What Makes Our Referral Circle Unique?
All the professional in our referral circle are graduates of our classes and consultation group or skilled professional we collaborated with. That means we have a relationship with them as humans and practitioners, know their work and modality and see it as aligned with TIC’s integrative psychospiritual approach to the psychedelic experience and its integration.
Our circle offers Health, Psychiatric and psychotherapeutic services for individuals, couples and groups who need support in preparation, navigation and specializing in integration of Entheogenic and psychedelics experiences.
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Briana is a yogi, women's health practitioner and psychedelic integration specialist. She has spent over a decade studying the body through the lenses of modern dance, herbalism, yoga, ayurveda and vegetalismo. Her unified lens sees symptoms and pathology as the soul's way of guiding the body into the conditions that can result in homeostasis or integration. In a session, you will approach the untethered parts of the soul with presence, compassion, and patience, the roots of every vital environment. Briana’s approach to integration is intuitive, vitalistic, and intersectional. She specializes in working with women in the areas of lineage, fertility, womb health, and motherhood.
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Evie is a sensitive soul devoted to breathing the sacred back into this realm through her work as a holistic psychotherapist, ceremonialist, yoga, meditation and breathwork teacher. she believes in the healing of all for all, with no symptom or person excluded from this alchemical process that wants to happen through us, with us and in union with the earth. her offerings are interdimensional and intersectional, attending to all the layers of being: vibrational, emotional, psychological, physiological, relational, societal, ecological and spiritual. evie received her masters in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology from Naropa University and her initial yoga teacher training from Yandara Yoga Institute. she offers all of her work in reverence to her teachers in plant, human and spirit form.
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Dr. Ido Cohen, Psy.D, serves individuals, couples and groups in San Francisco. He received his Psy.D from the California Institute of integral studies and trained at the Jung Institute In San Francisco. He works with early childhood trauma, relationship and intimacy challenges, psychospiritual growth as well as psychedelic integration and preparation education and practice. His doctoral study researched the integration process of Ayahuasca ceremonies, while applying Jungian psychology to better understand how to support individuals in their process of change and transformation. He is the founder of “The Integration Circle” and facilitates workshops on the different dimensions of integration and the intersection of mental health, spiritual health and the entheogenic experience. In his free time he likes to find new paths in nature with his dog Luna, marvel at art, write, create and connect with his community.
Contact: theintegrationcircle@gmail.com
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is a board-certified psychiatrist specializing in psychedelic psychiatry. She obtained her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. While completing her psychiatry residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Dr. Sweigart recognized the limitations of Western psychiatric medications and was called to the transformative power of psychedelics in mental health. She has dedicated the last decade to advancing her understanding and utilization of psychedelic therapies from both a neuropsychopharmacology perspective and a psychospiritual lens.
Dr. Sweigart has presented on psychedelic-assisted therapy at national conferences and published a paper in the Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies. Her passion for the intersection of depth psychology and psychedelics led to further training in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and PRATI’s ketamine-assisted psychotherapy program. She currently has her own private practice and supports individuals to create a holistic and safe mental health container on their path to enhanced well-being and self-discovery. She frequently collaborates with grassroots organizations in her local community and is also available for remote individual and group case-consultation.
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Lee Douglas is a somatic psychotherapist in private practice who specializes in psychedelic integration, psycholytic psychotherapy & nature-based therapy — he is a Licensed Professional Counselor [LPC] in Oregon & Colorado. Lee studied Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy at Naropa University — his experience & interest in plant medicines and intentional community processing spaces began in 2006 in his home state of Colorado. He brings great joy, humility & reverence to the co-creation of individual & group offering.
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Is a board-certified psychiatrist with a private practice in New York City, offering web-based care to residents of New York, New Jersey, and Florida. Her comprehensive services include psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, and psychedelic integration. Dr. Mesrie specializes in personalized medical consultations, harm reduction counseling for psychedelic medicine, and preparation coaching.
Dr. Mesrie studied Neuroscience and Behavior at Columbia University and earned her medical degree from SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, NY. She completed her residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, and received training in psychedelic-assisted therapy and research from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2019. At CIIS, she co-founded the CPTR Alumni Academy, a collaborative platform for graduates focused on psychedelic medicine. Additionally, she participated in The Integration Circle's Plant Medicine and Psychedelic Consultation Group in 2020.
With a particular focus on mood and anxiety disorders, Dr. Mesrie is dedicated to providing comprehensive, empathetic care. She believes in the transformative potential of psychedelic medicines for deep self-exploration and healing within a trusting therapeutic relationship.
