Supporting inner healing for a more connected and compassionate world.
Hey, I’m Sarah.
As a certified Psychedelic Coach, Clinical Herbalist, community builder, and harm reduction educator, my mission is to provide conscious, compassionate support, informed education, and transformational containers for growth, expansion, and connection to be fostered.
I believe that the intentional use of psychedelics combined with coaching and accountability support can catalyze profound transformation - creating a powerful container for accelerating healing, deepening connection to one’s true Self, and unlocking profound inner wisdom.
I have years of experience learning and creating frameworks for how psychedelic-assisted treatments are developed, which I have had the honor to apply with individuals, couples, and groups with astounding efficacy.
Some of the groundbreaking research from the work I have had the honor to participate in has been published here and here.
I am the Executive Director of Psychedelic Society of Asheville (PSA), where I am dedicated to cultivating a vibrant and conscious psychedelic culture, one grounded in education, authentic connection, and community empowerment. I envision a future where our communities can serve as living models for the safe, responsible, and meaningful integration of psychedelics into the fabric of collective life.
Whether you're seeking compassionate support on your personal healing journey or looking to deepen your understanding of expanded states of consciousness, I warmly welcome you to reach out.
How I approach this work.
I practice a whole-person and integrative approach to providing psychedelic support. I am trauma informed, compassion based, and heart centered. My practice is focused on mindfulness and meditation, Internal Family Systems (IFS), clinical herbalism, harm reduction principles, somatic work, tools for nervous system regulation, nature connection, and embodiment practices as integrative tools for moving towards greater health and vitality.
I believe there is an inner healing intelligence that lives within you and is at the heart of what guides this process. It’s that part of you that has the knowledge and power to move towards wholeness. I encourage continued connection to this inner guidance system, to your own Self-energy, as well as mindfulness daily as a tool for ongoing integration of insights gained from psychedelic and non-ordinary states of consciousness.
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Simply put: psychedelic experiences can be transformational. They can have a profound impact on your life, your awareness, your sense of identity and overall worldview. It can help to have someone who is familiar with the psychedelic experience that can guide and support you through this powerful and often revelatory process.
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Bachelor of Arts, Ecopsychology, Prescott College, 2013
Certified Transformational Recovery and Psycho-Spiritual Integration Coach, Being True To You, 2019
300+ hours of Psychedelic Guiding and Integration Coaching, Mindbloom, largest virtual ketamine clinic in the world, 2020-2022
Co-founder of GroupKAP - co-creator of an emergent model for in-person group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) experiences, 2022-current
Executive Director, Psychedelic Society of Asheville, Asheville’s home for psychedelic culture, support & community, 2022current
Tripsitters Trained, 2020
Psychedelic Facilitator, Psychedelic Passage, the first network comprised of trained psychedelic facilitators, 2022-2024
IFS + Psychedelics with Dr. Richard Schwartz, Robert Falconer, Michael Mithoefer & Robert Grant at Life Architect, 2021
Foundations of Western Herbalism, an 8-month immersive herbal certification program, Milagro School of Herbal Medicine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2018
Permaculture Design Certified, Ashevillage, 2016
1,000+ hours of professional consultations and practice in herbal therapeutics, botanical mixology, and product development
800+ hours of workshops, conferences, courses, and festivals exploring intersections of psychedelics, science, ecology, herbalism, art, culture, and spirituality
Produced 40+ psychedelic related community based events
10 years+ Vipassana Buddhist Meditation and Mindfulness Practice
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence-based modality that is at the forefront of a collaborative therapeutic approach. IFS strongly complements psychedelic therapies and relies on a person's intuitive wisdom.
IFS is currently being implemented in the MAPS MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy model for the treatment of PTSD with tremendous success.
It is very clear that IFS has an important role to play in the psychedelic experience due to the medicines ability to help people face painful experiences often with more clarity and compassion, and by unblending from those parts while increasing access to “Self-energy,” or our inner healing intelligence.
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Ecopsychology is an emerging form of therapy or coaching that expands the traditional scope of treatment to include the human-nature relationship.
I believe that having a relationship to the natural world is essential to a person’s existential sense of well-being. The disconnection that modern humans have created between themselves and the more than human world is illusory and serves to keep our sense of self much smaller then it actually is.
My practice takes into account our origins and deep rootedness in the natural world. It considers the latest scientific research on the mental and physical health benefits of developing a relationship with nature, and offers a wilderness retreat space and a homecoming practice to rekindle this ancient connection that we all share with our extraordinary planet.
At a time of such environmental crisis, the impact of living in a culture that has separated itself from the rest of life on earth has a truly devastating impact on the body, psyche, and soul of the world. Feeling grief, anxiety, and depression are all very natural responses to what it means to be alive at a time of such great imbalance. A profound maturation of an ecological consciousness is called for if we are to co-exist in any sort of cooperative and reciprocal way with our world.
Having earned my BA in Ecopsychology from Prescott College, my work supports others in reclaiming a connection to the natural world and considers psychedelic states to be a catalyst for enhancing our sense of relatedness, curiosity, and belonging towards our planet.
“Direct sensorial experiences with the phenomenon of nature constitute a foundational source of knowledge, joy, and a full realization of human potential.” Patricia H. Hasbach
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I am based in the Asheville, North Carolina area and provide services throughout Buncombe County and the greater Western North Carolina region, including:
Avery Creek, Barnardsville, Bent Creek, Black Mountain, Biltmore Forest, Boone, Brevard, Burnsville, Candler, Canton, Fairview, Fletcher, Hendersonville, Hickory, Marion, Morganton, Montreat, Rutherfordton, Spruce Pine, Swannanoa, Sylva, Waynesville, Weaverville, and Woodfin.
I am also available to travel throughout the United States for in-person support, with travel and accommodation expenses covered. Please connect with me if you’d like to discuss the possibility of working together.
