Here’s a little bit more about the folks involved…
Pilar Hernández-Wolfe, Ph.D. is a mestiza earth-keeper who blends indigenous and western ways of healing, relationship, and ceremony. She is a descendant of indigenous peoples whose lands were stripped by a papal bull that declared them not human. This left her ancestors with the “Great Forgetting.” She is the living mix of Indigenous and Southern European peoples. She is committed to constructing “Great Remembering” with others and bringing back connection, equity, and reciprocity with all beings.
Pilar is a tenured professor and author, a licensed family therapist and a licensed clinical professional counselor, a clinical member and approved supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and an approved clinical supervisor in Oregon. Pilar has over twenty-five years of experience working with individuals, couples, and families in therapy. Her work on decolonization and mental health integrates Indigenous and Western well-being approaches. She was born and raised in Colombia, South America, where she links closely with indigenous networks and teachings. She is fully bilingual in Spanish and English. Pilar completed the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) MDMA Therapy training and served in the training and equity subcommittees of the Oregon Psilocybin Services advisory board.
Elizabeth Hoke is a mother, artist, and activist who has committed her life to human and environmental advocacy. As someone who experienced challenges with undiagnosed ADHD as a child that led to early substance abuse, she is passionate and committed to helping people who struggle with ADHD and addiction. She works at PNW-ADHD clinic where they provide psychoeducational trainings, workshops and support for the community. Elizabeth is the Clinical Director and supervises interns and trainees at Liberation Institute where they provide therapy for all on a sliding scale. Elizabeth teaches psychedelic education classes and continuing education workshops at Lewis & Clark College. She facilitates support groups for people wanting to integrate psychedelic experiences into their addiction recovery at Portland Psychedelic Society and the Rhizome. Elizabeth also works with Dr. Steve Rosonke at Rainfall Medicine, sitting with patients as they explore their unconscious with a medicine called ketamine. She uses a mix of theoretical tools rooted in somatic psychology and eastern philosophies to empower her clients and community to believe in themselves and realize their potential to positively impact others in hopes that the collective healing created will inspire all to come together to care for the planet and make the world a better place. She helped to create the Weaving Bridges Natural Fellowship Psilocybin Facilitator Training Program and is the the process of receiving her license to become a psilocybin facilitator.
Clement Wilson Fonseca (he/they) is an individual and group facilitator and somatic practitioner who helps guide people to the intersections of sacred solitude and community healing. With a deep understanding that healing is inherently relational, Clement helps individuals navigate their own transformation within their interconnected web of self, community, ecology, and ancestral legacies.
Grounded in the healing potential of expanded states of consciousness, Clement is professionally trained in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, MDMA-Assisted Therapy, and holds a Psilocybin Facilitation license in Oregon. They are especially drawn to supporting those in times of transition, guiding individuals through life’s thresholds with care and intention through somatic attunement, expressive arts, and group healing. Clement helps others bridge the wisdom of peak moments with sustainable, embodied change.
As a transgender man, Clement moves between diverse gendered experiences, offering a perspective that resists binary understandings of selfhood. He weaves this awareness into his practice by deconstructing the self/society divide and exploring how individual healing is intrinsically interconnected with collective transformation.
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Veronica Vargas journeys alongside folks in their path towards healing, harmony, and contentment. She finds beauty in witnessing the unfolding of human potential, and cultivation of meaning. Her formal training is in counseling psychology with an emphasis in depth-psychotherapy and psychospiritual approaches. Holistically working in an approach that examines all aspects of a person's life, including culture, ancestry, dreams, art, fantasies, philosophies, and conscious and unconscious processes. She is inspired and influenced by the work of Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung. In her work as a licensed psychotherapist she assesses the whole person or family system by looking at relational and cultural systems; spirituality; personal and intergenerational trauma; systems of oppression; personal values and how they are or aren't reflected authentically in the person's life.
She has a private practice in Portland, Oregon where she offers psychotherapy, dream work, psychedelic harm reduction and integration.
She’s also a ceremonialist, steward and ally of the natural world.
Lucius Wheeler is an entheogenic facilitator and trainer specializing in group ceremonies and retreats. His ancestors originate from the British Isles, and he currently resides on the traditional homelands of the Wasco people. Informed by his deep explorations of ancestry, decolonization, indigenous traditions, and sacred plant medicines, Lucius is passionately dedicated to co-creating a culture of reciprocity that uplifts all beings and supports the reconnection of humans to the larger web of life through ceremonial practices. Lucius is particularly interested in supporting accessibility through the protected religious and sacramental use of plant medicines.
He has been an initiate of the Santo Daime ayahuasca lineage for over a decade, and brings extensive ceremonial and retreat co-facilitation experience in both North and South America to his work within Oregon’s legal psilocybin framework.
Tyler is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC I), Breathwork Facilitator, and 200-hour Certified Tantra Yoga Teacher. Tyler is a veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which provides him with an intimate understanding of how trauma can impact our body and spirit. Tyler has held previous roles working as a wildland firefighter and park ranger, which brings an ecological perspective to the organic process of human healing.
His clinical experience in mental health includes inpatient behavioral health, intensive addictions, individual counseling, and outpatient behavioral health at a combat trauma clinic. He earned a Master’s in Social Work from the University of New Hampshire and a B.A. from the University of Colorado in Environmental Studies.
Tyler has an orientation toward Transpersonal Psychology, Jungian Psychology, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Psychedelic Integration, and Depth Psychology. He strongly believes in the efficacy of transpersonal practices to provide enduring change in our individual and collective healing. No matter where you are on the journey to wholeness, Tyler’s broad experience allows him to provide individualized and person-centered therapy to meet your unique needs.
Tyler integrates his background in tantra yoga and breathwork into his therapeutic approach, incorporating mindfulness, breathwork, and embodied awareness to deepen healing and transformation. Additionally, his connection to nature and previous work as a firefighter and park ranger inform his belief that natural environments can play a crucial role in emotional and psychological healing.
Mark Henry, LPC
At the core of my being, is a “wellspring” of life that I’m challenged to stay in touch with, that helps me stay engaged and move towards a feeling of wholeness.
In working together, we will co-create pathways to your own “inner healer” by identifying the thoughts, feelings. stories, and patterns that you wish to let go of, moving towards inner-peace.
I’ve spent a quarter century as a Licensed Professional Counselor, now primarily working with Men’s Groups and Psychedelic Facilitation and Integration. My training has been in:
Teaching and training in Psilocybin facilitation;
End of life and Existential issues;
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy;
Internal Family Systems (IFS or Parts work);
Sex Therapy Certification, and Imago Relationship Therapy.
I try to find time to foster my vitality through personal relationships and community service. My “better self” wishes for more time for exercise, time in nature, play with our dog, creative endeavors, reading, and live music.