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Deanna is a practicing Clinical Counselor, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and instructor in British Columbia, Canada. She also completed a one-year course in Compassionate Inquiry. Over the last decade, Deanna’s primary focus has been to study and work with plant medicines and psychedelics with the intention of healing and spiritual exploration. She has supported many aspects of plant medicine and psychedelic experiences for people from a variety of cultures and backgrounds, both individually and in groups. Her work has included assessment, program design, preparation, retreat
facilitation, group processing, integration therapy, and training healthcare providers in psychedelic harm reduction and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She had the privilege of being introduced to this work through an indigenous context in Peru, where she worked alongside Shipibo indigenous healers at the Temple of the Way of Light for several years. This time expanded a lot of her limited Western concepts of what healing is and could be which she is deeply grateful for.Deanna uses both an embodied focus and the practice of Inquiry in her therapeutic work with clients, supporting them to uncover their own truths and integrating different aspects of experience. Curiosity and compassion are two of the main tools she uses in her therapy practice.
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Is a physician, folk herbalist, and mindfulness teacher in Los Angeles. She offers an integrative approach to support people with their growth and healing. She collaborates with psychotherapists to provide ketamine assisted psychotherapy as part of her holistic practice.
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I am a certified transpersonal psychotherapist (Eurotas) trained in Hakomi body-centered psychotherapy, with expertise in psychedelic integration and crisis intervention. For the past 9 years, I have worked extensively with individuals navigating challenging psychedelic experiences and spiritual emergencies, integrating talk therapy with mindfulness-based approaches throughout the therapeutic process.
As co-founder of Safe Shore, a psychedelic harm reduction initiative, I have supported hundreds of individuals through psychedelic crises at various events and festivals. My practice includes working with those who have experienced trauma or abuse in underground psychedelic therapy settings.
I am a Certified Grof Breathwork Facilitator (Grof Legacy Training – Holos, Czech Republic), hold a Master's in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology (Middlesex University), and serve as Director of the Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Integration certificate program (Impulse-Integrative Clinical Center and Tel-Hai Academic College).
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Rachael is a dedicated professional with a Master’s in Counselling Psychology and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Kelowna, BC, Canada. With a passion for holistic healing, she specializes in trauma-informed therapeutic modalities, drawing from a diverse toolkit that includes Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
With deep respect for sacred medicines, Rachael has trained extensively in the therapeutic use of ketamine, cannabis, psilocybin, and MDMA. She approaches medicine work with reverence, integrity, and a strong commitment to safety, supporting individuals with attunement and care. Passionate about the ethical and intentional use of these medicines, she sees them as powerful allies in healing and transformation.
Beyond individual work, Rachael facilitates group ceremonies, women’s retreats, and integration circles, holding space for profound healing in community settings. She is also the host of Deconstruction Podcast, where she explores the intersections of psychology, spirituality, and relational healing.
Rachael is devoted to relational and somatic healing, trusting in each person’s innate capacity for transformation. Grounded in deep presence and attunement, she supports clients in moving from protection to connection, from fragmentation to wholeness. With expertise in trauma healing, interpersonal neurobiology, and experiential psychotherapy, she offers a deeply engaged process where clients feel seen, met, and empowered to rediscover their inherent aliveness.
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Dana is a somatic psychology counselor focusing on the preparation and integration of journeys with ayahuasca and other master plants. She believes that it is through the life-giving work of integration that we anchor the gifts and growth of expanded states into the fabric of our lives. Sessions are based primarily in the Hakomi method of mindful somatic exploration, and also draw from depth psychology, dreamwork, eco-psychology, and Buddhist & Taoist principles.
A lifelong student of the plants, she is also a ceremonialist and has been apprenticing for 7 years in the Mayantuyacu lineage of vegetalísmo with the Ashaninka teacher Maestro Juan Flores. She offers Zoom sessions as well as in-person sessions in Sebastopol, CA.
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Dr. Joyce Braverman is a Mexican-born physician dedicated to integrative approaches that honor both scientific rigor and ancestral knowledge. She earned her medical degree from Anáhuac University and began her clinical journey as a pediatric surgical oncology assistant, an experience that deeply shaped her understanding of human resilience in the face of illness.
She later served as Director of Medical Research at Med Intelligence, a company focused on personalized medicine, and pursued further studies in mind-body medicine through the Benson-Henry Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital. Certified in Psychedelic Therapies and Research by CIIS, Dr. Braverman explores the clinical applications of consciousness medicine for emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and trauma resolution.
Currently advancing her training in functional medicine, her work focuses on psychoneuroimmunology and the safe, ethical integration of psychedelic-assisted therapy into modern clinical care. She is a member of the Consejo Mexicano de Hongos, contributing to the scientific and cultural study of therapeutic fungi in Mexico.
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