychedelic Society and Co-founder of the Microdosing Facilitator Training. Danielle serves as a leading advocate, educator, and guide in the psychedelic field, specializing in addiction recovery, microdosing, and spiritual transformation. With over six years of professional experience, she has impacted over 15K individuals worldwide through comprehensive education programs and integration services…
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Sara Provence
Sara Provence (She/Her) is a queer LMFT based out of San Diego, CA (Kumeyaay land). Sara recently took on the role of Program Director for Integrate, a mental wellness collective based out of San Diego that is committed to increasing access to ketamine-assisted treatment for BIPOC and queer folx. Prior to taking on the role of Program Director, Sara has been a collaborating therapist supporting many of Integrate’s psychedelic offerings, including: retreats, group medicine journeys, a 10 week…
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Dr. Diana Quinn
Dr. Diana Quinn (She/Her) is a licensed naturopathic doctor and psychedelic educator. Dr. Quinn is a queer Chicana with nearly 20 years of healing justice service to BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and other underserved communities. She is the Director of Clinical Education at the Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies. In the emerging field of psychedelic medicine, she works to build more just, ethical, and safe approaches to delivery of care. Her work in psychedelic education centers historically excluded communities, offering…
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Zach Riggle
Zach’s (He/Him) core purpose is to help people find a better way to heal. After eleven years and four combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as a Marine/Marine Raider, Zach decided it was time to come back home. He separated from the military in 2012 and attended MIT as a Sloan Fellow for Innovation and Global Leadership. Following graduation, Zach stayed on at MIT as a research assistant in support of a multi-year, DoD-funded project Military Psychological Health…
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Mary Sanders
Mary Sanders, LCSW, (She/Her) is a dynamic psychotherapist and fervent social justice advocate, infusing passion into both her clinical endeavors and community initiatives. With over a decade of experience in community mental health, she's provided transformative psychotherapy and clinical case management to BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, veterans, immigrants, refugees, foster youth and families grappling with complex post-traumatic stress disorder, developmental trauma, and various forms…
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Syre Saniyah, Ph.D
As a Black, queer, transmasculine, gender expansive, polyamorous, and kinky healing practitioner Syre (He/Him) is passionate about working with those who are traditionally marginalized/pathologized/othered in society and underrepresented in help seeking environments. Syre practices from a liberation centered intersectional/multi-dimensional feminist perspective with the goal of collaborating with folx toward embodied liberation. Syre is fully invested in living a passion filled and expansive life…
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Stephanie M. Stewart M.D.
Dr. Stephanie Michael Stewart (She/Her/Dr) is a holistic psychiatrist with a spiritual, environmental, and social justice perspective. She trained at Spelman, Morehouse School of Medicine, and served as chief resident in psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Stewart developed and directed the West Central Wellness Center for LA County’s DMH, caring predominantly for people of color. They used culture, community connections, art, nutrition, travel, and other complementary modalities alongside evidence-based…
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Ayyur Sutherland
Ayyur (She/They) is a licensed clinical social worker, who specializes in treating complex trauma with Internal Family Systems, EMDR, Hakomi, and Ketamine-assisted therapy. He currently serves as a Clinical Practice Skills Group Lead for Naropa’s Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy certificate program. Ayyur co-founded Psychedelic Liberation Collective (PLC), a queer and BIPOC-led collective offering psychedelic integration circles, education, and community care. His anti-oppressive facilitation…
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Meredith Thomas
A passionate and committed fundraiser & co-creator of Thank You Life, Meredith (She/Her) is a catalyst for positive change, who deeply believes that broadening access to psychedelic therapy is the most effective, the fastest, the cheapest and most scalable way to address the mental health crisis. Also, Meredith has been on the "plant path" for over 30 years, and has a deep relationship with the plants around her. Whether it is creating a refuge for the pollinators on the land she tends, making…
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Djinn Thompson
Djinn Thompson (She/They) is a woman of transgender experience, a parent of 3 queer and neurodivergent teens, and is an advocate for queer and neurodivergent youth and adults. She obtained a BS in Anthropology from Michigan State University in 2002, and as of the time of the retreat will have just finished her MSW with a certificate in counsel combat veterans from Michigan State. She has been a space holder and activist in the psychedelic movement since the late 1990s, was the host of the…
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Tina Trujillo, PhD
Tina Trujillo (She/Her) is an Associate Professor and Faculty Chair at UC Berkeley’s School of Education, where she has researched and taught about the politics of education; policy analysis; epistemology; and the links among education, democracy, and social justice. Her current interests focus on nature and well-being, as well as scientific, spiritual, and Indigenous ways of knowing. Tina also serves as the Faculty Director of the BCSP Certificate Program, where she conducts ethnographic research…
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Ariel Vegosen
Ariel Vegosen (They/Them) is a professional workshop facilitator, expert in the field of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, writer, educator, performance artist, public speaker, and life-relationship-integration coach. Ariel is the founder of Gender Illumination, Shine Diversity, and cofounder of Gender Blender and Queerdome - queer centered psychedelic harm reduction. For over 20 years Ariel has facilitated trainings, workshops, and retreats for organizations, corporations, nonprofits…
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Courtney Watson
Courtney Watson (She/Her) is a queer Black Mother, lover, and community member in Ohlone Lisjan territory (Oakland, California). She is descended from enslaved Africans stolen from West and Central Africa, Louisiana Chahtah, their white European oppressors and their disappointed Gallic Old Ones. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Sex therapist, and medicine woman studying African and American Indigenous Knowledge Systems…
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Arielle Webb, PhD
Dr. Arielle Webb (They/Them/Theirs) has their PhD in Clinical Psychology with specialized training in diversity, community mental health, LGBTQIA+ psychology, and trauma. They work as an individual, relationship, and group psychotherapist, a clinical supervisor, an educator, and a consultant in both community mental health and private practice. They work relationally from a person-centered, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and social justice lens. Their professional passions include advocating for…
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